Microsoft Fabric
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Key Features
A complete analytics platform
Each analytics project depends on several supporting systems. These supporting systems often have a unique set of requirements and often require input from several other vendors. Integrating the different products of these vendors can be a difficult, fragile, and expensive task.
Here’s where Microsoft Fabric comes into play.
Microsoft Fabric alleviates this problem by providing teams with a single solution that offers a uniform user interface, architecture, and a variety of other tools necessary for insights to be extracted from data and presented.
Lake-centric and open
Data lakes are often messy and complex, which makes building, integrating, and managing them an extremely challenging endeavor. There’s also the issue of data duplication and vendor lock-in that arises once the data lake is operational; this stems from using multiple data products that employ various proprietary data formats on the same data lake.
Fabric solves this problem by introducing a built-in software as a service (SaaS), multi-cloud data lake called “OneLake.” Similarly to how all Microsoft 365 applications are automatically hooked into OneDrive, the entirety of Fabric’s workloads are wired into OneLake.
The built-in integration of OneLake helps to remove ubiquitous and disorganized data silos, which arise when team members configure their own segregated storage accounts. OneLake offers the entire team a single, unified storage unit that makes discovering and sharing data simple.
Empowerment for all business users
Teams within an organization aspire to drive a data-driven culture when everyone is empowered to make better decisions using data. Microsoft Fabric helps to foster this culture by making analytics accessible to all. More specifically, Fabric is deeply integrated with the typical, everyday Microsoft 365 applications. This makes it possible to convert your Microsoft 365 applications into a focal point for uncovering and applying insights.
Artificial intelligence
Azure’s OpenAI service is integrated into Microsoft Fabric at every layer to help users unlock the full potential of their data. This integration also enables developers to apply the power of generative AI to customer data and help business users on their quest to discover insights in data.
Since Copilot is integrated into every Microsoft Fabric data experience, users can utilize conversational language to:
- Build machine learning models
- Develop dataflows and data pipelines
- Generate code and entire functions
- Visualize results
It’s even possible for users to create their own custom conversational language experiences that combine their data with Azure OpenAI Service models and then publish them as plug-ins.
Cost reduction through unified capacities
When various products from multiple vendors are combined in a single project, there’s typically significant wastage. This is due to computing capacity being provisioned in multiple systems, such as data engineering, data warehousing, and business intelligence. The moment one of these systems is idle, its capacity cannot be utilized by another system, which means resources are being wasted.
Fabric alleviates this problem by reducing the complexity of purchasing and managing resources. With Fabric, it’s possible to purchase a single pool of compute to power all workloads (e.g., data integration, data science, etc.). This all-inclusive model significantly reduces costs since any unused compute resources in a workload may be utilized by any of the workloads.
