Fundamentals of Microsoft Fabric

Foreword

In this new era of generative AI, every organization is racing to figure out how to make its teams more productive, to empower its customers, and to reinvent business processes. Data is the fuel that powers AI—now, more than ever, it is critical to ensure that organizational data is accessible, structured, and ready for AI. This is where Microsoft Fabric comes in, making it easier than ever for data teams to land their data in one place, collaborate across this data, and get it in a state where it can be served to the business so that they can make better decisions.

The vision of Microsoft Fabric revolves around three main pillars.

Fabric is an end-to-end data platform.

Data is a team sport. To get a solution up and running takes collaboration among many people with different skills. Before Fabric, these solutions required numerous products to get the job done. This often meant moving data from one product to another; manually integrating these offerings; and managing governance, cost, and usage independently. With Microsoft Fabric, a data team can leverage everything—data integration, data engineering, data warehousing, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence—in a shared workspace, with unified development processes and easy adoption. Because Fabric is built as a SaaS platform, it is easy for users to get started, for teams to collaborate in the product, and for administrators to centrally manage security and governance. Copilot is built into all ...