Welcome to the Microsoft Fabric blog
Data is the driving force of organizations around the world. Over the past few decades, businesses have been collecting and storing massive amounts of data from apps, services, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, and more. Managing and extracting value from data is essential for organizations of all kinds to survive and thrive, but harnessing transformative value from data is extremely challenging. Siloed data can get out of sync, making a single source of truth difficult to maintain and leading to potentially inconsistent reporting and misinterpreted insights. Integration can be time consuming, costly, and resource intensive. All of which can stifle growth and possibilities.
To help overcome these challenges, we introduced Microsoft Fabric in early 2023.
The Microsoft Fabric blog channel
Microsoft Fabric delivers an integrated and streamlined software as a service (SaaS) experience for all analytics workloads and data teams on an enterprise grade data foundation. It enables persistent data governance and a single capacity pricing model that scales with your growth—and it’s open at every layer with no proprietary lock-ins. With a single, unified platform, the effort of managing an integrated analytics service, including governance, security, and billing, is reduced and simplified.
In this new blog channel, we’ll address topics that help you navigate the world of analytics. Expect to see thought leadership content, customer and partner case studies, best practices, Fabric product announcements, and more.
Can’t wait to get started? Join us at Microsoft Ignite.
Experience AI transformation in action at Microsoft Ignite
At Microsoft Ignite 2023, experience AI transformation in action with Fabric. Discover the latest technology, advance your skills, and find solutions to your technical roadblocks. Learn how to create more value from your data by leveraging Fabric and AI solutions, while effectively integrating and managing your data estate. The in-person event is sold out, but you can still register to join us online on November 15 and 16, 2023 to learn from experts in the industry across keynotes, sessions, breakouts, and more.
And no surprise, Ignite will also be the place to learn how Fabric addresses core analytics workloads by combining the best of Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Factory.
Harness your data estate for the era of AI
Microsoft Fabric session catalog
Learn moreWith dozens of sessions covering Fabric, Ignite will help you understand how to harness your data estate to deliver powerful AI applications. It all kicks off with Jessica Hawk, Arun Ulagaratchagan, and Amir Netz delivering the Make your data AI ready with Fabric and Azure Databricks session. You’ll learn how to unlock value and prepare your data for the era of AI with Fabric and Azure Databricks. Join this demo-heavy session where we’ll show how Fabric enables data governance while integrating Power BI, Data Factory, and the next generation of Synapse to offer users a modern, price performant analytics solution.
Don’t miss additional breakout sessions and discussions to continue your learning, including:
- Build ISV apps with Microsoft Fabric in the Intelligent Data Platform with Dipti Borkar.
- Learn how to accelerate your application development and increase your appeal with Fabric customers by building your apps in the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform.
- Unify your data across domains, clouds, and engines in OneLake with Joshua Caplan, Priya Sathy, and Amir Netz.
- Learn how to use OneLake to unify your data across clouds, accounts, and engines faster and more efficiently than ever before, including data in Azure Databricks. No matter where your data is, OneLake can accelerate your data potential.
- Build powerful AI apps with Copilot in Microsoft Fabric with Justyna Lucznik and Nellie Gustafsson.
- Build new analytics and AI models and increase developer productivity with Copilot in Fabric. Learn how to empower your data scientists and data analysts by bridging the world of business intelligence and AI. Democratize AI to increase collaboration between data and machine learning professionals.
- Migrating your data estate to Fabric and getting started Q&A with Justyna Lucznik, Priya Sathy, Wee Hyong Tok, and Amir Netz.
- Not sure where to get started? Join our product experts to ask questions and get answers to common questions like how to migrate to Fabric from Synapse and start proofs of concept with departments where you want to gain traction quickly.
Don’t delay—register for Microsoft Ignite today and bookmark the Fabric blog for future announcements, updates, and insights.
- If you are unable to attend Ignite 2023 live, these sessions will be available on-demand after the event to registered attendees
