Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric is a complete analytics platform for businesses. It brings together data movement, processing, ingestion, transformation, real-time event handling, and report creation. It includes services like Data Engineering, Data Factory, Data Science, Real-Time Intelligence, Data Warehouse, and Databases.

What Is Microsoft Fabric?

Fabric combines tools like Data Engineering, Data Factory, Data Science, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Intelligence, Industry solutions, Databases, and Power BI into one easy-to-use SaaS platform. Each tool is designed for specific roles, such as data engineers, scientists, or warehouse experts, to handle specific tasks.

Benefits of Fabric include:

  • Fully integrated analytics from start to finish

  • Consistent and simple user experience

  • Easy access and reuse of all resources

  • Unified data lake that keeps data in its original place

  • AI-powered features to speed up data work

  • Centralized management and control

Fabric also manages data discovery, permissions, and sensitivity labels automatically across all tools using Purview. This integration lets users focus on their work without worrying about the technical setup.

Power BI

Power BI lets you easily connect to your data sources, visualize and discover what's important, and share that with anyone or everyone you want. This integrated experience allows business owners to access all data in Fabric quickly and intuitively and to make better decisions with data.

Databases

Databases in Microsoft Fabric are a developer-friendly transactional database such as Azure SQL Database, which allows you to easily create your operational database in Fabric. Using the mirroring capability, you can bring data from various systems together into OneLake.

Data Factory

Data Factory provides a modern data integration experience to ingest, prepare, and transform data from a rich set of data sources. It incorporates the simplicity of Power Query, and you can use more than 200 native connectors to connect to data sources on-premises and in the cloud.

Industry Solutions

Fabric provides industry-specific data solutions that address unique industry needs and challenges, and include data management, analytics, and decision-making.

Real-Time Intelligence

Real-time Intelligence is an end-to-end solution for event-driven scenarios, streaming data, and data logs. It enables the extraction of insights, visualization, and action on data in motion by handling data ingestion, transformation, storage, analytics, visualization, tracking, AI, and real-time actions.

Data Engineering

Fabric Data Engineering provides a Spark platform with great authoring experiences. It enables you to create, manage, and optimize infrastructures for collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing vast data volumes. Fabric Spark's integration with Data Factory allows you to schedule and orchestrate notebooks and Spark jobs.

Data Science

Fabric Data Science enables you to build, deploy, and operationalize machine learning models from Fabric. It integrates with Azure Machine Learning to provide built-in experiment tracking and model registry. Data scientists can enrich organizational data with predictions and business analysts can integrate those predictions into their BI reports, allowing a shift from descriptive to predictive insights.

Data Warehouse

Fabric Data Warehouse provides industry leading SQL performance and scale. It separates compute from storage, enabling independent scaling of both components. Additionally, it natively stores data in the open Delta Lake format.