Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end analytics platform designed to streamline data management and analytics for businesses. It combines various tools and services into one single solution, making it easier for your organisation to harness their data effectively.
Microsoft Fabric makes it easier for data professionals to work together on projects, removing the need to access multiple systems and enhancing collaboration between staff.
Benefits for Business:
Unified Platform: Microsoft Fabric integrates multiple analytics tools, including Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI, into one cohesive platform. This eliminates the need for businesses to juggle different services from various vendors.
Lake-Centric Architecture: It has a built-in data lake called OneLake, which allows the organisation to store and manage data in a centralised location. This reduces data duplication and simplifies data governance. Think of it like OneDrive for data!
AI Integration: It is infused with AI capabilities, enabling users to leverage generative AI for data analysis, report generation, and even building machine learning models using natural language prompts. It links Azure features to Copilot to enable queries to be answered, e.g.’How many countries have sold more than…’ providing a filtered and concise set of results from the data held.
Enhanced Collaboration: By providing a unified experience, Fabric fosters collaboration among business users, data engineers and analysts, allowing everyone to work towards shared goals more efficiently.
Cost Efficiency: With a single pool of resources for all workloads, businesses can simplify billing and reduce costs associated with managing multiple services.
Improved Data Insights: The platform enables real-time analytics and visualisation, helping the organisation make data-driven decisions quickly. Users can easily access insights through familiar Microsoft 365 applications such as Excel and Teams.
Scalability and Performance: Microsoft Fabric is designed to scale with the growing data needs of an organisation, ensuring that high performance is maintained even as data volumes increase.
Simplified Data Management: The platform streamlines data integration and governance, making it easier for businesses to manage the data landscape without the complexity of disparate systems.
Data Security: Robust set of security tools that protect data both in rest and in transit – encryption by default. Ongoing security updates and threat monitoring, ensuring compliance with various regulations. Also, governance tools are included, which track data lineage, apply information protection labels and implement data loss prevention strategies.