The world is awash with data, and over the past year, we have all seen how AI has the potential to completely transform our day-to-day businesses. There is growing demand to harness the power of generative AI experiences, but doing so requires a clean data estate and can be chaotic with diverse technology stacks, fragmented teams, and silos everywhere.
Earlier this year at Microsoft Build, Microsoft introduced Microsoft Fabric in public preview – a new, unified SaaS platform that combines all the capabilities from Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI. Fabric is a complete analytics platform with seven core workloads targeting specific personas and related tasks, all under a single architecture. These capabilities will empower System Integrator (SI) partners and solution builders to simplify and unify customers’ data estates in a more secure, compliant, and cost-effective manner.
The partner opportunity with Microsoft Fabric
Last week, Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Fabric for purchase. Partners can read more about the latest product features and integrations in the blog announcement by Arun Ulag, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data.
Fabric provides a comprehensive analytics platform for us to help customers:
Govern and protect data: Fabric helps customers manage and protect their data more effectively with end-to-end, built-in governance and security capabilities. And now, Microsoft are expanding these capabilities through tighter integration with Microsoft Purview–helping our customers get end-to-end visibility and protection across their data estate. Users can now manually apply familiar Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels to sensitive Fabric data, as well as browse and search their Fabric and other assets across their data estate in Microsoft Purview Data Catalog.
Seamlessly connect data sources: OneLake, Fabric’s multi-cloud data lake, can help customers simplify data management and reduce data duplication with Shortcuts and Mirroring, a new data replicated capability. Mirroring allows frictionless access and management of existing cloud data warehouses and databases by giving a snapshot of the source database in the Fabric experience and keeping the replica in sync in near real-time.
Empower every business user to work with data: Microsoft Fabric can help customers foster a data culture by ensuring everyone can access insights and work with data. By integrating with the applications that people use every day like Microsoft 365, Fabric enables anyone within an organization to easily and securely use data to improve decision-making. And now, business users can work even closer with data with capabilities like Copilot for Power BI in Microsoft Fabric, Explore, and an expanded Direct Lake mode.
Prepare data for game-changing AI integration: Copilot in Microsoft Fabric is now rolling out into public preview, starting with Power BI, Data Factory, Data Science, and Data Engineering workloads to help every data professional get more done, faster. Microsoft will continue to roll out AI capabilities that help users enrich, model, analyze, and explore their data.
This is a rich opportunity for us all to bring customer data into the era of AI with Fabric by building comprehensive analytics solutions, leveraging personally optimized experiences to enhance productivity, and transforming insight into action to create meaningful value for our customers.
If you’re ready to take your business to the new era of AI with Microsoft Fabric, give us a call now. David Blumentals, Director, Dynamics 365 Practice, David@d365.Global, +61 409 245 354. Microsoft Fabric for lawyers, legal AI.
