Microsoft Fabric is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) analytics platform designed to streamline the data analytics process from data ingestion to business intelligence and actionable insights. It aims to reduce fragmentation and complexity within the analytics domain, integrating Azure and open-source capabilities like Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Apache Spark, and Delta Lake within its Power BI ecosystem.
Key components of Microsoft Fabric include Data Engineering, Data Factory, Data Science, Data Warehouse, Real-Time Analytics, and Power BI. This offers a unified analytics platform to help organizations navigate from data to insights efficiently, addressing the challenges of complex architectures, data fragmentation, extensive integration needs, security management, and complex cost management.
Microsoft Fabric presents numerous advantages including a low-code/no-code platform, the capability to handle any volume or format of data, simplified architecture, and pervasive security and governance. It also offers a unified analytics platform (OneLake), allowing the entire organization to use a single logical lake and a single copy of data.
OneLake provides a unified data storage format, eliminating the need for ETL jobs into the data warehouse, and managing data loads into the Power BI data set. It optimizes data performance and management, offering significant cost reduction, latency reduction, and enhanced data access and security. Microsoft Fabric is integrated with popular Microsoft products such as Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint, empowering end users and democratizing analytics within organizations.
The goal of Microsoft Fabric is to create an analytics platform that enables end-to-end analytics as a Software-as-a-Service offering, enabling better integration with other services, making data more accessible to business users, and using AI to increase productivity.
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