Introduction to Microsoft Fabric!
Microsoft Fabric is an AI-powered platform that aims to reshape the way organizations access, manage, and act upon their data. It is designed to connect every data source and analytics service together on a single platform, streamlining the process of data analysis and decision-making.
All Your Data, All Your Teams, All in One Place
Microsoft Fabric serves as a unified hub, allowing data engineers to connect and curate data from various sources. This helps in eliminating data sprawl and provides custom views for everyone.
Manage Powerful AI Models
The platform offers the ability to develop AI models on a single foundation without moving data. This reduces the time required by data scientists to deliver value.
Empower Everyone in Your Business
Microsoft Fabric helps to innovate faster by enabling every person in your organization to act on insights directly from Microsoft 365 apps, such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Teams.
Govern Data Across Your Organization
The platform ensures responsible data governance, providing data stewards with additional control through built-in security, governance, and compliance features.
Simplify Analytics for Everyone
Microsoft Fabric equips your entire organization with self-service analytics tools, helping everyone manage and analyze data for actionable insights.
Align Your Team with a Single Source of Truth
The platform serves as a single, centralized repository for all data, simplifying access and enhancing consistency across the organization.
Support Data Analytics Across Your Organization
Microsoft Fabric provides each role with a suite of personalized analytics tools, helping them generate real-time insights independently.
Uncover New Insights with Copilot Capabilities
Microsoft Fabric's upcoming features include Copilot capabilities, which use AI to interpret data and create Azure OpenAI experiences.
Consolidate Your Data Analytics Services
The platform connects your essential clouds and analytics services to an open, governed, and scalable foundation, consolidating your data analytics services.
In summary, Microsoft Fabric is a comprehensive data management and analytics platform designed to revolutionize the way organizations handle their data and insights, accelerating innovation and collaboration.
Do you want to try this yourself hands-on?
| Tutorial name | Scenario |
|---|---|
| Lakehouse | In this tutorial, you ingest, transform, and load the data of a fictional retail company, Wide World Importers, into the lakehouse and analyze sales data across various dimensions. |
| Data Science | In this tutorial, you explore, clean, and transform a taxicab trip dataset, and build a machine learning model to predict trip duration at scale on a large dataset. |
| Real-Time Analytics | In this tutorial, you use the streaming and query capabilities of Real-Time Analytics to analyze the New York Yellow Taxi trip dataset. You uncover essential insights into trip statistics, taxi demand across the boroughs of New York, and other related insights. |
| Data warehouse | In this tutorial, you build an end-to-end data warehouse for the fictional Wide World Importers company. You ingest data into data warehouse, transform it using T-SQL and pipelines, run queries, and build reports. |
