As data volumes increase, so does the need to embrace AI-led data analytics tools. Using AI to interpret data can help businesses extract deeper insights, make decisions based on accurate predictions, and enhance their overall agility and competitiveness.
Despite this, many organisations are still operating with a diverse mix of analytics tools, and are hamstrung by complex, siloed data. This limits their capacity to extract meaningful insights and support organisation-wide decision-making.
Microsoft Fabric (Fabric) is a new, unified, AI-powered SaaS platform that is redefining how organisations think about data analytics.
This complete analytics platform brings together a raft of capabilities from across the Microsoft suite—including Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI. It also includes seven core workloads which target specific personas and related tasks, all under a single architecture.
Here are four important reasons why you should consider Fabric for your business’ data analytics.
1. More effectively govern and protect data
Fabric offers a superior way to manage and protect your data, with end-to-end, built-in governance and security capabilities. Microsoft is also expanding these capabilities through tighter integration with Microsoft Purview—helping businesses 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 Catalogue.
2. Seamlessly connect data sources
OneLake, Fabric’s multi-cloud data lake, can help your business simplify data management and reduce data duplication with Shortcuts and Mirroring, a new data replication 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. It also keeps the replica in sync in near real-time.
3. Empower every business user to work with data
Fabric can help you foster a data culture by ensuring everyone can access insights and work confidently with data.
By integrating with the applications that people use every day, like Microsoft 365, Fabric enables anyone within your organisation to easily and securely use data to improve decision-making. Business users can also work even closer with data, thanks to capabilities like Copilot for Power BI in Microsoft Fabric, Explore, and an expanded Direct Lake mode.
4. Prepare your data for game-changing AI integration
With Fabric, your organisation can build a future-ready foundation for powerful, AI-led data analytics.
Microsoft has already rolled-out Copilot in Fabric across a range of workloads: Power BI, Data Factory, Data Science, and Data Engineering.
Microsoft will continue to introduce AI capabilities that help users enrich, model, analyse, and explore their data in more effective ways.
Why implement Fabric with DWC?
Dear Watson Consulting is a highly experienced Microsoft partner, focused on AI and data. Specialising in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, we help you break down data silos and accelerate your data analytics with AI. Our dedicated team of expert consultants and data engineers is here to support you at every step.
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