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Microsoft Fabric unifies Power BI, Data Factory and the next generation of Azure Synapse Analytics into a SaaS platform to democratize data and AI across organisations.

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Microsoft Fabric: Adopt, Trial, Assess, Hold?

Azure Radar

Read our high-level Azure Radar assessment of Microsoft Fabric; its pros & cons, how it differs from Azure Synapse, and why we classify it as "assess".

Perspectives on Microsoft Fabric

We've been on the private preview for Microsoft Fabric since late 2022, and have put the platform through its paces using real-world data and scenarios. In this 20 minute chat, Microsoft MVP Ian Griffiths interviews Barry Smart, Director of Data & AI, and Ed Freeman, Senior Data Engineer, about their experiences of this new unified data platform.

A Tour Around Microsoft Fabric

In this video, Senior Data Engineer Ed Freeman takes a tour around Microsoft Fabric, highlighting OneLake, and the Synapse Data Engineering and Synapse Data Science experiences.

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Endjin were involved in the Microsoft Fabric Private Preview and have been using the platform since late 2022. We've been recording all our thoughts and opinions so that we could share them as soon as it was announced publicly.

Microsoft Fabric: Announced

Microsoft Fabric: Announced

Ed Freeman

Microsoft Fabric extends the promise of Azure Synapse integration to all analytics workloads from the data engineer to the business knowledge worker. It brings together Power BI, Data Factory, and the Data Lake, on a new generation of the Synapse data infrastructure. Delivered as a unified SaaS offering, it aims to reduce cost and time to value, while enabling new "citizen data science" capabilities. Check out all the resources from the endjin team collated in this post.
What is OneLake?

What is OneLake?

Ed Freeman

OneLake is the core of Microsoft Fabric - it is essentially the storage account for all of your data utilized within Fabric, be that within Azure or from another cloud (through Shortcuts). As the name suggests, it is a single, logical data lake backing more or less all of your Fabric workloads. For fans of analogies: you'll have probably heard Microsoft use the tag-line "OneLake is to data what OneDrive is to files/documents". Read this blog to dive deeper into OneLake and learn about why you should be excited.
Azure Synapse Analytics versus Microsoft Fabric: A Side by Side Comparison

Azure Synapse Analytics versus Microsoft Fabric: A Side by Side Comparison

Barry Smart

In this post we compare Azure Synapse Analytics with Microsoft Fabric to understand how features map from Synapse to Fabric.
Intro to Microsoft Fabric

Intro to Microsoft Fabric

Ed Freeman

Microsoft Fabric is a unified data & analytics platform that brings together, and improves upon, Microsoft's existing suite of data products. It can be thought of as the third generation of Microsoft data platforms, where first generation (e.g. HDInsight, SQL Data Warehouse) were somewhat isolated takes on traditional data products; second generation was Azure Synapse Analytics, which integrated platforms at a UX level but still felt a little disjointed at the data level; and now we have Microsoft Fabric which builds upon the Synapse "unification" vision, with a particular focus on enabling deep data-level interoperability. In this post we introduce its core offerings, as well as weigh up the pros and cons of this new product.