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Microsoft Fabric

Adopt A Product Mindset To Maximise Value From Microsoft Fabric
In this post I describe how adopting a product mindset will help you to extract maximum value from Microsoft Fabric.

Exploring Strategies Enabled By Microsoft Fabric
In this post I provide an overview of how to build situational awareness and to use that to understand the strategic opportunities that are enabled by Microsoft Fabric.

Developing a Data Mesh Inspired Vision Using Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric, influenced by Data Mesh, offers a solid choice for organizations seeking a data-driven strategy. This article will help you assess how to approach a Data Mesh inspired vision using Microsoft Fabric.

How Does Microsoft Fabric Measure Up To Data Mesh?
Data Mesh is the latest approach for delivering data-driven value at scale. Microsoft Fabric has been heavily influenced by Data Mesh, but there are gaps that you will need to address in areas such as data product marketplace, developing standards, master data management, and federated computational governance.

Microsoft Fabric Is A Socio-Technical Endeavour
Creating a successful organisation-wide data and analytics platform isn't just about architecture, schemas and semantic models. It's also about culture, organisational design and people. This blog explores the socio-technical nature of data and analytics and how this should influence your approach to adoption of Microsoft Fabric.

Copilot - Are You Ready to Unleash the Power of AI in Self Service Analytics?
In the ever-evolving landscape of data and analytics, the advent of AI-powered capabilities has opened up exciting possibilities for self service reporting. Tools like Copilot in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric offer users the ability to extract insights from data using natural language prompts. It's an enticing prospect, where anyone can explore, visualize, and analyze data without being constrained by pre-canned reports or relying on data engineering teams. However, as we start to embrace these new capabilities, it's essential to strike a balance between the potential benefits and potential pitfalls.

Microsoft Fabric: Announced
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?
Explore OneLake, Microsoft Fabric's core storage for data in Azure & other clouds. Discover its role in Fabric workloads, the OneDrive equivalent for data storage.

Azure Synapse Analytics versus Microsoft Fabric: A Side by Side Comparison
In this post we compare Azure Synapse Analytics with Microsoft Fabric to understand how features map from Synapse to Fabric.

Intro to Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric unifies data & analytics, building on Azure Synapse Analytics for improved data-level interoperability. Explore its offerings & pros/cons.