Introducing Microsoft Fabric

This week at Microsoft Build, we announced the future.

With an introduction like that, I should probably remind everyone that this is my personal blog, my personal perspective, and my personal opinions. Although I am a Microsoft employee, I am not speaking for or otherwise representing my employer with this post or anything else on this blog.

With that disclaimer out of the way, let’s get back to the future. Let’s get back to Microsoft Fabric.

According to the official documentation, „Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics solution for enterprises that covers everything from data movement to data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence.“ Fabric is implemented as a SaaS service for all sorts of data, analytics, and BI capabilities, including:

• Data integration
• Business intelligence
• Synapse data engineering
• Data warehousing
• Data science
• Real-time analytics

I’ve been working on Fabric for around 18 months^[1], and I could not…