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Data marts, warehouses, lakes, whatever the name, the pattern of consolidating data across an enterprise for comprehensive analytics is a familiar one. Every enterprise has many data sources, some operational, some analytics, some telemetry, and bringing them together has always been a challenge. Cleaning the data, curating for consistency, exploring, doing data science, building reports, monitoring, is another series of challenges in bringing a range of tools to bear on the data, thanks to diverse data formats and tooling. With Gen AI, the requirements (e.g., vector indexing for RAG) and potential value of the data have both gone up. And the pressure to ensure right use of the data, to comply to a broad range of regulations, to secure the data has never been higher. We believe the time has come to come together around open data standards to ensure that data is easy to consolidate and easy to plug into a wide variety of tools, all in a properly governed way. Josh and I describe the approach we are taking at Microsoft with Fabric and Purview. We are building on open Parquet-based updatable table formats such as Delta, Iceberg and Hudi, and interop across them with XTable. We are making it easy to consolidate data with mechanisms like mirroring and shortcuts. Ultimately, users should be able to use their tool of choice for a given task with the least friction.

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🚀 Big Day for Microsoft Fabric! 🚀 So many updates have just rolled out that it’s going to take me at least 5 hours just to absorb everything! 📚 Microsoft is truly pushing the boundaries with what Fabric can do, and the new features are leaving everyone stunned. The data landscape is evolving faster than ever, and it's an exciting time to be in this space! Time to dive deep and explore these groundbreaking updates. 💡 Special thanks to Alex Powers for his detailed post on LinkedIn, which has all the updates summarized in one place! 🙌 #MicrosoftFabric #TechUpdates #DataRevolution #Innovation #Microsoft

Microsoft Fabric revolutionizes data management by ushering it into the era of AI. By consolidating all data and analytics tools into a unified stack, Fabric streamlines your data estate. OneLake, Fabric's data lake, enables seamless connection of data from any cloud or database without duplication. Teams leverage a single data copy across various engines and formats, cutting integration costs. AI-driven tools like Copilot further boost productivity. Fabric empowers organizations to make informed decisions and achieve significant impact through intelligent insights. #MicrosoftFabric #DataManagement #AI #Analytics https://lnkd.in/g6crDTHj

Microsoft Build. Many AI and Copilots inside. “At Microsoft Build 2024, CEO Satya Nadella discusses with developers the company’s strategy to add AI throughout its product lineup, from the cloud to the desktop PC. In addition, Nadella talks about its recent partnerships with Nvidia and AMD.”

🚀 Delighted to have earned the "Exploring Eventstream in Microsoft Fabric" badge! 💡 This immersive journey delves deep into the essentials of Eventstream within Microsoft Fabric, unveiling its pivotal role in publishing and consuming events in distributed systems. With Azure Service Fabric's innate support for Eventstreams, I've gained hands-on experience in crafting and leveraging Eventstream components within applications. The interactive lab provided invaluable practice, especially in tandem with KQL Database integration. Excited to implement robust event-driven architectures! #MicrosoftFabric #RealTimeAnalytics #KQL #Microsoft #Fabric #Eventstream #ContinuousLearning 🌟 MandelBulb Technologies Microsoft Fabric

#MSBuild is live right now: I am summarizing the main announcements related to Microsoft Fabric that ate being announced live right now. The level of updates that is happening today on Fabric is unprecedented! +11k Customers are already using Microsoft Fabric. - Copilot in Microsoft Fabric is now GA. - New Copilot in Fabric for Real Time Intelligence (Preview). - Unprecedent updates in Real-Time Analytics with Real-Time Intelligence and Real time Hub. - You will soon be able to access Azure Databricks Unity Catalog tables directly on Microsoft Fabric. - Capabilities to access multiple sources in Fabric with a single query AI call using GraphQL and user data functions in Fabric.  - Preview of Data Workflows within Data Factory experience. - Use AI for custom Q&A Experiences. - Fabric is all about Data Democratization, new Partnership with Snowflake. We are excited to announce future support for Apache Iceberg in Fabric OneLake and bi-directional data access between Snowflake and Fabric. - Ability to federate Enterprise data from Adobe Experience Platform and Adobe Campaign on Fabric. Let me know if you have questions, you can also read the full blog post from Arun Ulag: https://lnkd.in/dRGWymCQ #Fabric #Snowflake #Data #AI #AWS #GCP #GoogleBigQuery #AI #GPT4o #OpenAI

#MicrosoftFabric is the coolest thing to happen to Microsoft data in a long time. It pulls together the best of Microsoft technology into a unified platform. If you’re a mid-market organization, get excited. Fabric helps you go from data to insights to actions quicker and more efficiently.

Solid article on what's coming up for Microsoft!