Updated: July 13, 2023 (June 5, 2023)

Microsoft Fabric: A Straight Answer and Roadmap

Andrew analyzes and writes about Microsoft's data management, business intelligence, and machine learning solutions, as well as aspects of licensing... more

Microsoft Fabric is a data analytics cloud service based on existing services.
It improves collaboration and data sharing and reduces the complexity of deployment and management.
It is a SaaS offering, providing quick deployment and capacity-based licensing to control cost.
Most of the service is in public preview; however, key components are still missing.

Microsoft Fabric is a new data analytics offering based on several existing Azure services and Power BI. The benefit of Fabric is it preserves the capabilities of the individual services but brings them together with new collaboration and data sharing options. It also unifies back-end management and security, which can reduce complexity and cost, improve security and compliance, and speed deployment. (For a detailed description of Fabric components, see the illustration “Microsoft Fabric Components: A Technical Overview“.)

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