Microsoft Fabric The Essential Guide For Decision Makers
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Accelerate business value with Microsoft Fabric
Unify data from different sources and platforms
The Microsoft Fabric experience
Maximise efficiency and minimise costs
Enhance governance, compliance and data security
Take advantage of an open and governed foundation
Achieve excellence with Microsoft Fabric
Next steps Microsoft Fabric: The Essential Guide for Decision Makers 3 Accelerate business value with Microsoft Fabric Decision makers are the catalysts for digital transformation and cultivating a data culture. They play a crucial role in promoting business expansion, operational efficiency, productivity enhancements and product innovation. Empowering organisational success is Microsoft Fabric, a platform that significantly accelerates business value. Fabric ensures data estates are united, data governance is enhanced and a collaborative ecosystem is nurtured. Fabric enables organisational teams to harness the capabilities of generative AI when working with their data. By dismantling data silos, Fabric makes data readily accessible, streamlining extraction of comprehensive insights. Fabric is a strategic partner in the journey toward a data-driven culture. Unify data from different sources and platforms Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end analytics platform that stands as an ideal solution for unifying data estates. Fabric offers a comprehensive suite of services that allow data professionals to seamlessly ingest, store, process and analyse data within a unified platform. The integrated architecture of Fabric is centred around OneLake, enabling collaboration between data teams, maximising efficiency and reducing costs. The OneLake architecture ensures that data remains in a single location, eliminating the need for data duplication or movement across systems, significantly improving data governance. With centralised administration and robust security measures to enhance data security, Fabric ensures data is accessible only to authorised personnel. Its scalability, cost-effectiveness and accessibility make Fabric the comprehensive platform for the data estate and driving informed decision making. Microsoft Fabric: The Essential Guide for Decision Makers 4 The Microsoft Fabric experience Microsoft Fabric provides an array of services encompassing data movement, data lakes, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics and business intelligence. Data movement capabilities in Fabric allow organisations to seamlessly transfer data between various systems, including on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments. Fabric offers scalable and secure data lakes for storing vast amounts of data in any format. Figure 1: Microsoft Fabric overview Synapse Data Warehousing Synapse Data Engineering Synapse Data Science Synapse Real-Time Analytics Power BIData Factory T-SQL Spark KQL Analysis ServicesServerless compute DatasetKusto DBLakehouseWarehouse Delta – Parquet format Delta – Parquet format Delta – Parquet format OneSecurity OneLake Delta – Parquet format
