Microsoft gives businesses new reasons to adopt Fabric

Microsoft is working to make it cloud-based Material The bundling of data warehousing, data science, data engineering and data analytics services has become more attractive, and a number of new features were previewed at the first annual European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference last week.

Launched in May 2023, Fabric brings together six “workloads”: Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Data Science, Real-Time Intelligence, and Power BI, which Microsoft says will help businesses reduce the burden, complexity, and cost of IT integration.

Microsoft hopes to increase businesses’ share of data analytics spending by encouraging them to replace disparate applications from multiple vendors with a single offering, but to do so those vendors must match feature-by-feature. This week’s preview announcements and the general availability of earlier previews bring it one step closer to parity, perhaps close enough for some organizations to make the jump.