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Today 微软 unveiling?Microsoft Fabric—an end-to-end, unified analytics platform that brings together all the data and analytics tools that organizations need. Fabric integrates technologies like Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI into a single unified product, empowering data and business professionals alike to unlock the potential of their data and lay the foundation for the era of AI.

Glimpse of Microsoft Fabric ?? Watch a quick overview:

What sets Microsoft Fabric apart??

Fabric is an end-to-end analytics product that addresses every aspect of an organization’s analytics needs. But there are five areas that really set Fabric apart from the rest of the market:

1. Fabric is a complete analytics platform?

Fabric comes with seven core workloads:?

• Data Factory?(preview)?provides more than 150 connectors to cloud and on-premises data sources, drag-and-drop experiences for data transformation, and the ability to orchestrate data pipelines.
• Synapse Data Engineering (preview)?enables great authoring experiences for Spark, instant start with live pools, and the ability to collaborate.
• Synapse Data Science (preview)?provides an end-to-end workflow for data scientists to build sophisticated AI models, collaborate easily, and train, deploy, and manage machine learning models.?
• Synapse Data Warehousing?(preview)?provides a converged lake house and data warehouse experience with industry-leading SQL performance on open data formats.
• Synapse Real-Time Analytics?(preview)?enables developers to work with data streaming in from the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, telemetry, logs, and more, and analyze massive volumes of semi-structured data with high performance and low latency.
• Power BI?in Fabric provides industry-leading visualization and AI-driven analytics that enable business analysts and business users to gain insights from data. The?Power BI experience?is also deeply integrated into Microsoft 365, providing relevant insights where business users already work.??
• Data Activator?(coming soon)?provides real-time detection and monitoring of data and can trigger notifications and actions when it finds specified patterns in data—all in a no-code experience.

2. Fabric is lake-centric and open?

Today’s data lakes can be messy and complicated, making it hard for customers to create, integrate, manage, and operate data lakes. And once they are operational, multiple data products using different proprietary data formats on the same data lake can cause significant data duplication and concerns about vendor lock-in.??

OneLake—The OneDrive for data?

Fabric comes with a SaaS, multi-cloud data lake called OneLake that is built-in and automatically available to every Fabric tenant. All Fabric workloads are automatically wired into OneLake, just like all Microsoft 365 applications are wired into OneDrive. Data is organized in an intuitive data hub, and automatically indexed for discovery, sharing, governance, and compliance.??

3. Fabric is powered by AI??

Copilot in Microsoft Fabric builds on our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Copilot inherits an organization’s security, compliance, and privacy policies. Microsoft does not use organizations’ tenant data to train the base language models that power Copilot.?

Copilot in Microsoft Fabric will be coming soon. Stay tuned to the?Microsoft Fabric blog?for the latest updates and public release date for Copilot in Microsoft Fabric.??

4. Fabric empowers every business user?

Customers aspire to drive a data culture where everyone in their organization is making better decisions based on data. To help microsoft customers foster this culture, Fabric deeply integrates with the?Microsoft 365 applications?people use every day.??

5. Fabric reduces costs through unified capacities?

Today’s analytics systems typically combine products from multiple vendors in a single project. This results in computing capacity provisioned in multiple systems like data integration, data engineering, data warehousing, and business intelligence. When one of the systems is idle, its capacity cannot be used by another system causing significant wastage.??

Explore how customers are already using Microsoft Fabric??

Ferguson Waterworks ?

Ferguson is a leading distributor of plumbing, HVAC, and waterworks supplies, operating across North America. And by using Fabric to consolidate their analytics stack into a unified solution, they are hoping to reduce their delivery time and improve efficiency.?

“Microsoft Fabric reduces the delivery time by removing the overhead of using multiple disparate services. By consolidating the necessary data provisioning, transformation, modeling, and analysis services into one UI, the time from raw data to business intelligence is significantly reduced. Fabric meaningfully impacts Ferguson’s data storage, engineering, and analytics groups since all these workloads can now be done in the same UI for faster delivery of insights.”

—George Rasco, Principal Database Architect, Ferguson

Tap on this link to see Fabric in action at Ferguson:

Aon ??

Aon provides professional services and management consulting services to a vast global network of customers. With the help of Fabric, Aon hopes that they can consolidate more of their current technology stack and focus on adding more value to their clients.?

“What’s most exciting to me about Fabric is simplifying our existing analytics stack. Currently, there are so many different PaaS services across the board that when it comes to modernization efforts for many developers, Fabric helps simplify that. We can now spend less time building infrastructure and more time adding value to our business.”??

—Boby Azarbod, Data Services Lead, Aon

What happens to current Microsoft analytics solutions??

Existing Microsoft products such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Data Explorer will continue to provide a robust, enterprise-grade platform as a service (PaaS) solution for data analytics. Fabric represents an evolution of those offerings in the form of a simplified SaaS solution that can connect to existing PaaS offerings. Customers will be able to upgrade from their current products into Fabric at their own pace.?

• Exploring Fabric through the?Guided Tour.
• Joining the?Fabric community?to post your questions, share your feedback, and learn from others.?

Stay tuned for more updates and exciting features coming soon to Microsoft Fabric. We are committed to helping you unleash the full potential of your data.

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