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What is Microsoft Fabric? A big tech stack for big data

February 9, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for data analytics. It is built around a data lake called OneLake, and brings together new and existing components from Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse, and Azure Data Factory into a single integrated environment.

Microsoft Fabric encompasses data movement, data storage, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence, along with data security, governance, and compliance. In many ways, Fabric is Microsoft’s answer to Google Cloud Dataplex. As of this writing, Fabric is in preview.

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