Data-driven decision-making is what businesses need in today’s digital environment to stay ahead of the competition. The amount of data enterprises are generating is quite huge. Ultimately, managing, sorting, and transforming these data into insights is becoming a significant concern for enterprises. There are plenty of data sources from which enterprises generate data, but most of them exist in silos. To help businesses solve this challenge, Microsoft launched Fabric, a unified data and analytics platform designed to simplify the data integration and analytics process.
Let’s explore Microsoft Fabric and why it is important for businesses.
What is Microsoft Fabric?
Microsoft Fabric is a unified data platform combining different services and tools for data analytics, BI, and data integrations. It is built on Microsoft Azure cloud for streamlined infrastructure to give enterprises the advantage of efficient data analysis without any disruptions. Fabric is an additional component that allows users to explore more of the benefits of Microsoft Azure’s data system because it combines Azure Synapse, Power BI, and Azure Data Factory together in one platform.
Here are key components included in Microsoft Fabric
It comprises various services and tools under one roof to provide a unified platform solution; let’s break down its components:
Azure Data Factory
Azure Data factory is a centralized hub for all data integration related actions for any enterprise, it integrated move and transform the data from different sources. It supports different kinds of connectors for both cloud-based and on-premises systems enabling enterprises to collect data from different sources efficiently.
Azure Data Factory helps enterprises develop data pipelines for transformation, extraction and loading processes without any coding knowledge. With this, data preparation process accelerates and helps business to get analysis done faster.
Synapse Data Engineering
Synapse Data Engineering helps enterprises to develop a robust environment to build scalable transformation pipeline using Apache Spark and other computing tools to manage large data sets. Moreover, it also integrates with Power BI to enable seamless data sharing and analysis.
Real-Time Intelligence
Data is the key to helping you win in the market. If you want to win the market, you need to make a decision faster. Microsoft Fabric helps enterprises with its stream analytics services to get faster insights in real-time. It also helps in analytics key metrics, detect anomalies, and make informed decisions quickly. Real-time intelligence enables enterprises to extract insights and visualize the data by handling data ingestion, transformation, analytics, visualization, and producing real time insights. There are multiple no-code connectors available in the Real-time hub to help organizations extract the right intelligence from their data.
Power BI Integration
Power BI is one of the most used BI tools. It is known for transforming raw data into meaningful reports faster. Microsoft Fabric gives you seamless integration with Power BI and allows users to create interactive dashboards and communicate highly complex data and reports in a very easy format.
Data Governance and Security
Data security and governance is another critical concern for enterprises in today’s digital era. The inbuilt security features like RBAC make Microsoft fabric a robust platform to manage data with high security while managing the industry data compliance and regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR and more.
What pain points Microsoft Fabric solves for enterprises:
Managing data and delivering insights in a timely manner have become critical business aspects. Enterprises are struggling with data management. Here are some of the pressing concerns related to data management that Microsoft Fabric addresses:
Data Silos
When data is stored in multiple places and are not connected with each other, this situation is called Data silos. Usually, data silos lead to fragmented insights and cause collaboration issues in the team.
A unified data platform solves data silo problems by enabling enterprises to connect their data coming from multiple sources to have a more holistic view of their data insights.
Complex Data Integration
Integrating data from various sources can be daunting task if you are following traditional data integration methods. Microsoft Fabric simplifies the process with its Data factory, which offers numerous pre-built connectors to interact data from various sources faster and easier. It reduces the technical complexity involved in data integration process empowering the enterprises to get faster insights.
Scalability
The growth of data in our current ecosystem demands better infrastructure and processing power. To accommodate such dynamic requirement, we should have a scalable solution. Microsoft fabric is built on Azure cloud which gives enterprises scalability to scale their operations as required without worrying about their infrastructure limitations.
Microsoft Fabric drives you into the future
If you think Microsoft Fabric is just a regular data management tool, you are missing the point. It is more than a data management tool; it is a unified data platform that gives you everything under one umbrella – starting from data integration, governance, security, and analysis to data visualization.
Microsoft Fabric gives you the advantage of seizing market opportunities with informed decisions based on your insights extracted from the data. Data tells everything that you want, but first, you need to give it what data wants. It requires a platform where you can explore the real potential of your data and extract insights aligning with your business objectives. There are Microsoft-certified partners, such as the Saxon AI team, that can help you leverage Microsoft Fabric to your business goals.