What is Microsoft Fabric?
Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end, cloud-based data analytics platform designed to bring all your data and analytics tools into one place.
It was created to solve a common challenge: data is often spread across multiple systems, tools, and teams, making it difficult to manage, analyse, and trust.
At the core of Fabric is OneLake, a central repository for your data. OneLake is like OneDrive for data, providing a single, unified location across your organisation. You can bring data into OneLake from a wide range of sources, including business systems, files, and cloud applications.
You can also use Shortcuts to access data stored in other locations without copying or moving it. This reduces data duplication and helps ensure everyone is working from the same, consistent data.
Fabric is delivered as a fully managed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform, meaning Microsoft handles the infrastructure, scalability, and performance.
What makes Fabric different is that it brings multiple analytics capabilities into a single, integrated platform—rather than requiring separate tools.
These capabilities work together across the full data lifecycle:
- Data Factory to ingest data from different sources
- Data storage and engineering to organise and prepare data
- Data Science and Machine Learning to analyse and build models
- Real-Time Analytics to work with live event data
- Power BI to visualise and share insights across the business
This allows data engineers, analysts, and business users to work in the same environment using the same data without needing to switch between disconnected tools.
To learn more about Microsoft Fabric, you can join one of our introductory webinars here: https://www.pa.com.au/events/how-to-unlock-value-from-your-data-with-microsoft-fabric-to-drive-better-decisions/