Microsoft Fabric

Analytics-as-a-Service in den Zeiten von KI

Hans-Peter Bareiner
Practice Lead – Azure Analytics Platform - Germany

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How do you translate data into
competitive advantage?
AI is causing a massive
platform shift
But AI is only as good as
your data
Challenges to realizing your data strategy
Multiple factors create a complex barrier to delivering value from data.

Slow time to value

Shadow IT Limited
Data
data governance
quality

Complex
Security and integrations
Proliferation of compliance risks
Disparate data solutions
systems and
data silos

Difficult to balance access

Limited and data protection
scalability
Insufficient
data literacy
Rapidly increasing and expertise
data volumes
 Data-driven business insights

Unlock business value

Holistic data, management, and analytics
with a modern
data platform Robust governance that enables access
and flexibility
Create the foundation for a
progressive data strategy and
innovative analytics solutions. Secure, compliant, and fully integrated

Well-architected, repeatable, modular

patterns
Develop and optimize a data strategy and platform
Leverage the data management and analytics scenario for best practices and executable resources.

Cloud Adoption Framework
Align business and technical
strategies for the cloud using
Microsoft guidance, best practices,
documentation, and tools.
ALE ANALYTICS SC
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O IO Well-Architected Framework
CL Follow key principles of architectural
excellence to guide workload
development and optimization.

Reference architectures Deployment templates

Leverage modular building blocks to Deploy infrastructure and create new
grow your infrastructure over time and resources with repeatable templates
adapt the scenario to your use cases. and declarative syntax.

Assessments Skilling resources

Identify gaps in governance, evaluate Map the skills needed to drive your
workload performance, understand data strategy to your existing
your DevOps capabilities, and more. capabilities. Build new skills through
learning resources and certifications.
Empower teams by facilitating data self-service
Increase data agility and accelerate time to value.

Centralized data ownership Federated data ownership

IT centrally owns data and all services Business owns data-driven projects

Centralized Common governance

architectures and management
Platform
Competing (Shared Services) Improves quality
Platform
business needs and security
(Shared Services)
Workarounds to Azure Azure Data
Increases efficiency
enable agility Synapse Purview Lake and access

Resource:
Build an initial strategy
Prepare for agile data management
Enabling self-service at scale requires a holistic approach to data management.

Prepare your company to:

→ Enforce data governance and security.

→ Serve data as a product rather than a byproduct.

→ Provide an ecosystem of data products instead of a single data warehouse.

→ Create data domains to serve lines of business.

→ Empower teams to drive analytics solutions that deliver value to the business.

→ Modernize your teams and operations.

Resource:
Prepare your environment
Evolution of Data Architectures
with Microsoft Fabric
Scalable analytics are complex and fragmented

Every analytics project

has many subsystems

Every subsystem need a

different class of product

Products often comes

from multiple vendors

Integration at scale across

products is complex,
fragile and expensive
Massive fragmentation of the
modern data stack
The 2023 ML, AI, and Data Landscape
“ Simplify,
I am the Chief Data Officer
and don’t want to be the
Chief Integration Officer.”
Every CDO, Every Enterprise
 Our Simplification Approach

Data Factory Kusto Azure AI Power BI Synapse Spark Synapse DW Purview

From a collection of products, to…

Data Data Spark Data Real Time Data Business Governance

Integration Lake Engines Warehouse Analytics Science Intelligence

Unified analytics fabric

Built on open standards
 Announcing

Microsoft Fabric
Data analytics for the era of AI
 Microsoft Fabric
Data analytics for the era of AI

Complete Lake Centric Empower AI

Analytics and Open Every Business Powered
Platform User

Everything, unified OneLake Familiar and intuitive Copilot accelerated

SaaS-ified One copy Built into Microsoft 365 GPT on your data

Secured and governed Open at every tier Insight to action AI-driven insights
 Microsoft Fabric
Data analytics for the era of AI

Data Synapse Data Synapse Data Synapse Data Synapse Real Data
Power BI
Factory Engineering Science Warehouse Time Analytics Activator

OneLake
Persona
optimized
experiences
 SaaS
“It just works"

Success Centralized
5x5
by default administration

Frictionless onboarding Minimal knobs Tenant-wide governance

Centralized
Instant provisioning Auto optimized
security management

Quick results w/ Intuitive UX Auto integrated Compliance built-in

 OneLake for all your Data
“The OneDrive for Data”

OneDrive OneLake
for documents for data

OneLake provides a data lake as a service without

you needing to build it
OneLake for OneLake
all domains Sales Customer

A true hub & spoke data

mesh across organizational HR IT Marketing

data domains.

Finance Operations

Workspaces and artifacts Without data movement, Data is secured and governed in one Data can be certified by
for different data domains, data from different domains place while remaining easily discoverable domain experts to
contribute to building the can be analyzed, blended and accessible to all who should have enabling trust for data
same data lake. and transformed together. access across the organization. which is discovered.
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