Microsoft Fabric – Introduction

Data Platform Next Step @ Billund, Denmark, 2023

 Stefan Azaric, Mark Pryce-Maher, Strahinja Rodic,
Program Manager Senior Program Manager Program Manager
@azaricstefan @MarkPM_MSFT @Strale15
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Microsoft Fabric: How we got Microsoft Fabric: Introduction

CONTENTS
here & Architecture

03 04
Microsoft Fabric: Capabilities Microsoft Fabric: Hands-on
& Scenarios demo

05 06
Getting started Q&A
Microsoft Fabric:
How we got here
 Breaking down data
siloes across the
organization into a
Balancing the need for unified source of truth
data access and self-

Today’s data
service analytics while
remaining governed

and analytics
challenges
Delivering on the promise
of analytics with limited
Limited scalability of resources
legacy solutions as data
demand rises
exponentially
What we’re hearing from our customers

How do I ensure
How do I unify all How do I minimize How do I improve
business users use the
disparate data sources security breaches and analytical agility for my
insights to get value
cost-effectively? risks? organization?
from my investments?
 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

Microsoft Fabric:
Introduction & Architecture
Introducing
Microsoft
Fabric
Fabric brings together existing offerings
like Data Factory, Synapse, and Power BI
into a single unified product for all your
data and analytics workloads:
 Data Factory (data integration)

 Synapse Data Engineering

 Synapse Data Warehouse

 Synapse Data Science

 Synapse Real-Time Analytics

 Power BI (Business Intelligence)

 Data Activator
One Copy for all computes
Real separation of compute and storage

All the compute engines store their data

automatically in OneLake

The data is stored in a single common format

Delta – Parquet, an open standards format,

is the storage format for all tabular data in
Analytics vNext

Spark T-SQL
Serverless KQL
Analysis
Once data is stored in the lake, it is directly
Compute Services
accessible by all the engines without needing
any import/export

All the compute engines have been fully

optimized to work with Delta Parquet as their
Customers Service Business
360
Finance
Telemetry KPIs
native format

Delta – Delta – Delta – Delta – Shared universal security model is enforced

Parquet Parquet Parquet Parquet
FormatÅ Format Format Format across all the engines
 Available now
Public preview Generally available

Data Factory Power BI

Synapse Data Engineering

Synapse Data Science

Private Preview
Synapse Data Warehousing
Data Activator
Synapse Real Time analytics
Copilot for Microsoft Fabric
Copilot for Power BI (DAX)
Copilot for Power BI (full)
OneLake
Microsoft Fabric:
Capabilities & Scenarios
Common analytics scenarios

Lakehouse Data Warehouse Data Science Real Time Analytics

Lakehouse

Data Source Ingestion Store Expose

Shortcut Enabled Shortcuts Lakehouse(s) PBI

Structured / Pipelines & Lake Warehouse

Unstructured Dataflows

Transform
Notebooks &
Dataflows
Data warehouse

Data Source Ingestion Store Expose

Shortcut Enabled Mounts Data Warehouse PBI

Structured / Pipelines & Warehouse

Unstructured Dataflows

Transform
Procedures
Microsoft Fabric:
Hands-on demos
Microsoft Fabric:
Getting Started
Get started
today Explore the product here: https://aka.ms/try-fabric

Get your questions answered in the Microsoft Fabric

webinar series: https://aka.ms/fabric-webinar-series

See the latest announcements in the Microsoft Fabric

blog site: https://aka.ms/fabric-tech-blog

Read the implementation guide:

https://aka.ms/Getting-Started-eBook
Microsoft Fabric:
Q&A
Thank you