What is Microsoft Fabric - a guide by Select Distinct

What is Microsoft Fabric?

Launched in 2023, Microsoft Fabric integrates data engineering, data science, data warehousing, real-time analytics, and business intelligence into a single platform.

Key components include:
- Power BI: Advanced data visualization
- Data Factory: Seamless dataflows and pipelines
- Synapse Data Engineering: Large-scale data transformation
- Synapse Data Science: Machine learning model deployment
- OneLake: Industry-leading SQL performance and scalability

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3. Launched in 2023 Microsoft Fabric is central to Microsoft’s Data Strategy, combining data engineering, data science, data warehousing, real time analytics and business intelligence in a single environment

4. Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Science, Real Time Analytics, Power BI, Data Activator and One Lake Components of Microsoft Fabric

5. This combines the  Azure data factory  and Power Query enabling the construction of dataflows and data pipelines. Data Factory

6. This provides a Spark platform with great authoring experiences. This enables data engineers to perform large scale data transformation and democratize data through the lakehouse . Synapse Data Engineering

7. This enables you to build, deploy, and operationalize machine learning models. It integrates with Azure Machine Learning to provide built-in experiment tracking and model registry. Synapse Data Science

8. Through ingestion through event streams or processing in KQL Through ingestion through event streams or processing in KQL (Kusto Query Language). Fabric is designed to work with real time data. Synapse Real Time Analytics

9. Fabric contains a cloud version of this Business intelligence Platform. Power BI

10. This monitors data in Power BI reports and Event streams items. When data hits certain thresholds or matches other patterns, it automatically takes appropriate action such as sending out alerts Data Activator

11. The Data Warehouse experience provides industry leading SQL performance and scale. It separates compute from storage, enabling independent scaling of both the components. It stores data in the open Delta Lake format. OneLake

12. These are the key components of the Microsoft Fabric Offering You can learn more about these components, and alternatives in our Blog