Prologue
In this article, we will introduce the new Microsoft Fabric solution and what it has to offer.
We will explore the challenges and opportunities that organizations face while navigating the ecosystem of data, analytics, services, tools, and the necessary business outcomes they support. We will also share how Microsoft Fabric is uniquely positioned to support your organization with a simplified, unified, SaaS-based data and analytics solution.
Today’s data and analytics challenges
Businesses today face a variety of data and analytics challenges that can be difficult to navigate.
To put this into perspective, research shows “the amount of data created over the next three years will be more than the data created over the past 30 years.”
Accessing and managing real-time data on the cloud is a top priority for long-term success. Investing in a comprehensive data & analytics platform can address the hurdles encountered in your current data ecosystem.
What businesses say?
Even though data-informed decision-making, BI adoption, and scale are high priority organizational needs – they are not always met. Here are the most common questions companies have:
How to address these challenges?
Creating a unified source of truth ensures organizations are operating in a standardized way – and using the same data across the organization.
Democratization of insights has become an increasingly essential component of decision making. When leveraged correctly, it allows technical – and business – end-users to access, interpret, and use relevant insights for better, more informed decision making.
Every organization is trying to accelerate time to value. A unified source of truth paired with democratized insights enables business end-users to make decisions faster – and with scale. The right solution can also help optimize for governance and costs associated with data and analytics solutions.
Introducing Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric provides a one-stop-shop for data integration, data engineering, real-time analytics, data science, and business intelligence needs without compromising the privacy and security of your data. By joining top companies using Microsoft Fabric, you will enable teams to experience an end-to-end, highly integrated, single solution that is easy to understand, onboard, create, and operate.
With this solution you will no longer have to stitch together multiple data, analytics, and BI solutions to get the business answers you need. With this unified SaaS solution, you’ll have a single source of truth for all your data and analytics, enabling secure, democratized insights. By leveraging this powerful open and scalable solution, you’ll accelerate time to value through cost management, spend optimization––making the most of your data investment.
Microsoft Fabric enables you to manage your data in one place with a suite of analytics experiences that work together seamlessly, including:
Microsoft Fabric combines Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Data Explorer, and Power BI into a single, unified experience, on the cloud. The open and governed data lakehouse foundation is a cost-effective and performance-optimized fabric for business intelligence, machine learning, and AI workloads at any scale. It is the foundation for migrating and modernizing existing analytics solutions, whether this be data appliances or traditional data warehouses.
Microsoft Fabric’s SaaS environment makes it easier to deploy an entire end-to-end analytics engine from the ground up at an accelerated pace. With the solution’s built-in security and governance capabilities, you can be rest assured your data and insights are protected.
Lake-centric and open
Microsoft Fabric simplifies the process of securely and responsibly discovering and analyzing reliable data from diverse sources into a centralized, governed hub that teams can access.
In leveraging accurate, trusted, and real-time data, teams can deliver more powerful insights by connecting disparate data sources together in OneLake. No matter what engine or artifact you use, everyone contributes to building the same lake. With contributing to the same data lake, it’s easy to enable domains of the organization to take ownership of their data.
On top of this, consolidation of data and analytics capabilities promotes better collaboration and coordination between teams and enables a “single pane of glass” view across your organization.
Plus, all of this can be done with eliminating the integration tax and keeping your data protected with out-of-the-box security, compliance, and governance.
Center of enablement for every user
Secure, democratized insights pairs nicely with the Microsoft Fabric’s unified source of truth. By having a secure democratization of analytics at your fingertips, you equip everyone with easy access to analytics artifacts and services that may have previously existed in silos to derive and distribute useful insights.
This empowers everyone to uncover insights through a data-backed, decision-making process. Self-service, low-code BI and visualization tools, as well as industry-leading accessibility features, make this possible.
Teams can share insights seamlessly by incorporating compelling, interactive visuals into the productivity and business applications your organization uses. From turning Microsoft 365 into a BI hub to embedding Power BI reports into custom applications, increase analytical agility by using what’s best for your organization. Then, easily share insights securely with internal and external audiences.
Accelerated time to value
Unlike many other solutions in today’s market, Microsoft Fabric offers a flexible pricing model based on usage that enables end-users to do more with less, even as you scale and grow your business, essentially accelerating the time to value.
Organizations that adopt this Microsoft Fabric will benefit from having simplified and transparent cost management by paying for one solution with one bill.
Microsoft Fabric also offers seamless sign-up and onboarding which will help drive adoption. Organizations will also be able to make the most of this investment because they will have one platform that can connect and analyze previously siloed or inaccessible data, including partner and third-party data sources/solutions.
Summary
Many businesses are being tasked with making the most out of limited resources. In other words – do more with less.
Microsoft Fabric empowers customers to maximize the value of your technology investments by generating economies of scale through:
Flexible, transparent pricing model – Help understand how much you are actually spending through a single bill and the flexibility to adjust resources.
Ease of deployment and management – Spend less time trying to understand, implement, maintain, and govern the entire estate because of the SaaS-powered solution.
Secure, self-service data and analytics – Quickly spin up data-backed insights powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence, and access analytics capabilities through secure, easy-to-use sharing across every team and user across your organization.
