Data analysis - Product
Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft unified analytics platform spanning data integration, warehousing and BI
What's it for?
Brings data preparation, storage, analysis and reporting together in one Microsoft platform.
For example…
A data team uses Microsoft Fabric to ingest sales data, store it in a lakehouse and publish Power BI reports from the same analytics platform
Finance analysts query governed warehouse tables in Fabric while engineers use its pipelines to keep those tables refreshed.
Often confused with…
- Azure Synapse AnalyticsMicrosoft analytics service combining data warehousing, data integration and large-scale data processing
- SnowflakeA cloud platform for storing, combining and analysing large amounts of organisational data
- DatabricksA cloud platform for processing, analysing and building AI from large amounts of data