Data & AI > Microsoft Fabric
Purpose
A Collection of resources for Microsoft practice building leveraging Fabric. For a view of other solution areas, please see the Taxonomy.
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Industry
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Augmented BI Platforms, Q2 2023 | Forrester has recognized Microsoft as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Augmented BI Platforms, Q2 2023. Microsoft received the highest score of any vendor in the strategy category. | Forrester |
| Introducing Microsoft Fabric: Data analytics for the era of AI | Announcement - By Arun Ulagaratchagan Corporate Vice President, Azure Data | Azure |
| Microsoft Ignite 2024 - Book of News - Data and Analytics | Key announcements from Ignite 2024 in the areas of : Autonomous Fabric Databases, Open Mirroring, OneLake Catalog, SQL Server in Fabric, and Azure Managed Redis | Microsoft Ignite |
Practice Building
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric Readiness and Enablement Resources | Leverage the Microsoft Fabric customer L100 pitch decks and Microsoft Fabric Pricing and Transacting deck to create your Fabric presentation and engage your customers. Leave behind the Microsoft Fabric One Pager with your customers for more information. | Partner Center |
| Fabric Partner Community | The Fabric Partner Community is a diverse and inclusive Teams channel created for all Microsoft partners interested in building and growing their Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and analytics practices. | Fabric Community |
| Data analytics for the era of AI | From data integration and engineering to data science and business intelligence, find out how next-generation services can transform your data into intelligence and innovation. Also, see how the new AI-infused Copilot experiences accelerate developer productivity while building in security and compliance for your data. | Microsoft Build 2023 |
| Accelerate your data potential with Microsoft Fabric | Bring your data engineers, scientists, and analysts together in new ways and unleash innovation in your organization with a class-leading open and governed solution that truly allows you to do more, with less. | Microsoft Build 2023 |
| Unlocking Transformative Data Value with Microsoft Fabric | ebook - Learn why accessing and managing real-time data in the cloud is key to long-term business success—and see how to get started with a modern analytics solution. | Microsoft |
| Microsoft Fabric licenses | A Microsoft Fabric subscription consists of tenants, capacities, and workspaces and can be organized in various ways according to your organizational needs | Microsoft Learn |
| Microsoft Fabric Guided Tour | Guided tour for Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Guided Tour |
| Fabric Notes | Simple drawings illustrating the main concepts of Microsoft Fabric to empower anyone to build stuff on Fabric. | GitHub |
Architecture and best practices
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric Readiness | The Fabric Readiness repo is designed to enable communities interested in topics and concepts related to Microsoft Fabric. This repository currently provides a collection of presentation decks that are intended to be reused in user groups, online presentations, in-person conferences, and customer conversations. | GitHub |
| Microsoft Fabric decision guide: choose a data store | Use this reference guide and the example scenarios to help you choose a data store for your Microsoft Fabric workloads. | Microsoft Learn |
| Microsoft Fabric decision guide: copy activity, dataflow, or Spark | se this reference guide and the example scenarios to help you in deciding whether you need a copy activity, a dataflow, or Spark for your Microsoft Fabric workloads. | Microsoft Learn |
| Create Metadata Driven Data Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric | Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory and Synapse Pipelines, and now, Microsoft Fabric, give you the capability to ingest and transform data with less code, reduced maintenance and greater scalability than writing code or pipelines for every data source that needs to be ingested and transformed. | Blog |
| Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouse & Medallion Architecture | Lakehouses have become a common foundational design pattern for modern data platforms, and have risen in popularity over the last few years after tools like #Databricks, and now #MicrosoftFabric, have standardized on the design. The Medallion Architecture refers to a three-tiered architectural blueprint, with data moving through different stages of state, each stage serving different purposes | YouTube |
| Data Factory end-to-end scenario: introduction and architecture | This tutorial helps you accelerate the evaluation process for Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric by providing a step-by-step guidance for a full data integration scenario within one hour. | Microsoft Learn |
| Using Azure Databricks with Microsoft Fabric and OneLake | How does Azure Databricks work with Microsoft Fabric? With the recent announcement of Microsoft Fabric, this question might have appeared in your social media feed. This blog post will answer that question and more details on how the two systems can work together. | Blog |
| Microsoft Fabric End-to-End Security Whitepaper | comprehensive 75-page whitepaper covering all the comprehensive capabilities in Fabric that cover everything from network security, workload specific security, securing data, governing data, administration, reliability, and end to end scenario | Microsoft |
| Introducing the New Deployment Pipelines design | Introducing the New Deployment Pipelines design: A leap forward in deployment Efficiency - This update introduces a range of changes, additions, and improvements designed to elevate your deployment process. | Blog |
| Microsoft Fabric Data Gateway Real Time Monitoring | Using Microsoft Fabric, these logs are centralized in an event stream and processed efficiently through the Eventhouse. This centralized data is then available for analysis in Power BI and can support automated response rules via a data activator (pending implementation). | GitHub @ecotte |
Access Fabric
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Accessing Microsoft Fabric for developers, startups and enterprises | Enabling Microsoft Fabric as a developer, as a startup or as an enterprise has different steps. In this blog, I am covering those steps for all different users. | Blog |
| Microsoft Fabric - Free Trial | Free Trial | Microsoft |
| Fabric SKU | Use SKU calculator for Microsoft Fabric based mapped to CU | Partner Center |
| Fabric SKU Calculator - Demo | Watch this demo to learn how to use the partner ready Fabric SKU Calculator to present to your customers | Partner Center |
Skilling
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Become a Fabric Analytics Engineer | Everything you need to get DP-600 certified. | Fabric Community |
| Fabric Readiness and Enablement Resources | Watch Microsoft Fabric Launch Event, a two-day digital event to learn more about the exciting launch of Microsoft Fabric. Leverage the Microsoft Fabric customer L100 pitch decks and Microsoft Fabric Pricing and Transacting deck to create your Fabric presentation and engage your customers. Leave behind the Microsoft Fabric One Pager with your customers for more information. | Partner |
| Microsoft Fabric for those who know nothing about Fabric | move from zero knowledge or experience to a confident beginner. | Tech Community |
| Learn Live: Get started with Microsoft Fabric | Whether you’re building your career or the next great idea, Microsoft Reactor connects you with the developers and startups that share your goals. Learn new skills, meet new peers, and find career mentorship. Virtual events are running around the clock so join us anytime, anywhere! | Microsoft Reactor |
| Introduction to Microsoft Fabric - Webinar series | Webinar Series | Microsoft Videos |
| Get started with Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learning path for Microsoft Fabric (9𝐡) | Microsoft Learn |
| End-to-end tutorials in Microsoft Fabric | hese tutorials guide you through a scenario that covers the entire process, from data acquisition to data consumption. Includes: lakehouse, data science, real-time analytics, data warehouse tutorials | Microsoft Learn |
| Tutorial: Fabric for Power BI users | In this tutorial, you learn how to use Dataflows Gen2 and Pipelines to ingest data into a Lakehouse and create a dimensional model. | Microsoft Learn |
| Webinar Series: Introduction to Microsoft Fabric | On-demand: Watch this series to learn about the key experiences and benefits of this end-to-end analytics solution | Microsoft Webinars |
| Fabric Workshops | This repository is a guide for Microsoft Fabric Workshops and Readiness. | GitHub |
Copilot in Microsoft Fabric
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Overview of Copilot for Power BI | Copilot for Microsoft Fabric Public Preview is available in Power BI. Copilot helps you use the transformational power of generative AI to get the most from your data. | Microsoft Learn |
| Revolutionize reports with Fabric Copilot and Power BI | This presentation will show how to leverage Fabric Copilot to improve the Power BI experience for developers and end users. We’ll show you how to go from start to finish applying our favorite new features that Fabric Copilot offers. By the end of this presentation, you’ll know how to leverage Fabric Copilot in Microsoft Fabric and be equipped with strategies to increase productivity, improve efficiency, and report utilization for your teams. | Microsoft Build |
| Copilot in Power BI Demo | ith Copilot in Power BI, we are infusing the power of large language models into Power BI at every layer to help users get more done and create more value from their data. Using Copilot, you can simply describe the visuals and insights you’re looking for and Copilot will do the rest. Users can create and tailor reports in seconds, generate and edit DAX calculations, create narrative summaries, and ask questions about their data, all in conversational language. With the ability to easily tailor the tone, scope and style of narratives and add them seamlessly within reports, Power BI can also deliver data insights even more impactfully through easy-to-understand text summaries | YouTube |
| Use Azure OpenAI to turn whiteboard sketches into data pipelines | General Availability (GA) of Copilot for Data Factory. It operates like a subject-matter expert (SME), collaborating with you to design your dataflows. | Fabric Blog |
databricks
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Databricks Academy | As a customer, you have access to all Databricks free customer training offerings. These offerings include courses, recorded webinars, and quarterly product roadmap webinars. You can access the material from your Databricks Academy account. | databricks |
Labs
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Fabric Labs | Hands-on labs to Create a lakehouse, Analyze data with Apache Spark, Use delta tables in Apache Spark, Ingest data with a pipeline in Microsoft Fabric, Create a Dataflow (Gen2) in Microsoft Fabric, Analyze data in a data warehouse, Real-Time Analytics in Microsoft Fabric, notebooks to train a model in Microsoft Fabric | GitHub |
| Microsoft Fabric End-to-End Real-Time Analytics Workshop | Rapidly generating real-time data and understanding how that data can be processed and visualized in Microsoft Fabric | GitHub |
| Unleashing the Power of SynapseML and Microsoft Fabric: A Guide to Q&A on PDF Documents | In this blog post, we delve into the exciting functionalities and features of Microsoft Fabric and SynapseML to demonstrate how to leverage LLMs to perform question and answer (Q&A) tasks on any PDF document. | Blog |
References
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Overview of Copilot in Fabric and Power BI (preview) | Copilot and other generative AI features in preview bring new ways to transform and analyze data, generate insights, and create visualizations and reports in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. | Microsoft Learn |
| Microsoft Fabric release plan | he Microsoft Fabric release plan documentation announces the latest updates and timelines to customers as features are prepared for future releases. Includes: OnleLAke, Synapse, Power BI, Data Activator | Microsoft Learn |
| Microsoft Fabric documentation | Microsoft Fabric is a unified platform that can meet your organization’s data and analytics needs. Discover the capabilities Fabric has to offer, understand how it works, and how to use it. | Microsoft Learn |
| Connecting to OneLake | In this blog, we’ll dive into how to connect and interact with OneLake, including how OneLake achieves its compatibility with any tool used over ADLS Gen2 | Blog |
| Can cross-cloud data analytics be easy? | Work with your data in place, wherever it resides, with Microsoft Fabric, our next generation data analytics service powered by one of the first true multi-cloud data lakes, called OneLake. Go from raw data to meaningful insights over data spread across your organization and in other clouds in seconds — without moving it. | Tech Community / Microsoft Mechanics |
Fabric Community
| Source | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Fabric Blog |
| Fabric Community | Fabric Community is the place for you to ask questions, provide solutions, and build your knowledge. | Microsoft Community |
| Introducing Fabric | BI Polar Blog | |
| Overcoming the Fear: Exploring Microsoft Fabric from a Power BI Angle | Data Marc Blog | |
| Microsoft Fabric – the first look | coding family blog | |
| Microsoft Fabric – Beyond Hype and Marketing! | Data Mozart Blog | |
| Getting Started with Microsoft Fabric: Enabling 60-Day Trial and Analysing Data | ServerlessSQL | |
| Overview of new Microsoft Fabric Power BI Announcements | Data Goblins Blog | |
| Direct Lake: My Favorite Feature in Microsoft Fabric | Artis Consulting | |
| Data Intelligence on light speed: Microsoft Fabric | redgate |