I blogged about Microsoft Fabric a few weeks ago, and wanted to follow up with an introduction video that covers the basics so hopefully you will understand the major features of Fabric at a high-level.

You can find the video here. The deck used in the video can be found here.

Here is the video abstract:

Microsoft Fabric is the next version of Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI. It brings all of these capabilities together into a single unified analytics platform that goes from the data lake to the business user in a SaaS-like environment. Therefore, the vision of Fabric is to be a one-stop shop for all the analytical needs for every enterprise and one platform for everyone from a citizen developer to a data engineer. Fabric will cover the complete spectrum of services including data movement, data lake, data engineering, data integration and data science, observational analytics, and business intelligence. With Fabric, there is no need to stitch together different services from multiple vendors. Instead, the customer enjoys end-to-end, highly integrated, single offering that is easy to understand, onboard, create and operate.

This is a hugely important new product from Microsoft and I will simplify your understanding of it via a presentation and demo.

Agenda:
What is Microsoft Fabric?
Workspaces and capacities
OneLake
Lakehouse
Data Warehouse
ADF
Power BI / DirectLake
Resources