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Unify Business Data with Microsoft Fabric
With findings from a 2024 Forrester report revealing a substantial 379% ROI over 3 years, Fabric is Microsoft’s data and analytics platform that transforms how businesses store and interact with their data. In today’s article we explore the top 4 benefits of using Fabric in your business.
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What is Microsoft Fabric?
Offering businesses an innovative way to centralise core data across platforms, Microsoft Fabric combines components from Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory and more to connect your data workloads. Fabric operates on a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, facilitating data movement, processing, real-time event routing and report building all from one place using OneLake, your tenant-wide data storage space. Essentially, Fabric is a unified solution that consolidates data for your organisation’s business and data users, including data engineers, scientists and analysts.
Below we discuss some of the key benefits of using Fabric as your data platform.
Unified Data
Centralising the location of your data means you can benefit from an end-to-end view of your data and analytics, with the ability to share data across platforms seamlessly. As well as this, unifying your data means you can avoid unnecessary data duplication, safeguarding the quality of your data so it is optimised for analysis and use by artificial intelligence (AI). Leveraging a single data platform will help you reduce the complexity of data-based processes and streamline data workflows, with Forrester reporting that adopting Fabric led to a 90% reduction in searching for data, integrating tools and debugging, which in turn resulted in a 25% increase in data engineering productivity.
AI-Integration
Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot is built into Fabric to assist users in their data workflows. Through a conversational experience, Copilot can help users better understand and explore their data. Copilot can even assist in more complex tasks like generating code and functions, creating dataflows, building machine learning models and generating visuals and reports. Copilot in Fabric allows both data professionals and business users to unlock new levels of productivity.
Cost Savings
Modernising your data infrastructure and consolidating data with Fabric can lead to susbtantial cost savings. By eliminating the need to implement multiple servers and analysis services from different vendors, as well as the need to integrate your various data tools, you can greatly reduce the costs associated with building your data infrastructure.
Security and Governance
Having one hub for all your data tools means you can centralise administration and governance across all your services to ensure the security of your data. With built-in security tools, such as access controls, encryption, compliance and governance features organisations can rest assured their critical data is protected in Fabric.
If you would like to learn more about Microsoft Fabric, get in touch with one of our solution specialists today.
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