What is Microsoft Fabric and Why it is a big deal

You might have heard the news of the announcement at Microsoft Build by Arun Ulag and the rest of the Microsoft Data and Analytics Platform team. The announcement was about the new service offering named Microsoft Fabric. In this article and video, I want to explain what Fabric is and why you should care. In the end, I will also share my two cents on how I see this offering will come into the Data analytics products and services market.
Read my article about it here:

[ADITYA]

Thanks Reza. That was a fantastic overview! Waiting to hear more from you in this space in upcoming days.

[carltonseymour]

Thank you Reza for this update. Will try it out. Happy to hear that Leila is recovering.

[apg_skywalker_]

Thanks Reza for the quick and easy to understand intro.

[stugryffin]

FINALLY. Something clear and concise that make the MS documentation make more sense. Thank you Reza.🙏

[sc]

No doubt a praiseworthy presentation clear enough!
Looking forward for similar ones ahead too Reza.

[sergeymalevich]

Thank you so much for hard work and for sharing such a great news

[kirstyclark]

Great video Reza, thanks. Often these simple explanations are hard to find.

Do you have an article or video on when to shift to the more complex data warehousing solutions rather than leaving data in the Power BI model. My experience is that this is too complex for many small businesses but I'd appreciate your insights on when it becomes worth the investment and what the trigger would be to change.

[christoph]

very interesting video and well explained. thank you.

[nipunsrirangam]

thank you reza for great explanation :)

[kwaaikraai]

Great video, as always. Thanks, Reza.

[fzawadi]

Thanks a lot for this information. Highly appreciate your efforts in spreading the knowledge.

[Bharath_PBI]

Thank you! This means exams and certifications are going to be changed once it's out of preview!!

[sonsangsom]

Thank you for the update!!!

Would it be possible for you to have a dedicated video explaining the licensing of Microsoft Fabric?

[gates]

Thank you for the update. Like your channel. Hope Leila is doing well.

[mustafabiviji]

Thanks for the video.

You mentioned the license can be used for other workloads too. Will the licensing be such that it will be valuable Only if all components are used? Or will scaled up and down in some ways? (still find it hard that there is no automated Power BI Embedding license start/pause mechanism)

[erikvanhurck]

Curious to know if there will be license differences for report builders vs viewers etc. Looking forward to next video's on the topic.

[ibrahimmegahed]

Thank you so much, great informative video.
I enabled Fabric but can you please show us how to find copilot to creat Power bi report?

[jask]

difference between onelake, lakehouse and warehouse in fabric?

[MT-oyuk]

We are relaying on power bi dataflows a lot in our organization. Dozens of users have premium per user license and data is mainly stored in Power BI dataflows for reports and datasets. Will this change the way we work and/or pricing?

[decentmendreams]

Everything looks different in PBI service._ Asked me to upgrade for the trial version which I did but not very familiar with any of it so watching this help shed some light on this new product. Will Direct Lake have Query folding capabilities? Thanks