Microsoft Fabric is like Lego but so what 🤷‍♀️?

Microsoft has made data and reporting like Lego bricks but so what 🤷‍♀️ ?

Microsoft has made data and reporting like Lego bricks but so what 🤷‍♀️ ?

While data and reporting may not be as simple as building a Lego model (yet) Microsoft Fabric has brought together all of the key services of data warehousing and business intelligence together to make it easier to get the reports businesses need.

But what does this mean for small and medium-sized businesses?

Microsoft Fabric makes good reporting more accessible, affordable and achievable giving SME’s tools that previously only the larger enterprises could benefit from.

Levelling the playing field for smaller businesses is great but so what?

Data warehousing and business intelligence will always require an investment but it is about the return on investment for good business. Such as:

1. Improved Decision-Making: Power BI allows you to visualise and understand your data better. This can lead to more informed business decisions and, ultimately, better results.

2. Time Savings: By automating data analysis and report generation, Power BI can save your team a lot of time. This means they can focus on other tasks that directly generate revenue.

3. Reduced Costs: Power BI can help identify inefficiencies or areas where you’re spending too much, allowing you to cut costs.

4. Increased Revenue: By providing insights into customer behaviour and market trends, Power BI can help identify opportunities to increase sales and revenue.

5. Scalability: As your business grows, Power BI can handle more complex data analysis. This means you won’t need to invest in a new tool as your needs change.

Explaining Microsoft Fabric in more detail:

Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics solution for organisations that covers everything from data movement to data science, Real-Time Analytics, and business intelligence. It brings together new and existing components from Power BI, Azure Synapse, and Azure Data Factory into a single integrated environment

The components of Microsoft Fabric include:

• Data Engineering - Data Engineering experience provides a world-class Spark platform with great authoring experiences, enabling data engineers to perform large-scale data transformation and democratize data through the lakehouse.
• Data Factory - Azure Data Factory combines the simplicity of Power Query with the scale and power of Azure Data Factory.
• Data Lake - A fully managed cloud service that makes it easy to store and analyze any kind of data in Azure at massive scale.
• Synapse Studio - A collaborative workspace where you can perform data preparation, data management, and data warehousing tasks.
• Synapse Analytics - A limitless analytics service that brings together big data and data warehousing through a unified experience that provides up to 75% cost savings