Microsoft Fabric is here to transform the way you work with data—but what does that mean for Data Governance? As a Data Governance Manager, will Fabric make it easier to ensure data remains a strategic asset? As a Data Engineer or Analyst, can it help you build trusted data products? Or are you concerned that… READ MORE
Data moves fast, and businesses need to keep up. Whether it’s tracking retail inventory or monitoring financial transactions, staying ahead requires analytics that are both lightning-fast and nearly up to the moment. Enter Direct Lake Storage Mode in Microsoft Fabric—a revolutionary approach that delivers high-performance analytics. In this guide, we’ll explore what Direct Lake is,… READ MORE
Originally Published May 2025, on ARCweb.com by Colin Masson This is Blog Post 4 in our series on the Industrial Data Fabric. In our previous posts, we discussed the importance of data quality (Blog Post 1), identified the essential building blocks (Blog Post 2), and described the key emerging archetypes (Blog Post 3). In this… READ MORE
Hello! Welcome back to another weekly blog. This week, I have very much still been hyped on data visualisation! Continuing from my previous posts, you can see what I like about visualisation and why I believe measurement is key to management. I can count on one hand the main KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) to track… and I did!… READ MORE
Note: The views expressed in this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of my employer. The Current World of Digital Analytics In today’s world, packaged analytics tools like Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics and Tealium dominate the market and landscape. Packaged analytics tools are essentially “out-of-the-box” platforms where businesses… READ MORE
We have a new improvement in preview that allows users to make their presentations even more engaging by adding data point annotations to the visuals incorporated into their slides. The Power BI add-in for PowerPoint significantly enhances presentations with live business insights, facilitating data-driven conversations and meetings. Annotations enable users to add descriptive text directly to visualizations, offering contextual… READ MORE
We are introducing Autoscale Billing for Spark in Microsoft Fabric, a new billing model designed to offer greater flexibility and cost efficiency for Spark workloads. With this model, when enabled, your Spark workloads will no longer directly consume the Fabric capacity this billing option is enabled on; instead, they will run alongside your existing capacity (F2 or… READ MORE
Do you need help with data quality? Do you have duplicate vendors and customers in your sales reports? Or do you simply need help identifying all the potential GDPR-affected data in your data estate? All these problems come back to a central issue—your organization’s lack of solid data governance. In this session, you will learn… READ MORE
20250527-ESPC-Fabric-Week-A-Day-In-The-Life-of-a-Fabric.pdf Webinar Description: In this session, we will take a look at tasks and components that can (or should!) be part of a Fabric Admin’s daily routine. – The changed role of the Fabric Admin – Tenant settings – Handling (My) Workspace(s) – Capacity and Admin Monitoring – Power Platform Admin Center I will also show… READ MORE
We’ve all seen the standard Fabric demos online; running data from AdventureWorks, WideWorldImporters or NY taxi through Fabric and quickly create wonderful reports. But, Is this really the amount of data you’re going to process? Can you really tell if Fabric will perform with your data volume? These were questions I had and I tried… READ MORE
