Category: Microsoft Fabric

Uplift your storytelling by using annotations on your Power BI visualization in PowerPoint
Uplift your storytelling by using annotations on your Power BI visualization in PowerPoint
Blog Posts

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

Introducing Autoscale Billing for Spark in Microsoft Fabric
Introducing Autoscale Billing for Spark in Microsoft Fabric
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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

Getting Started with Data Governance in Microsoft Fabric
Getting Started with Data Governance in Microsoft Fabric
Webinars

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

A Day In The Life Of A(n Accidental) Fabric Administrator
A Day In The Life Of A(n Accidental) Fabric Administrator
Webinars

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

Let your Fabric work! Loadtesting large amounts of data
Let your Fabric work! Loadtesting large amounts of data
Webinars

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

Execute Fabric Data Pipeline from Azure Data Factory
Execute Fabric Data Pipeline from Azure Data Factory
Blog Posts

In the blog post Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory I explained how you can call a Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure Data Factory (or Synapse if you will). Let’s go a step further and execute a Fabric Data Pipeline from an ADF pipeline, which is a common request. A Fabric capacity cannot… READ MORE

5 Trends in the Data Lakehouse Space
5 Trends in the Data Lakehouse Space
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Free Copy of Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide Free Apache Iceberg Crash Course The data lakehouse is emerging and evolving as the next iteration of analytical data architecture. It builds on previous approaches by integrating the data lake and data warehouse, which were traditionally separate, and reimagining the tightly coupled components of a data warehouse… READ MORE

Real-Time Dashboards
Real-Time Dashboards
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Real-Time Dashboards With the Real-Time Intelligence suite in Microsoft Fabric, we have everything we need to build an analytics solution for our streaming and telemetry data. One of the missing pieces in that puzzle has been the capability to get real-time insights on the data arriving in the data estate. A few months back, we… READ MORE

Fabric Security is a Team Sport Now – For Everyone
Fabric Security is a Team Sport Now – For Everyone
Blog Posts

In times of data breaches and millions of customer entries breached, the security of your data platform is one of the things you need to consider upfront and – preferably in all your data solutions. When Microsoft Fabric was announced the concepts of connecting to other parts of your already secured data platform in Azure… READ MORE