Why Fabric
Experience the next generation in analytics
- Give your teams the AI-powered tools they need for any data project—including workloads tailored to your industry.
- Save time and money with an experience that’s easy to set up and uses a single resource pool to power all your workloads.
- Give data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and business users the AI-powered tools they need to get more done in less time.
- Build powerful apps at scale with a simplified database experience that unifies all your workloads.
- Combine data from nearly any source into a single, multi-cloud data lake for your entire organisation, and work from the same copy of data across different analytics engines and languages.
- Minimize data duplication and movement by virtualizing data in OneLake using shortcuts—all while working from a single copy of data across different analytics engines.
- Easily import data of any format into OneLake and take advantage of built-in tools from top industry providers.
- Make your data easy to find in a catalog while using security and governance tools to control data access and improve data quality.
- Help your teams understand your data with AI-enhanced Q&As from Copilot, plus visual representations of your insights embedded directly in Microsoft 365 apps.
- Help analysts save time and get clear, up-to-date insights using tools like Copilot in Fabric and Direct Lake storage mode.
- Seamlessly incorporate data into your workflow by securely embedding insights into the Microsoft 365 apps your teams already use.
- Empower decision-makers with actionable insights from Copilot for Power BI.
- Confidently deploy and manage Microsoft Fabric with category-leading performance, instant scalability, and shared resilience alongside security, governance, and compliance tools.
- Design mission-critical systems with a resilient foundation on Fabric using solid infrastructure and built-in disaster recovery tools.
- Effectively manage your data across a unified platform with industry-leading security and federated governance tools.
- Efficiently process large amounts of data with industry-leading performance across analytics engines.
Capabilities
Explore new ways to work with your data
Features of Microsoft Fabric
Improve how your entire team uses data with workloads and tools for every user.
Data integration
Unify your data estate with integration tools that allow you to solve your most complex ETL scenarios.
Data engineering
Design systems to help you organize and analyze large volumes of data.
Data science
Use AI tools to build end-to-end workflows, enrich data, and improve insights.
Data warehouse
Scale compute and storage independently with industry-leading SQL performance.
Real-time intelligence
Explore, analyze, and act on large volumes of streaming data in near-real time with high performance and low latency.
Business intelligence
Turn your data into visually immersive, interactive insights and embed them in Microsoft 365.
Copilot in Fabric
Accelerate productivity and creativity with natural-language prompts in notebooks, pipelines, and reports.
Databases
Create powerful, insight-driven apps at cloud scale with a unified database experience.
Data lake
Access your entire multi-cloud data estate from a single data lake spanning your entire organisation.
Demos
Explore key features of Microsoft Fabric
See how the role-specific workloads within Fabric can help everyone in your organisation manage, interpret, and act on data and insights.
SECURITY AND GOVERNANCE
Manage your data with confidence using industry-leading security and federated governance tools
Use Fabric’s built-in tools—like OneLake security and the OneLake catalog—alongside advanced and estate-wide tools from Microsoft Purview for end-to-end security and governance.
Customer stories
Why organisations choose Fabric
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Choose a Fabric plan that’s right for you or use our capacity estimator to learn more about your team’s needs.
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