The future of enterprise data platforms: AI and Microsoft fabric are reshaping analytics

For most of my career, I have watched companies spend more time moving data than understanding it. Reports lived in one tool, the warehouse in another, and the people who needed answers waited in a queue for someone in Information Technology (IT) to build a dashboard. That gap between having data and acting on it has quietly cost businesses years of momentum. What I saw at this year’s FabCon in Atlanta tells me that gap is finally starting to close.

Microsoft Fabric began as an attempt to put storage, engineering, analytics, and reporting under one roof.