Microsoft Fabric and the Future of Power BI

With the emergence of Microsoft Fabric as Microsoft’s end-to-end data engineering and analytics solution, Power BI’s role in this space should be reviewed.

Microsoft Fabric offers several workloads that cover the diverse stages of storing, processing, and analyzing data. These workloads include:

• Data Engineering: Create lakehouses and operationalize workflows to build, transform, and share your data estate.

• Data Factory: Ingest, transform, and orchestrate data.

• Data Science: Detect trends, identify outliers, and predict values using machine learning.

• Data Warehouse: Combine multiple sources in a traditional warehouse for analytics.

• Databases: Create and manage databases with tools to insert, query, and extract data.

• Industry Solutions: Use out-of-the-box industry data solutions.

• Real-Time Intelligence: Process, monitor, and analyze streaming data.

• Power BI: Create reports and dashboards to make data-driven decisions.