Preface

Building end-to-end analytics systems has been a real challenge for organizations across the globe. While there are many services/products to cater to a specific need for the analytics system, there is no single service/product that provides complete analytics cohesively and coherently. This means customers spend a fair amount of time stitching together these services as well as managing multiple copies of their data across different data stores, rather than focusing on creating business value for their organization.

Microsoft Fabric is the first and only service/product on the market that provides a unified and complete analytics platform, built from the ground up for the era of AI. It offers an integrated experience, all the way from data integration to OneLake, data transformation, visualization, and a unified business model.

This book starts with an overview and the concepts of Microsoft Fabric and then, step by step, demonstrates building analytics systems for different types of real use cases that organizations often work with, such as lakehouses, data warehouses, real-time analytics, and data science. Finally, it talks about different manageability aspects, such as monitoring, security, DevOps, and using Copilot to supercharge developers’ productivity.