Discover Microsoft Fabric
Improve how your entire team uses data
- Eliminate sprawl—establish an open and lake-centric hub that helps you connect and curate data from anywhere.
- Accelerate analysis by developing AI models on a single foundation without data movement—reducing time to value.
- Innovate faster by helping everyone act on insights in Microsoft 365 apps, such as Microsoft Teams and Excel.
- Responsibly connect people and data using an open platform with built-in security, governance, and compliance.
- Unite all your data and users in one data lake while defining domains that help organize, manage, and govern your data mesh.
- Load data of any format into the lake one time and access that single copy across any Fabric analytics engine.
- Create shortcuts to connect Azure Databricks, Amazon Web Services, and more without duplicating, moving, or changing ownership.
- Manage all your data from a single hub indexed for searchability, governance, and compliance.
- Visually connect your on-premises and cloud-based sources with more than 150 connectors.
- Unify your data estate by combining the intuitiveness of Power Query with the scalability of Azure Data Factory.
- Give data teams the tools needed to consolidate hybrid data, helping them monitor and manage data across your organization.
- Provide data engineers with authoring experiences that support data analysis and collaboration.
- Scale compute and storage independently with industry-leading SQL performance.
- Quickly create predictive AI models at scale and boost collaboration when deploying and managing machine learning models.
- Seamlessly discover, manage, and consume streams and events from diverse sources across clouds in a single experience using open-source APIs with the real-time hub feature, part of Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric.
- Easily investigate high-volume, high-granularity data with real-time dashboards and visual exploration experiences.
- Scale beyond human monitoring and drive actions within Fabric or other systems when patterns or conditions are detected in changing data.
- Create impactful reports and discover key insights from your data with easy-to-use tools and engaging visuals.
- Use natural language prompts to create reports, understand data, and summarize insights with Copilot for Power BI.
- Deliver data reports and insights directly within the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day.
Frequently asked questions
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Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end analytics solution with full-service capabilities including data movement, data lakes, data engineering, data integration, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence—all backed by a shared platform providing robust data security, governance, and compliance.
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Copilot in Fabric is now generally available—read the announcement blog to learn more.
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Sign in to the Fabric app using your Microsoft Power BI account, and then sign up for a free trial using the account manager tool in the app. After it’s activated, select the Power BI icon in the lower left to switch to another experience and get started. If the tool doesn’t show an option to start the trial, then your tenant admin has disabled access to Fabric or trials.
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The Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog has the latest news and feature releases, including announcements from recent events.
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Yes. Azure Databricks supports the open Delta Lake and Apache Parquet storage format that Microsoft Fabric is built on, enabling Azure Databricks to work with OneLake—the unified data lake within Fabric. Learn more about connecting OneLake with Azure Databricks.
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New customers can sign in to the Fabric app and select Start trial within the account manager tool in the Fabric app—no credit card required.
Existing Power BI customers can sign in to the Fabric app with your Power BI account information, and then start your free trial using the account manager tool in the app. If the account manager tool doesn’t show an option to start the trial, then your tenant administrator has disabled access to either Fabric or trials. You may still purchase Fabric through the Azure portal using the link in the account manager tool. -
Use Microsoft Fabric by purchasing Fabric capacity, a billing unit that enables each Fabric experience. Pay for every data tool in one transparent, simplified pricing model and save time for other business needs. See Fabric pricing.
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Existing Microsoft products, such as Azure Data Factory, will continue to provide a robust, enterprise-grade platform as a service (PaaS) solution for data analytics. Fabric represents an evolution in the form of a simplified software as a service (SaaS) solution that can connect to existing PaaS offerings. Migration paths will soon be available to help transition teams that are ready to switch services.
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Read Fabric release plan documentation.
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