Microsoft Fabric The Big Picture: A Manager's and Engineer's Overview of Microsoft's Unified Data and Analytics Platform

Data has become a critical competitive asset—but most organizations struggle with fragmented analytics. Different tools for ingestion, transformation, warehousing, reporting, and AI create complexity, cost overruns, and vendor sprawl. Microsoft Fabric changes that equation by unifying everything into a single SaaS platform built on OneLake.

This book is for the managers and engineers who need to understand Fabric and deploy it responsibly.

You will learn how to:

• Understand Microsoft Azure as the cloud foundation underlying Fabric—compute, storage, networking, and how they support the unified analytics vision • Master data warehousing concepts—why they matter, how they've evolved, and where Fabric's approach differs from traditional architectures • Evaluate Fabric's value proposition from a manager's perspective—cost, complexity, vendor consolidation, and organizational readiness • Navigate Microsoft Fabric's architecture: the multi-cloud bottom layer, OneLake data storage center, and the workload layer • Understand every core workload: Power BI, Data Factory, Data Activator, Synapse Data Engineering, Synapse Data Warehousing, Synapse Data Science, Real-Time Intelligence, and Industry Solutions • See how OneLake and the Lakehouse unification model eliminate data silos by giving your entire organization a single, governed data lake • Leverage the benefits of Fabric: simplified analytics, reduced vendor sprawl, unified governance, and AI integration in one platform • Understand how workload integration creates compound value—data flowing seamlessly from ingestion through transformation, analysis, and action • Use Copilot in Microsoft Fabric—AI-assisted data exploration, query generation, report building, and natural language interaction with your data • Deploy Fabric using CI/CD pipelines on Azure—version control, automated testing, and governed release management • Implement Fabric's security, governance, and administration—access control, data classification, sensitivity labels, and compliance monitoring • Apply IT governance frameworks to Fabric deployments—ensuring the platform operates within enterprise risk and compliance requirements • Build IT policy frameworks that address Fabric-specific concerns: data handling, acceptable use, access management, and incident response • Follow the systems development lifecycle applied to Fabric projects—from planning through deployment and ongoing operations • Learn from a healthcare case study demonstrating OneLake in a real-world clinical and operational environment

Written for managers evaluating Fabric and engineers implementing it.

© 2024 PublishDrive (E-bog): 9781972752333

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E-bog: 1. oktober 2024