Your Business Needs an Intelligent Data Platform

AI is only as effective as the data it’s built on. In this new reality, growing businesses are moving to unified data platforms, eliminating silos and turning data into decisions for business growth. AXM365 and Microsoft can help bring all your data together in one place, making business insights accessible across teams with Microsoft Fabric.

 

Fabric is a comprehensive, AI -powered data platform built to adapt to the unique needs of your business as it grows. Whether you’re streamlining operations or enhancing analytics for data-driven decision-making, Fabric fits your goals. With built-in security, intuitive tools, and seamless integration across Microsoft 365 productivity apps like Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel, it empowers every team to make smarter decisions and scale confidently on their own terms.

 

Microsoft Fabric is designed to simplify how growing businesses manage, analyze, and act on their data. It unifies your data wherever it lives, giving every team access to a single source of truth. Copilot in Fabric is an integrated AI assistant, so users can simply ask questions about their data and get clear, conversational answers, including charts, visuals, or narrative summaries.

 

 

Centralize Business Data Access with OneLake

 

OneLake is the backbone of a unified data strategy with Fabric. Teams can manage and analyze both structured and unstructured data from across clouds in a single place.

 

Unified data lake: OneLake centralizes data storage and access, eliminating silos and duplication.

 

Data security: OneLake security, with built-in Microsoft Purview protections, centrally manages data access and security.

 

Enable AI: Fuel your own tailor-made generative AI experiences in Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio, with curated data seamlessly flowing from OneLake.

 

Connect data across clouds: Mirroring enables near real-time replica of your data whether it’s stored on-premises or across clouds. Mirrored data is replicated into OneLake, providing a single, unified view.

 

Discover and govern: Surface data with the OneLake catalog for governance protected by Fabric security, while built-in governance capabilities ensure compliance and access control at scale.

 

Microsoft Fabric with Power BI Turns Data into Decisions

 

Unlock analytics with Power BI in Microsoft Fabric transforms business data into clear, actionable insights that help teams make smarter decisions faster.

 

Easy-to-build dashboards: Quickly create interactive dashboards to track performance and spot trends.

 

Real-time data connectivity: With Fabric’s Direct Lake technology, Power BI dashboards update in real time from OneLake. Insights can be shared in seconds.

 

Insights in the flow of work: Embed live Power BI visuals right in Microsoft 365 tools like Teams and PowerPoint, driving informed decisions.

 

AI-powered insights: Use Copilot in Power BI* to ask questions in plain language, summarize insights, and drive faster decisions.

 

Secure sharing and control: Share reports confidently with built-in security and access controls that scale with your business.

 

Copilot in Fabric Turns Insights into Action

 

Boost productivity and insights with Copilot, your AI-powered assistant for data prep, analytics, and reporting in Fabric.

 

Low-code/no-code access: Copilot can automate data ingestion, transformation, and cleansing, thus reducing manual effort and speeding up analytics projects.

 

Natural language Q&A: Ask questions and receive answers as charts, visuals, or narrative summaries.

 

Accelerate productivity: Copilot in Fabric uses generative AI to help users build data pipelines, write SQL, and create Power BI reports using simple prompts.

 

Integrated across Fabric workloads: Access your data across lakehouses, warehouses, pipelines, notebooks, and reports.

 

Multi-agent orchestration with Fabric data agents: Build easy-to-use data agents that help your team quickly find answers and uncover insights from your business data in OneLake.

 

Fabric Real-Time Intelligence (RTI) Delivers Answers Now

 

RTI redefines how businesses operate, compete, and innovate, where every second and every detail counts. This AI-powered, low-code platform empowers you to easily transform highly granular, streaming data into decisive action.

 

 

Whether you’re just starting your AI journey or scaling innovation, Microsoft Fabric sets the foundation for AI transformation with a complete data platform. We can help you confidently deploy and manage Microsoft Fabric which has category-leading performance, instant scalability, shared resilience, and built-in security, governance, and compliance.

A Short Walkthrough into the Amazing Microsoft Fabric World

If you are into Data Analytics you know that the most exciting platform has been GA now – Microsoft Fabric, maybe the most significant one in Microsoft Data Platform space that consolidates Power BI, Azure Synapse, and other applications into one united powerful platform!

 

If you haven’t been inspired yet, now is the time for you to get your free trial license and explore this easy-to-use experience. We have been doing this for almost six months now and are amazed by all the opportunities that this platform can provide for the business.

 

Why Microsoft Fabric is a Great Platform

 

 

It unites the three main Microsoft’s Data Analytics products – Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory and Power BI.

 

• OneLake as Storage;
• Data Factory as Data integration;
• Synapse as Data engineering, Data warehousing, Data science and Real – time analytics;
• Power BI as Business Intelligence;
• Data Activator as Action platform;
• Purview as Governance.

 

What can be easier than having one place for everything?

 

Introduction of the Above-mentioned Products

 

OneLake

 

The descriptive name for this product would be – Collaboration. Every Fabric tenant has no zero, no more, but exactly one OneLake from where can access all its data through data items. All tabular data is stored in one single format – Delta Parquet, the format that allows us to use the same data across different analytical engines (Spark, T – SQL, KQL, Analysis Services, etc.).

What does this mean? If SQL developer using T – SQL loads data in a fully transactional data warehouse, and data engineer loads data into lakehouse using Spark, both are contributing to the same data lake.

 

 

Data Factory

 

The superpower of Data Factory is to transfer billions, trillions of rows of data. For this to be done in Fabric we can choose between Dataflow Gen2 (a more improved new generation of dataflows that allows you to choose the preferred destination for each query result and also, to integrate with data pipelines) and of course Data pipeline (to copy or ingest and clean data).

 

 

Synapse

 

This should not be confused with Azure Synapse Analytics as it’s not the same. Truly it is built on top of the existing Synapse technology but with a lot of improvements to its architecture and functionality. It enables users to build, design and maintain systems and infrastructures that are enabling their organizations to collect, store, process and analyze large volumes of data.

 

For this purpose, Microsoft Fabric has a Lakehouse which can store big structured or unstructured data for cleaning, querying, reporting, and sharing in one location. Once the lakehouse is created it automatically creates Semantic model (Dataset) and SQL analytics end point.

 

 

In the Semantic model we can either choose to have all the tables from Lakehouse or only the ones that will serve us for our purposes.

 

In the SQL analytics endpoint, we can analyze/explore our data and even make additional calculations, create views and measures, and of course, model our tables relations. Don’t get worried because if you want to Spark you have that too! All you need to do is switch to Data Engineering, choose Spark Job Definition, and associate it with the preferred lakehouse:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another useful item that needs attention is the Warehouse – an item that provides strategic insights from multiple sources into your entire business. The data is stored into parquet file format and published as Delta Lake Logs, it is also built for any skill level – from citizen developer through to the professional developer, DBA or data engineer.

 

Having an easily consumable, always connected semantic model that is always integrated with Power BI in DirectLake mode ensures a customer’s report always to has the most recent data for analysis and reporting.

 

Power BI

 

Nothing that you already don’t know – the report editor where you design the reports your customers see, with charts, tables, maps, and other visuals. You can either start creating the report in Power BI Desktop and then publish it to the Power BI service, or you can just click on the “New report” button in your already created SQL analytics endpoint or your Warehouse and let the design imagination begin!

 

 

One thing that must be underlined is that the coupling of Power BI and OneLake is more than just another data source – it comes with a new connection type called DirectLake which is for sure faster than DirectQuery.

 

Data Activator

 

Known as a no-code experience for automatically taking actions when patterns or conditions are detected in changing data, it’s a new tool for building a digital nervous system! You can easily automate actions and set query runs when a certain measure’s value in Power BI goes above or below a particular amount.

 

Purview

 

It helps Fabric users to manage, store, analyze and govern their Fabric data estate. It provides insights through reports about sensitive data, but also provides integrated coverage and helps address the recent increases in remote user connectivity.