New Capabilities Coming to Microsoft Fabric:
1. OneLake Security:
Introducing OneLake security. OneLake is Fabric’s unified data lake. With centralised data, teams can discover, explore, and manage it in one place, ensuring secure, efficient, and seamless data access.
Managing granular data security across multiple applications and analytics engines is complex, often leading to either excessive restrictions or accidental exposure. OneLake security allows data owners to create security roles, grant precise permissions, and control access at the row and column level—for example, restricting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) while keeping other data available. This security propagates automatically, ensuring that whether users query via SQL or build Power BI reports, they only see what they’re authorised to access.
2. Fabric Copilot:
Copilot and AI capabilities are now available for all SKUs in Fabric, making these tools accessible to everyone. This expansion comes as a result of feedback from customers about the value Copilot in Microsoft Fabric brings to accelerating productivity. With this update, customers can still enable Fabric Copilot capacity to direct charges for Copilot in Fabric usage to a specific Fabric capacity for specific users you select, ensuring Copilot usage doesn’t impact jobs on priority capacities.
3. New Platform Enhancements:
Preview of Fabric Command Line Interface (CLI), new CI/CD enhancements, and User Data Functions.
- The new CLI terminal will allow you to execute commands across Fabric using interactive command-line prompts or a script. It provides a code-first, no clicks experience for users and admins who want to explore and use Fabric via code.
- The CI/CD enhancements include additional capabilities that will enable end-to-end CI/CD support across the Fabric platform with the introduction of variable libraries for workspaces, Service principal support for GitHub, deployment pipelines Fabric APIs phase II. The variable library for workspaces can help you efficiently manage item configurations within a workspace, ensuring scalability and consistency across different lifecycle stages
- User Data Functions allow you to implement and re-use custom, specialised business logic in Fabric data science and data engineering workflows, enabling developers to more easily build custom experiences and improve efficiency.
4. New Workload Enhancements
Data Warehouse Enhancements:
Preview of Code Migration Assistant and general availability of Workload Development Kit.
- The Code Migration Assistant accelerates the migration of SQL Server, Synapse dedicated SQL pools, and other data warehouses to the Fabric Data Warehouse, simplifying modernisation efforts.
- The Workload Development Kit enables developers to build and integrate apps in Fabric.Industry Enhancements:
Preview of Logical Data Modeler enhancements and Manufacturing data solution in Fabric.
- The Logical Data Modeler enhancements provide an exciting new solution for managing industry-standard data models, streamlining Synapse DB templates to help organisations build downstream applications with rich semantics
- The Manufacturing data solution enables synchronisation from siloed data sources across operational technology (OT), information technology (IT), and engineering technology (ET) systems to unlock the potential of their data and lay the foundation for the era of AI.
- Additionally, the Digital Twin Builder allows organisations to gain real-time insights and model, integrate, and contextualise their environments—unlocking real-time insights, smarter decisions, and greater operational efficiency
Telefónica Tech Partnership:
Telefónica Tech are a Feature Fabric Partner. This means we have the opportunity to shape the future roadmap of the product and maintain a direct relationship with the product team, enabling us to provide continuous feedback and support. We also first access to private previews, allowing us to gain firsthand experience with the latest features listed above. This ensures we can advise our customers on how to make the most of the product.
If you have any questions, please reach out to our team or fill in the form below.
Catch up on FabCon Updates
José Mendes, Head of Data Engineering at Telefónica Tech, will host a webinar on 23rd April to discuss key points from FabCon including more detail into the announcements above. As our Fabric leader, José will explain its implications for customers and considerations for adoption.
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