Elevate your data insights with the latest Microsoft Fabric updates and exclusive events
In a data-driven landscape, missing out on key insights can hinder growth and lead to costly mistakes. Across industries, organizations are leveraging Microsoft Fabric for valuable insights that will optimize their operations, uncover growth opportunities, and mitigate risks—all within a unified, AI-powered environment that brings together Power BI, Data Factory, and Synapse Analytics.
There’s a lot of exciting developments in the world of Fabric, so in this blog we’ll introduce new features, events, and the new Plan on Microsoft Learn, “Make your data AI ready with Microsoft Fabric,” designed to help you and your team unlock Fabric’s full potential for transformative insights. Let’s get going!
Build AI apps faster with the new Fabric Databases
By simplifying complex data processes and eliminating the need to rely on multiple solutions, Microsoft Fabric helps businesses harness data for smarter decision-making and a competitive edge. This advantage becomes crucial in the drive to build resilient, scalable AI applications that need intuitive and autonomous databases that provision in seconds. That’s where our new Fabric Databases comes in.
A truly unified data platform, Fabric Databases unites transactional and analytical workloads that instantly make available SQL data for Fabric to scrutinize. As the first database engine to land on Fabric, SQL database is built on the same industry leading SQL Server engine, only now on a simple and intuitive software as a service (SaaS) platform. With Fabric Databases, your team can build reliable, highly scalable applications where cloud authentication and encryption are secured by default.
To help you explore all that Fabric Databases have to offer, we’ve begun a series of live sessions with database experts to demonstrate just how easy it is to get started. View the schedule and register for the series here.
Develop your Fabric expertise with a new Plan on Microsoft Learn
Whichever career path you’re pursuing, you can start preparing for your certification exams now with our new Plan on Microsoft Learn dedicated to Fabric.
The “Make your data AI ready with Microsoft Fabric” Plan is designed to help you harness AI to unify your intelligent data and analytics on the Fabric platform, guiding you through key learning milestones:
- Ingesting data through shortcuts, pipelines, and dataflows.
- Transforming data using dataflows, procedures, and notebooks.
- Storing processed data in the lakehouse and data warehouse for easy retrieval.
- Exposing data by creating reusable semantic models in Power BI, making transformed data accessible for analysis.
Join a community of Fabric users and experts at FabCon Las Vegas
Excited to try Fabric Databases, and want to see what other innovations we have in store? Join us at FabCon Las Vegas from March 31 to April 2, 2025, for the ultimate Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL, and AI community-led event. Whatever your role, attendees at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference can look forward to in-depth explorations and demos of the latest updates, including:
- Over 144 sessions with speakers covering exciting new Fabric features and skilling opportunities.
- 18 pre- and post-conference workshops.
- A dedicated day for partners before the conference.
- All-day Ask-the-Experts hours.
- Over 20 expo booths.
- After-hours events and socials.
- The Community Lounge, offering face time with industry experts.
Don’t miss out! Register today to grab the early bird discount and use code MSCUST for $150 off registration.
Data professionals prove their skills at Fabric and AI Learning Hackathon
As we look forward to the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, the Microsoft Fabric and AI Learning Hackathon is wrapping up with an exciting finish. Since September, 2024, IT professionals worldwide have participated in this online hackathon, building innovative AI solutions, chatbots, and natural language processing tools with Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI.
Participants joined workshops, collaborated with experts, and competed for top prizes. The hackathon required completing a Microsoft Learn Challenge to enter, and winners will be announced on December 16, 2024—stay tuned to see which AI solution takes the prize!
Take the challenge and get certified as a Fabric Analytics Engineer
Missed the Hackathon but still want to prove your skills? Or are you just looking to prepare for the next generation of data analysis and accelerate your career as analytics professional? Then we have the perfect challenge for you.
Get ready for your future as a Microsoft Certified Fabric Analytics Engineer by joining our Microsoft Fabric Skills Challenge. This immersive, gamified learning experience blends hands-on exercises, tutorials, and assessments to ensure a well-rounded learning experience. Benchwork your progress against your peers and develop marketable skills to advance your career.
You’ll have 30 days to complete just 13 hours of content, which will prepare you to take the Fabric Analytics Engineer Certification Exam. Certified individuals are highly sought after by employers for their skills, and this exam validates your proficiency in utilizing the Fabric platform for data management and leveraging AI capabilities.
The challenge ends on January 10, 2025, so don’t delay—join today!
Coming soon: A new Fabric Data Engineer Associate certification
We’re also thrilled to announce an all-new certification for data engineers. The new Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate certification will help you demonstrate your skills with data ingestion, transformation, administration, monitoring, and performance optimization in Fabric. To earn this Certification, you’ll have to pass Exam DP-700: Implementing Data Engineering Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric, which is currently in beta and generally available soon.
Now is the time to start your Fabric journey
As you can see, we have a treasure chest of Microsoft Fabric updates and events to explore, with interactive activities, exciting challenges, and expert-led deep dives to help you stretch your knowledge. The perfect place to start is our Plan on Microsoft Learn, “Make your data AI ready with Microsoft Fabric,” which provides a comprehensive guide to leveraging Fabric for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and visualization, empowering your team to build robust data pipelines and extract valuable insights from your data.
Whether you’re an experienced data professional or just getting started, we look forward to you joining the Fabric community!
