Microsoft: A leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant report
We are thrilled to announce that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools for the fourth year in a row. We believe this recognition reflects our dedication to innovation, excellence, and delivering value to our customers in data integration.
A Leader in Data Integration
We feel that Microsoft’s acknowledgment in the Gartner Magic Quadrant reflects our dedication to innovation and customer-centric solutions. This stems from our relentless drive to advance technology and address the ever-evolving needs of modern organizations.
Our vision for data integration is to deliver seamless, intuitive experiences that empower businesses to unlock the full potential of their data and achieve transformative results. This recognition reinforces our dedication to leading the evolution of data integration and delivering unparalleled value to our customers and partners worldwide.
Microsoft Fabric
Give your teams the AI-powered tools they need for any data project—including workloads tailored to your industry
Microsoft Fabric: Unified Data Platform for the Era of AI
At the core of our data integration strategy is Microsoft Fabric. Built to navigate the complexities of modern data ecosystems, Microsoft Fabric provides an all-in-one, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform with AI-powered services to handle any data project—all within a pre-integrated and optimized environment. It enables organizations to unlock their data’s full potential, drive innovation, and make smarter decisions. Features like Copilot and other generative AI tools introduce new ways to transform and analyze data, generate insights, and create visualizations and reports in Microsoft Fabric.
Microsoft OneLake: The heart of our Data Integration journey
At the center of our Fabric is OneLake, the unified, open data lake that simplifies and accelerates data integration across diverse systems. OneLake, with the data integration capabilities of Fabric, is designed to help you simplify data management and reduce data duplication. OneLake’s open data format means you only need to load the data into the lake once and you can use the single copy across every Fabric workload and engine. It acts as the central hub, ensuring seamless connectivity, accessibility, and collaboration for all your data needs.
OneLake has four innovative pathways for integrating data depending on your needs:
- Fabric Data Factory
Fabric Data Factory integrates seamlessly with OneLake, offering powerful cloud-scale services for data movement, orchestration, transformation, deployment, and monitoring. These capabilities enable organizations to tackle even the most complex ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) scenarios, unifying data estates, streamlining operations, and unlocking the full potential of their data.
- Multi-Cloud Shortcuts
OneLake shortcuts allow you to virtualize data into OneLake from across clouds, accounts, and domains—all without duplication, movement, or changes to metadata or ownership. This capability allows organizations to access and analyze their data in place, without the need for complex data migration processes. By maintaining a live connection to the source, OneLake ensures real-time data availability and consistency across all integrated environments. You can shortcut data from Azure Data Lake Service, S3-compatible sources, Iceberg-compatible sources, Google Cloud Platform, Dataverse, and more.
- Database Mirroring
OneLake offers an innovative zero-ETL approach to database mirroring, simplifying the replication of operational databases into the lake. This capability minimizes the effort required to synchronize databases, supporting real-time changes and ensuring that data is always current and ready for analytics and reporting.
- Real-Time Intelligence
Real-time intelligence in Microsoft Fabric empowers organizations to ingest and process streaming and high granularity data instantaneously, driving real-time insights and automating decision-making. This solution is ideal for applications requiring immediate data updates, such as IoT analytics, fraud detection, and operational dashboards. The capability extends to highly granular data analytics, allowing businesses to track a single package within a global delivery network or monitor a specific component in a manufacturing machine across a fleet of factories worldwide, enabling precise insights and optimized operations. Leveraging cutting-edge data processing frameworks, Eventhouse ensures scalability, reliability, and low-latency performance, making it suitable for high-volume streaming scenarios.
With these innovative pathways, Fabric empowers organizations to break down data silos, optimize workflows, and unlock the full potential of their data. Whether it’s through seamless data integration, real-time insights, or multi-cloud collaboration, Fabric is designed to meet the demands of modern data ecosystems. These enriched features position Fabric as a critical tool for organizations aiming to unlock the full potential of their data while maintaining simplicity, security, and scalability.
Customer success stories
Our customers’ success stories are a testament to the impact of Microsoft Fabric. Organizations across various industries have leveraged our data integration capabilities to unlock new opportunities, drive innovation, and achieve their business goals. By streamlining data processes and improving data quality, Microsoft Fabric has enabled these businesses to make data-driven decisions with confidence.
Read UST Global’s case study to learn how they leveraged the power of Fabric to migrate over 20 years of data, integrating disparate data sources to facilitate better collaboration and innovation among employees.
Looking ahead: The future of Data Integration with Microsoft Fabric
As we celebrate being recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the fourth consecutive year in a row, we are motivated to push the boundaries of what’s possible in data integration. To us, this is a milestone that reflects not only our commitment to innovation but also our dedication to empowering our customers to turn their data into actionable insights.
Looking forward, the roadmap for Microsoft Fabric is filled with exciting enhancements and new features. These advancements are designed to tackle the complexities of modern data ecosystems, making it even easier for organizations to unify, transform, and harness their data at scale. Continuous improvement is at the core of our strategy. We aim to remain at the forefront of the data integration landscape and redefine the possibilities of what a comprehensive data platform can achieve.
We believe this recognition by Gartner is a validation of the trust our customers place in us and a reflection of our relentless drive to deliver world-class solutions. As we continue this journey, we remain committed to collaborating with our community and partners, building on this success to achieve even greater outcomes together.
Resources
- Read the full complimentary report from Gartner.
- Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric
- Data Factory Overview
- Real Time Intelligence
- Transforming Your Business With Real-Time Intelligence
- Getting Started with Microsoft Fabric
- What’s new and planned for Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric
- FAQ
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, By Thornton Craig, Sharat Menon, Robert Thanaraj, Michele Launi, Nina Showell, 3 December 2024
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