Who has already started using Microsoft Fabric? I would like to get some feedback from companies that are currently using MS Fabric as an end-to-end analytics platform: - Azure data factory with fabric?  - Purview from fabric as data catalog? - Feedback from several personas using the same platform (data scientists/data engineers/Business analysts).  How and when did start a PoC?  Are you using Fabric for both BI and advanced analytics use cases? 

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Data Scientist8 months ago

We use MS Fabric for BI mostly, I can provide insights

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no title8 months ago

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1835702170574652240-microsoft-one-lake-other-unsegmented-en-united-states public facing article on how one of our sister teams is currently customer zero for Fabric

VP of Dataa year ago

My team has implemented ADF, Synapse, Fabric during the last 10+years. I can connect you with my Data and analytics practice lead to provide a in-depth analysis on this front.

Chief Data Officer in Educationa year ago

At W&M we are just starting a MS Fabric pilot. Our intent is to prove out the platform and understand capabilities to govern data and deliver BI and advanced analytics in a shared platform that also supports sandboxes for data exploration.  

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no title7 months ago

Barbara Forth, could you share the outcome of your evaluation?

IT, Director Analytics Technology & Architecturea year ago

We are going to start a POC soon to compare MS Fabric vs Snowflake vs Azure Databricks

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no titlea year ago

any insights you can share.. thankyou

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no title8 months ago

Any updates on the POC? <br>Thanks!

IT Analyst2 years ago

We are currently evaluating MS Fabric with pre-defined Use-Cases, collected within a Testers community. Purview has been assessed ~6month ago and is out of scope for us.
In scope are standard BI and advanced analytics, ML use-cases as we created a very managed environment with Azure Services+Databricks which comes quite close to MS Fabric as SaaS offering.
We adressed the topic and opportunity in some councils with business involvement and asked if they want to actively contribute (and provide use-cases) or just want to be informed about the results.
We see it as very important to have the whole initiative centrally governed by IT, but support the heavy and early interest of our business.

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no title2 years ago

Dear Sascha, <br>based on your evaluation, could you please share which are the wider gaps of functionalties you found in MS Fabric? Specifically, how are you implementing Data Governance with Fabric?

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