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Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence: A Leader in the 2025 Forrester Streaming Data Wave

Businesses and organizations are entering a new operational era defined by immediacy, intelligence, and continuous adaptation. AI is shifting expectations across every industry. Organizations now need to sense what is happening across their business the moment it occurs, understand its significance, and respond with confidence. Real-time data has become the foundation for how resilient, competitive …

Fabric Extensibility Toolkit: Publishing Workloads announcements

As part of FabCon Vienna, we introduced the Microsoft Fabric Extensibility Toolkit (FET) to provide both customers and partners with an easy and robust way for building and delivering innovative workloads on Microsoft Fabric. The Toolkit is designed to foster creativity and enable seamless integration of new solutions into the Fabric ecosystem. Today, we are …

How does Fabric make Spark Notebooks Instant?

Discover how Microsoft Fabric’s Forecasting Service system reduces Spark startup latency and cloud costs through proactive AI and ML-driven resource provisioning. Context & Relevance Waiting minutes for a Spark cluster to become available can throttle analytics velocity, delay insights, and drive-up cloud spend. In a world where data teams expect near‐instant execution and seamless burst …

Optimizing Permissions with OneLake Security ReadWrite Access

Many data teams face the same challenge: balancing the need for open collaboration with the responsibility of protecting sensitive information. As organizations grow, data often lives across multiple domains—some containing critical or confidential datasets—while partner teams may only need access to a subset of that information. Until recently, maintaining this balance often meant trade-offs. Teams …

Billing for Anomaly Detector in Real-Time Intelligence

We have an important update for customers using Anomaly Detector in Microsoft Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence (RTI). This feature, currently in Preview, helps you spot unusual patterns in streaming data from Eventhouse tables—without the need for complex data science tools. It’s designed to make anomaly detection simple, fast, and accessible. What does billing entail? Starting in …