Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

From Lakehouse to boardroom: Analytics and AI for real insights

An end-to-end look at what we’re shipping in Fabric Analytics, what we are prioritizing, and real AI value. Every enterprise I speak with wants the same thing from AI: measurable business value. That value doesn’t emerge from isolated tools or experimental notebooks. It shows up where business users already work—inside Microsoft 365, where decisions are made every day in Excel, Teams, Outlook, and Copilot.

Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary

Welcome to the Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary—and welcome to FabCon! As we kick off FabCon, this update captures the momentum we’re seeing across the Fabric platform and the conversations happening with customers and partners right now. March brings a wide range of enhancements across governance, data engineering, real-time intelligence, data science, extensibility, and AI—all … Continue reading “Fabric March 2026 Feature Summary”

Operationalizing Agentic Applications with Microsoft Fabric

Agentic apps are moving quickly from prototypes to real workloads. But once you go beyond a proof of concept (POC), the hard part isn’t getting an agent to respond; it’s knowing what the agent did, whether it was safe and correct, and how it’s impacting the business. Let’s explore what it takes to operationalize agentic … Continue reading “Operationalizing Agentic Applications with Microsoft Fabric”

ExtractLabel: Schema-driven unstructured data extraction with Fabric AI Functions

Most enterprise data lives in free text – tickets, contracts, feedback, clinical notes, and more. It holds critical information but doesn’t fit into the structured tables that pipelines expect. Traditionally, extracting structure meant rule-based parsers that break with every format to change, or custom NLP models that take weeks to build. LLMs opened new possibilities, … Continue reading “ExtractLabel: Schema-driven unstructured data extraction with Fabric AI Functions”

Update to required permissions for Semantic Models in Fabric Data Agents

We’re announcing an update to the permissions required to interact with semantic models in Fabric data agents. Today: As a creator, you must have access to the workspace where the semantic model lives and Build permission on the semantic model to add semantic model to a data agent. As a consumer, you need Read access … Continue reading “Update to required permissions for Semantic Models in Fabric Data Agents”