That’s a wrap for Build 2025!
Microsoft Build 2025 delivered a powerful vision for the future of data and AI, with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI at the heart of the story. From AI-powered productivity with Copilot to deep integration with Cosmos DB, this year’s announcements reinforced Microsoft’s commitment to unifying the data experience across roles, tools, and industries.
Fabric: The Unified Data Foundation Expands
Fabric continues to evolve as the end-to-end service for data engineering, science, warehousing, and real-time intelligence.
- Fabric Roadmap Tool: A new centralized hub for tracking upcoming features across Fabric workloads, offering real-time updates and integration with internal planning tools.
- Cosmos DB in Fabric (Preview): Bringing AI-ready NoSQL capabilities into the Fabric ecosystem.
- Mirroring Enhancements: Expanded support for SQL Server, Azure PostgreSQL, and Cosmos DB, enabling real-time replication and analytics.
- Digital twin builder (Preview): Introduced as a new artifact within Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, digital twin builder enables users to create and manage digital representations of real-world environments using a low-code/no-code interface.
These updates reflect Fabric’s growing maturity as a platform that supports both technical depth and business agility.
Power BI: Intelligent and Everywhere
Build 2025 showcased how Power BI is evolving to meet the needs of both business users and developers. Most notably:
- Standalone Copilot in Power BI (Preview): Users can now “Ask Anything” using natural language, powered by Fabric’s semantic models.
- Translytical Task Flows: Automate report actions and enable data write-back directly from Power BI reports .
Blogs, blogs, and more blogs
If you want to learn more about everything that landed at Build, be sure to check out the Power BI and Fabric May Feature Summaries as well as all the other blog posts from this week.
Monthly Updates Blog
Power BI
- Translytical task flows (Preview)
- The next era of Copilot in Power BI: Chat with your Data (Preview)
- Extracting deeper insights into Fabric Data Agents in Copilot in Power BI
Fabric Platform
- Fabric CLI Explore and Automate Microsoft Fabric from Your Terminal (Generally Available)
- What’s New with Fabric CI/CD
Data Engineering
- Simplifying Medallion Implementation with Materialized Lake Views in Fabric
- Native Execution Engine for Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering (Generally Available)
Data Science
Data Warehouse
Real-Time Intelligence
- Digital twin builder in Microsoft Fabric – Revolutionizing Digital Twin creation and management (Preview)
- Elevate how your organization operates using Real-Time Intelligence, now enhanced with Digital Twin Builder
- Continuous ingestion from Azure Storage to Eventhouse using Azure Events (Preview)
- JSON type and JSON aggregates (Generally Available)
Databases
- Get to insights faster with SaaS databases and “chat with your data”
- Cosmos DB in Fabric – Gated Preview
Data Factory
- What’s new with Mirroring at Microsoft Build 2025
- Open Mirroring (Generally Available)
- Mirroring SQL Server in Fabric for (Preview)
- Materialized Lake Views at Build 2025
- Private endpoint support – New features in Mirroring for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Streamline Your Data Operations: Mirroring Azure Database for PostgreSQL in Microsoft Fabric for Effortless AI and Analytics on your Transactional Data
- Dataflow Gen2 (CI/CD) GA + Public APIs
- New Copilot experience in Dataflows Gen2: Natural language to custom column
- Simplify Your Data Ingestion with Copy Job – Introducing Native Change Data Capture Support
- AI-powered development with Data pipeline – Boost your productivity in updating and understanding pipeline with Copilot
- SharePoint files destination the first file-based destination for Dataflows Gen2
OneLake
- Connect to your most sensitive data with end-to-end network security in Fabric
- Use OneLake shortcuts to connect to Azure blog storage to unlock all your unstructured data
- Encrypt data at rest in your Fabric workspaces using customer-managed keys (Preview)
Final Thoughts
Build 2025 made it clear: Microsoft Fabric is the future of data. Fabric empowers every user—from analysts to engineers—to build, explore, and act on data with unprecedented speed and intelligence. As always, be sure to submit your feedback on Fabric Ideas and join the conversation on the Fabric Community.
