At Fabcon Europe 2025, Microsoft unveiled a range of new features designed to significantly enhance the user experience for both technical and non-technical audiences.
In the overview below, we highlight the key improvements, explain which features make them possible and outline who will benefit most.
Organisations have long struggled with data silos—SAP in one corner, Oracle in another, and countless other systems scattered across the landscape. Traditionally, bringing this data together into a single view relied on slow, fragile ETL pipelines.
With Fabric’s new mirroring capabilities, SAP and Oracle data can now be connected directly into OneLake, ensuring continuous data flow that is always up to date.
In addition, Materialised Lake Views bring built-in data quality and lineage to the platform. Rather than depending on custom frameworks, engineers can simply declare checks in Spark SQL or PySpark and automatically generate quality reports along with clear lineage visualisations.
AI adoption often falters when data is not accessible in the right place. Fabric addresses this challenge by embedding AI directly into the environments where people already work:
Copilot: integrated into everyday applications, providing answers in plain language.
AI Agents: rapidly built with OneLake data and seamlessly deployed into Teams, Power BI, or Azure AI Studio.
Managing security across Spark, SQL and BI has traditionally led to duplication and inconsistency. Fabric resolves this with centralised security and governance: define roles once and apply them everywhere.
In addition, customer-managed keys help organisations meet compliance requirements, while workplace-level network rules minimise the risk of misconfiguration.
Data teams often find themselves bogged down by maintaining pipelines, waiting on vendor-driven features, and navigating cumbersome tooling. Fabric streamlines modern engineering with Git-native CI/CD, open-source extensibility, next-generation Spark performance and an improved, more intuitive user interface.