The features and capabilities of Microsoft Fabric that I have found most useful include it being a uniform platform. Earlier, I have worked on Azure Data Factories and other Azure services, where for each, the data ingestion, data transformation, then data loading, and Medallion Architecture required different capacities and services. But now, with Microsoft Fabric, we get everything packaged. You just connect with your data source, the Data Factory, the pipelining and creation of Medallion Architecture for the Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers, and the Power BI. All these are integrated and using a single compute, you can avail all these services, which was not possible earlier. I see a huge shift and benefit that I am sure all other technical or business users will agree on. This is the shift that I see, the benefit of Microsoft Fabric. The integration with Power BI has influenced my data visualization through its native availability in Microsoft Fabric. It is automatically available; you just need to add a single item. You select the item you want to work with and type Power BI, and you automatically get options to create the Power BI dashboard. Just as we have Power BI Desktop, Microsoft Fabric also provides Power BI dashboard visualization and real-time dashboards that you can create on the web itself. Additionally, we can create these dashboards on the desktop or a normal laptop with a thick application. When ready for publication, we can simply publish these dashboards to Microsoft Fabric, which automatically follows the same cycle of ingestion, leveraging the unified platform of Microsoft Fabric. It is native, so it feels as though Power BI is automatically part of it while doing development.
