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Microsoft’s data career ladder has changed, and the difference matters. DP-203 is no longer an active certification exam: Microsoft retired the Azure Data Engineer Associate exam on March 31, 2025, and now points candidates toward DP-700, Fabric Data Engineer Associate, for the modern...

Microsoft is pushing Copilot Studio beyond the old “single agent, single task” model and into something much closer to an enterprise orchestration layer. In its latest update, the company says multi-agent systems are now generally available, alongside changes to the Prompt Builder, broader model...

Prominent Comfort Producten’s move to Microsoft Fabric is a useful snapshot of where retail data strategy is heading in 2026: away from fragmented reporting stacks and toward a governed, AI-ready operating foundation. The Netherlands-based furniture retailer says the shift reduced platform...

Preparing for Azure certification in 2026 means understanding not just what the exams cover, but how Microsoft’s certification roadmap has shifted beneath them. AZ-900 remains the standard entry point for Azure fundamentals, while the older DP-203 data engineering exam was retired on March 31...

Informatica’s latest expansion of its Microsoft partnership is more than another routine cloud announcement. It signals that the race to make enterprise data AI-ready is now being fought at the plumbing layer, not just the model layer. By adding support for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring and...

Informatica’s latest move with Microsoft is more than a routine partner update: it is a signal that the enterprise data market is increasingly being shaped by platform gravity, not just point integrations. The company is expanding its collaboration around Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring and...

Informatica’s expanded collaboration with Microsoft is more than a routine partner announcement: it is a signal that the race to make enterprise data AI-ready is now being fought at the plumbing layer, not just the model layer. By adding support for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring inside...

Informatica’s latest expansion of its Microsoft partnership is more than another routine cloud announcement. It signals a maturing alliance aimed at solving one of the hardest problems in enterprise AI: getting governed, trustworthy, near-real-time data into the places where analytics and...

Informatica’s latest Microsoft collaboration is more than a routine partner update: it is a signal that the data-management layer around Microsoft Fabric is becoming increasingly important to enterprise AI strategy. The company says support for Fabric Open Mirroring in Informatica Intelligent...

Informatica’s latest move with Microsoft Fabric and Azure in Switzerland is more than another cloud partnership press release. It is a signal that enterprise data platforms are being reshaped around two pressures at once: AI-ready data movement and data sovereignty. By deepening its Fabric...

Informatica’s expanding Microsoft Fabric story is becoming more than a connector tale; it is turning into a platform-level alignment that reflects where enterprise data engineering is headed in 2026. The headline change is Informatica IDMC adding support for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring, with...

Microsoft’s latest Fabric database push is another sign that the company wants to own not just the storage layer, but the operational experience around it as well. The new Database Hub, now in early access, is meant to give engineers a single place to manage databases spanning Azure SQL, Azure...

Microsoft is using FabCon and SQLCon 2026 to make a blunt statement about where its data strategy is headed: the company wants databases, analytics, governance, and AI context to feel like parts of one platform rather than separate products. The March 18, 2026 announcement in Atlanta frames...

Informatica is sharpening its Microsoft strategy again, and this time the message is as much about control as it is about connectivity. The company’s newly announced Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring support and a Switzerland-based Azure point of delivery for IDMC show a vendor trying to solve two...

EPC Group’s new six-layer architecture reimagines Microsoft Power BI as an enterprise decision intelligence platform — extending Microsoft’s Copilot with AutoML, LLMs, cognitive enrichment, RAG-based retrieval, agentic automation, and continuous forecasting so that dashboards don’t just report...

Microsoft’s push to fold compute, governance, and assistive AI into a single operational layer is rewriting the rules of logistics execution: where intelligence lives—at the edge, inside the ERP/WMS/TMS, or only in a dashboard—now determines whether a routing recommendation becomes a missed SLA...

Microsoft’s playbook for bringing AI into city halls is deliberately unglamorous: don’t rip out core systems, embed intelligence into the tools people already use, and bake governance and compliance into the data layer so cities can scale from pilot to production without blowing up budgets or...

Spinx’s move to unify its data across systems with LevelShift and Microsoft Fabric is a textbook example of how a modern, cloud-first data foundation can turn fragmented operational data into timely, actionable insight—and lay the groundwork for AI-driven business processes. Background /...

Microsoft’s purchase of Osmos represents a fast-moving bet that agentic AI—software agents that act autonomously to complete multistep tasks—will become a foundational layer of enterprise data platforms rather than a niche add‑on. The deal folds Osmos’s agentic data‑engineering technology...

Microsoft has quietly folded Osmos — a small Seattle startup that built an AI-assisted, agentic data engineering stack — into the Fabric team, embedding its autonomous data-wrangling and ETL automation directly inside OneLake and Microsoft Fabric's Spark ecosystem. Background Microsoft Fabric...