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...
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Informatica and Microsoft are expanding their collaboration around Microsoft Fabric, with Informatica adding support for Fabric Open Mirroring inside IDMC. Microsoft Fabric’s mirroring docs explain that Open mirroring lets applications write change data...
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.
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Mustafa Suleyman’s offhand description of Elon Musk as a “bulldozer” and his praise for Sam Altman as “courageous” crystallize a moment in the AI industry where personalities, infrastructure, and governance are colliding — and Microsoft’s AI chief is placing himself squarely at the center of...
YASH Technologies will be on the FABCON & SQLCON 2026 expo floor in Atlanta to demonstrate a packaged approach for building an “AI‑ready data foundation” powered by Microsoft Fabric — a move that crystallizes how systems integrators are positioning themselves around Fabric’s OneLake, Fabric...
Kanerika’s new Microsoft specialization signals a growing trend: systems integrators are converting product familiarity into auditable, partner‑program credentials that buyers should value — but also verify. Kanerika announced it has been awarded the Data Warehouse Migration to Microsoft Azure...
Kanerika’s announcement that it has earned the Data Warehouse Migration to Microsoft Azure specialization marks a notable step in the company’s Microsoft partnership journey and signals a concrete capability for migrating legacy enterprise warehouses to Azure analytics platforms — but the badge...
Microsoft’s claim that algorithms are worthless without data has quietly become the operating principle for organizations trying to scale AI beyond pilots, and nowhere is that maxim more tangible than in the company’s Azure Data Analytics stack — a stitched-together ecosystem of ingestion...
Oracle and Microsoft’s evolving multicloud play is no longer just a strategic press release — it’s an operational blueprint enterprises are using today to combine Oracle’s mission‑critical database capabilities with Azure’s AI, analytics, and governance stack. Recent announcements and product...
AVEVA’s rise as Microsoft’s 2025 Manufacturing Partner of the Year is a clear signal that hyperscale cloud, unified analytics, and industrial domain expertise are converging into a repeatable playbook for factory‑scale AI and operational intelligence. Background / Overview
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SAP and Microsoft have announced a tighter integration that promises to bring semantically rich SAP data into Microsoft’s AI-ready data fabric — Microsoft Fabric — using a bi-directional, zero-copy sharing model that aims to accelerate analytics and enterprise AI by eliminating traditional...
LTIMindtree has formally expanded its global collaboration with Microsoft, positioning itself as a deeper Global System Integrator (GSI) for Azure and promising to accelerate enterprise adoption of Microsoft Azure, Azure OpenAI (via Microsoft Foundry), Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Microsoft Fabric...