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Microsoft’s DP-900 exam remains the entry point for Azure data certification in 2026, testing foundational knowledge of relational data, non-relational data, analytics workloads, and Azure data services rather than hands-on engineering depth. That makes it a useful credential, but also a ripe...

Informatica from Salesforce announced on May 20, 2026, at Informatica World in Las Vegas that it is deepening its Microsoft partnership by bringing headless data management into Microsoft Foundry and expanding Intelligent Data Management Cloud integration with Microsoft Fabric. The move is not...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in early June to position Microsoft Fabric as the enterprise data and context platform for AI agents, announcing Azure HorizonDB, GPU-accelerated Fabric Data Warehouse, and Fabric IQ integrations aimed squarely at Snowflake, Databricks, and the growing market for...

K–12 districts exploring Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, Purview, and AI-capable Windows hardware in 2026 are being told that readiness begins not with choosing a chatbot, but with building governed, secure, high-quality data systems that educators, administrators, families, and auditors...

EPC Group said on June 1, 2026, that it has been named a Leader in G2’s Summer 2026 Grid Report for Business Intelligence Consulting Providers, marking the Houston Microsoft consultancy’s sixth consecutive quarterly Leader designation in the BI consulting category. The announcement is, on its...

On May 29, 2026, Microsoft said Sonata Software, a publicly traded India-based IT services firm, saved about 200 hours a month after moving forecasting and reconciliation work onto Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Copilot, and Fabric data agents across delivery, sales, finance, and operations. The...

UNC Health has moved its enterprise analytics workloads into Microsoft Fabric, using Microsoft’s software-as-a-service data platform to unify healthcare analytics for care delivery, operations, and research in a governed cloud environment. The move is more than another cloud migration trophy for...

On May 20, 2026, Informatica from Salesforce announced expanded Microsoft integrations that put its Headless Intelligent Data Management Cloud into Microsoft Foundry via MCP servers and extend Microsoft Fabric support with mass ingestion and Change Data Capture for Fabric Data Warehouse. The...

Mediterranean Shipping Company is using SQL Server 2025 and Microsoft Fabric to move global shipping data from delayed batch reporting toward near real-time analytics, while testing database-native AI features such as vector search, embeddings, and semantic querying for future operational...

NTT DATA announced on May 15, 2026, from Plano, Texas, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a California-based Microsoft partner specializing in agentic AI, Azure cloud development, data engineering, and enterprise application modernization. The deal is not just another...

NTT DATA said on May 18, 2026, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Santa Clara-based WinWire, a Microsoft partner focused on Azure, data engineering, cloud-native development, and agentic AI, adding more than 1,000 Azure engineers and AI specialists after closing. The deal is...

NTT DATA signed a definitive agreement in May 2026 to acquire Santa Clara-based WinWire, a Microsoft-focused AI and Azure services partner, adding more than 1,000 Azure engineers and AI specialists to expand enterprise AI, agentic AI, data engineering, and cloud-native transformation work. The...

On May 15, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story saying Italian retail operator Multicedi modernized its data platform with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL Database in Fabric, OneLake, Spark, and AI-assisted analytics to accelerate decisions across more than 600 stores. The headline number...

Microsoft published a March 6, 2026 customer story saying Tata Realty & Infrastructure Ltd. has moved enterprise analytics onto Microsoft Fabric, reducing data processing time by 20 percent and annual analytics costs by 20 to 30 percent while preparing its real estate operations for AI-driven...

Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft are making a familiar industrial promise sound newly urgent: if factories can sense trouble earlier, reason over live data faster, and trigger better responses without waiting for a human to stitch together dashboards, downtime should fall. The companies’ new...

The announcement that System Support has obtained the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization is more than a badge for a subsidiary on a press page. It signals that the company has met Microsoft’s formal bar for analytics capability, including the right mix of Solutions Partner status, Azure...

Nisshin Flour Milling’s push toward a real-time data platform is a useful case study in a much larger manufacturing trend: the move from isolated plant dashboards to shared, enterprise-wide operational intelligence. The company had already modernized its mills with MES-based visualization in the...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot Studio update is a meaningful step toward making enterprise AI feel less like a collection of isolated bots and more like an interconnected operating layer. The company is pushing multi-agent orchestration, Fabric-aware reasoning, and Agent2Agent (A2A) interoperability...

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...