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 acquired Seattle startup Osmos and folded its team and technology into the engineering organization behind Microsoft Fabric, a move positioned to accelerate what Microsoft calls “autonomous data engineering” by embedding agentic AI directly into the Fabric data stack.
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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...
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...
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...
ClickHouse’s new integration with Microsoft OneLake delivers a direct bridge between two fast-moving pieces of the modern data stack: the high‑performance, real‑time analytics engine ClickHouse and Microsoft Fabric’s tenant‑wide logical lake, OneLake. Announced in mid‑November 2025, the...
Quantexa’s announcement of Quantexa Unify for Microsoft Fabric promises to turn fractured enterprise data estates into a single, trusted foundation for analytics and AI — delivering advanced entity resolution, no-code configuration, and embedded Power BI visibility inside the Fabric ecosystem —...
Eon’s new integration with Microsoft Fabric and OneLake promises to convert an organization’s most secure, under‑used asset — its database backups — into a live, queryable data layer that supports analytics, AI/ML training, and BI without the usual heavy duplication and ETL overheads, while...
Eastman Chemical’s sales teams are spending a fraction of the time they used to on call preparation and reporting after the company unified its customer data in Microsoft Fabric and layered a voice‑first, Azure OpenAI–powered sales copilot on top of it, according to the vendor case study—an...
iLink Digital’s work with Crane demonstrates how a focused data modernization program, built on Microsoft Fabric and Azure services, can turn fractured reporting and slow decision cycles into a unified, near real‑time decision engine that supports global operations and strategic leadership...
Trapeze Workforce Management has partnered with Microsoft to build a cloud-native, SaaS-based reporting platform that embeds Microsoft Fabric and OneLake to deliver both paginated historical reports and real-time dashboards for transit operations—an initiative funded through Microsoft’s End...
Microsoft’s Fabric platform just widened its berth for enterprise data: Fabric now supports mirroring from Oracle and Google BigQuery into OneLake, and it adds a native graph database built on technology from LinkedIn to model relationships at scale. The mirroring capability creates a Delta...
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Microsoft’s Purview team has positioned the product as the glue between governance, security, and responsible AI use inside Microsoft Fabric—announcing a set of targeted updates at FabCon that aim to make data in OneLake and Fabric workloads both safer and more discoverable for analytics and AI...
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Semarchy’s new integration with Microsoft Fabric delivers a practical bridge between enterprise-grade master data management and the Fabric analytics and AI stack, publishing Semarchy’s enriched “golden” records and semantic models into Microsoft OneLake so Power BI, Fabric services, and GitHub...
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Semarchy’s latest push to embed mastered, governed data into Microsoft’s Fabric stack signals a pragmatic next step in the race to make enterprise data both AI-ready and business-ready — bringing golden records, semantic models, and DataOps workflows directly into OneLake so Power BI, GitHub...
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Sydney Zoo’s IT team has quietly turned a zoo‑wide data tangle into a single analytics surface, adopting Microsoft Fabric to consolidate multiple siloed databases, ingest real‑time operational telemetry and build semantic models that drive business reporting, visitor analytics and future CRM...
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Microsoft’s push to fold advanced generative AI into Azure and Microsoft 365 is no longer an experimental add‑on — it’s a full‑scale platform strategy that reshapes product roadmaps, enterprise buying decisions, and how companies monetize intelligence across workflows.
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Microsoft has quietly folded generative AI into Excel’s calculation engine with a native worksheet function — =COPILOT(... — that accepts plain‑language prompts, reads cell ranges as context, and returns live, spillable outputs directly into the spreadsheet grid. Early previews show it can...
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HGF has engaged Simpson Associates to modernise its entire data estate on Microsoft Fabric and roll out Microsoft Power BI dashboards, a strategic move the IP firm says will centralise data, automate reporting pipelines, and deliver governed, near‑real‑time executive insights across legal...
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HGF has begun a major overhaul of its data estate, choosing Microsoft Fabric as the technical foundation and Microsoft Power BI for reporting, with Simpson Associates engaged to lead platform design, implementation and dashboard delivery—a move that aims to replace fragmented legacy reporting...
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