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OneLake is Microsoft Fabric's unified, logical data lake that provides a single copy of data accessible across analytics, AI, and engineering workloads. Discussions on WindowsForum.com cover OneLake's role in enabling zero-copy data sharing with SAP BDC Connect, real-time lakehouse analytics via ClickHouse, and agentic AI data engineering following Microsoft's acquisition of Osmos. Other topics include NetApp ONTAP integration for in-place NAS analytics, Oracle Database replication into OneLake, and migration guidance as Azure ML Data Import retires. These threads highlight OneLake as a central storage layer for multicloud, AI-ready data architectures, with emphasis on governance, performance, and reducing data duplication.
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    Dynamics 365 Customer Insights Data to Fabric OneLake: Profile Shortcuts Planned for October 2026 Preview

    Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Data is lined up to push its unified customer profiles and generated insights into Microsoft Fabric OneLake. The feature is on Microsoft's AI at Work roadmap as item 577816. If you already run Fabric, it could change how your analytics teams get at customer data...
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    Connect Fabric OneLake to Dynamics 365 Customer Insights: Setup, Permissions and Delta Table Limits

    For years, enterprise data architecture has looked like a sprawling municipal plumbing project designed by committee: if you wanted customer records from your analytics lake to show up inside your customer data platform, you usually had to build an extraction pipeline, copy the files into a...
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    ClickHouse for Microsoft Fabric: OneLake Read GA, Write Preview and Data Copying Caveats

    On September 29, ClickHouse announced four additions to its Microsoft partnership at the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference in Barcelona. Each one is at a different stage of readiness, which matters as much as the features themselves. The package covers a native ClickHouse...
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    xMentium Joins Microsoft Fabric IQ Sharing for OneLake Document Data

    Most enterprise data that matters has never been in a database. It sits in PDFs and scanned forms: contracts, engineering drawings, P&ID diagrams, inspection reports, manuals and decades of correspondence. xMentium, a document intelligence company, says it has a faster way to get that material...
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    Atlan Microsoft Fabric Connector: Scanner API Permissions and Lineage Coverage Explained

    At FabCon Europe in Barcelona, Atlan announced it is going after a problem most Microsoft Fabric teams know well. The data may be unified, but the knowledge around it is still scattered: what a metric means, who owns it, where it came from and whether anyone should trust it. Atlan announced a...
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    Azure ML Data Import Retires September 30, 2026: Move to Fabric

    Verdict: move every Azure Machine Learning Data Import or Data Connection workload to a Fabric-managed ingestion design before September 30, 2026, but do not treat Fabric as a like-for-like connector replacement. Use scheduled Fabric Pipelines when Azure ML needs a controlled copy, OneLake...
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    Tata Realty Cuts Analytics Time and Costs With Microsoft Fabric

    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...
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    NetApp ONTAP OneLake Integration for In-Place NAS AI Analytics

    NetApp’s Cloud Volumes ONTAP has entered public preview with a tightly scoped integration for Microsoft OneLake, announced March 10, 2026, that promises to let enterprises surface their existing NAS-held file datasets into Microsoft Fabric’s lake-centric analytics environment via S3-compatible...
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    Microsoft Acquires Osmos to Accelerate Agentic AI in Fabric and OneLake

    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...
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    Microsoft Acquires Osmos to Embed Agentic AI Into Fabric for Autonomous Data Engineering

    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. Background...
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    Oracle Database on Azure: A Practical Multicloud AI and Analytics Blueprint

    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...
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    SAP BDC Connect for Microsoft Fabric: Zero-Copy Bi-Directional Data for AI

    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...
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    ClickHouse Brings Real-Time Lakehouse Analytics via Microsoft OneLake

    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...
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    Quantexa Unify for Microsoft Fabric: AI Powered Entity Resolution in OneLake

    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 —...
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    Backup as Data: Eon and Microsoft Fabric Zero-Copy Analytics with OneLake

    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...
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    Eastman Uses Microsoft Fabric AI Copilot and OneLake for Fast Sales Prep

    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...
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    Crane Case Study: Microsoft Fabric OneLake Delivers Real-Time Global Analytics

    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...
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    Trapeze and Microsoft Forge Real-Time Transit Analytics with Fabric OneLake

    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...
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    Microsoft Fabric expands Oracle/BigQuery mirroring and adds Graph on OneLake

    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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    Purview on Fabric and OneLake: Unified Governance for Safe, Discoverable AI

    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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