VentureBeat November 19, 2024
For years, enterprise companies have been plagued by data silos separating transactional systems from analytical tools—a divide that has hampered AI applications, slowed real-time decision-making, and driven up costs with complex integrations. Today at its Ignite conference, Microsoft announced a major step toward breaking this cycle.
The tech giant revealed that Azure SQL, its flagship transactional database, is now integrated into Fabric, Microsoft’s unified data platform. This integration allows enterprises to combine real-time operational and other historical data into a single, AI-ready data later called OneLake.
This announcement represents a critical evolution of Microsoft Fabric, its end-to-end data platform, which also includes new capabilities like real-time intelligence and the general availability of the OneLake catalog (see our full coverage...