Microsoft Fabric upgrades aim for better integration of data and AI agents

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Two years after the debut of Microsoft's "end-to-end, unified analytics platform," Fabric, the company on Monday rolled out new capabilities at its Build 2025 conference. Also: You can try Microsoft's free AI skills training for two more weeks, and I recommend you do The innovations show a maturation of Microsoft's database, reporting, and AI functions as the individual offerings become more integrated. What's new with Fabric? In broad strokes, the main new capabilities include: An automated way for non-coders to make digital twin simulations, called "digital twin builder in Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence"; An ability to create data dashboards from scratch using natural language via an inbuilt version of Microsoft's Copilot generative AI chatbot; An ability to bring "semi-structured" data into Fabric via the integration of Cosmos DB, Microsoft's NoSQL database offering; An agent service to funnel data from Microsoft's OneLake repository in ... Read full article.