The Microsoft Fabric Community Conference is back in Las Vegas this week, and it’s going to be bigger and better than ever. We would like to extend our gratitude to our attendees, speakers, customers, and dedicated teams for making FabCon 2025 an unforgettable event.

Microsoft Fabric is a unified data platform that continues to revolutionize businesses globally, with over 19,000 organizations and 74% of Fortune 500 companies utilizing Fabric. At FabCon, customers from around the world will share their experiences of pushing the boundaries of data at scale and unlocking new possibilities for business innovation.

The London Stock Exchange (LSEG), for instance, is leveraging Fabric to unify their data estates and efficiently process their data:

“Microsoft Fabric has been instrumental in LSEG’s data platform modernization journey. With Fabric Spark as the core engine powering our customer-facing enterprise data platform, LSEG manages large volumes of time-critical financial markets data that require complex data quality and transformation rules, executed at scale and with consistent service levels. Combining this with the broader Fabric ecosystem has opened up new and exciting customer experiences and AI-powered opportunities.”

—Phil Withey, Head of Architecture, LSEG Microsoft Partners

Similarly, International Workplace Group (IWG) is revolutionizing its approach to data integration:

“Microsoft Fabric was a game-changer because of its ability to create shortcuts without physically moving data from one place to another. Before, if I had to incorporate three sources, I had to create pipelines to bring in the data. That pipeline had a cost. The data movement had a cost. With Fabric, it’s two clicks and that’s it.”

—José Viegas, Senior Data Architect, IWG

We continue to listen and learn, delivering the latest innovations across the data estate to enable customer successes like these. See how customers worldwide are using Fabric to transform their teams and industries.

New Capabilities Coming to Microsoft Fabric

Today, we’re enhancing the Fabric experience by introducing key innovations designed to help strengthen security and harness the power of AI to streamline data workstreams like never before:

Introducing OneLake Security—an Industry Breakthrough in Data Protection

Managing granular data security across multiple applications and engines can be complex, often resulting in excessive restrictions or accidental data exposures. That’s why we’re introducing OneLake security—an industry breakthrough in data protection. OneLake is Fabric’s unified data lake, which seamlessly connects your entire multi-cloud and on-premises data estate. All your teams get a single place to discover, explore, and manage their data—even within apps like Microsoft Teams and Excel.

Now with OneLake security, you can define access permissions once, and Fabric will enforce it consistently across all engines. Data owners can create security roles, refine permissions, and control access at the row and column levels to securely share data. For example, you can grant access to only certain folders, tables, or even rows in a lakehouse—restricting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) while keeping other data available. This security propagates automatically, so whether you query the data in SQL or visualize it in a Power BI report, you can only see what has been authorized. Check out the following demo to see OneLake security in action:

We are thrilled to share that OneLake security will be available in preview within a few months. In the meantime, if you are interested in trying OneLake security on your workspaces and providing feedback, please visit this early access sign-up page.

Empowering Agentic AI by Integrating Fabric Data Agents with Azure AI Foundry

Data plays a critical role in agentic AI, enabling AI agents to operate independently, make informed decisions, and take meaningful actions. That’s why we are expanding capabilities and deepening integrations between our data and AI platforms.

Data agents (formerly known as AI skills) in Microsoft Fabric are AI-powered assistants that can learn, adapt, and deliver insights instantly, helping teams make better data-driven decisions. Fabric data agents not only retrieve data from OneLake, but they can reason over and understand the data—what it means, how it’s structured, and when it’s relevant.

Starting today, organizations can use Azure AI Foundry to connect customized, conversational agents, created in Fabric. AI developers can now use Azure AI Agent Service to securely ground AI agent outputs with enterprise knowledge in Fabric data agents, so that responses are accurate, relevant, and contextually aware. By combining Fabric’s sophisticated data analysis over enterprise data with Azure AI Foundry’s cutting-edge GenAI technology, businesses can create custom conversational AI agents leveraging domain expertise.

“Fabric data agents are a powerful and value-adding tool in data environments. Acting as a conversational capability layer, we can use data agents to ‘talk’ to our data, understand it, and derive different insights in support of our daily decision making.”

—Maureen Tan, Head of AI Center of Expertise, NTT DATA

Fabric Empowers Every Business User with AI Capabilities

Fabric empowers business users to quickly uncover key insights in a Power BI report by simply asking Copilot. With AI-enhanced Q&A and intuitive visuals seamlessly embedded in Microsoft 365 apps, everyone can better understand and act on their data with ease. To further empower this mission, we’re announcing that:

• The preview of Direct Lake semantic models in Power BI desktop allows users to build Power BI semantic models for lightning-fast reports that query data directly from OneLake without scheduling refreshes and without data duplication. This feature will also enable users to add in tables from multiple Fabric artifacts in the same Direct Lake semantic model for ultimate reusability of OneLake data.

Fabric Provides a Mission-Critical Foundation

Our final promise is that you can confidently deploy and manage Microsoft Fabric with category-leading performance, instant scalability, shared resilience, and built-in security, governance, and compliance. To further that mission, we’re excited to introduce several enhancements to our mission-critical promise, including:

Mission-Critical Foundation Enhancement with Microsoft Purview:

• Coming soon, the preview of Microsoft Purview for Copilot in Power BI. The integration will enable discovery of data risks such as sensitive data in user prompts and responses, protect sensitive data with Insider Risk Management to identify and investigate risky AI usage, and govern AI usage with audit, eDiscovery, retention policies, and non-compliant usage detection.

• Coming soon, we are expanding Purview Data Loss Prevention policies Fabric coverage beyond lakehouses and semantic models, to now also include Fabric KQL databases and mirrored databases. This will allow security admins to detect sensitive data uploads, such as SSNs, and trigger automated actions in more sources.

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