OneLake: Simplifying Your Data Lake with Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft OneLake or Azure OneLake

Azure will first investigate the barriers that keep people from finding, obtaining, and using data to innovate and improve decision-making. Azure will also demonstrate the potential of Microsoft Fabric’s one, SaaS, multi-cloud data lake, OneLake, which is intended to link to any data inside the company and provide access to it for all users in a well-organised, user-friendly hub. Your data teams can manage your data, promote high-quality data to promote utilisation, and control access using the OneLake data hub. The data elements that users have access to are simple to locate, examine, and use, whether they are found within data tools like Fabric or even inside programs like Teams and Excel.

OneLake

What is Microsoft OneLake?

The basis upon which all Fabric services are constructed is the data lake. OneLake is another name for Microsoft Fabric Lake. It is a feature of the Fabric service that gives all organisational data operating in the experiences a single, accessible area to be stored.

On ADLS Gen2, OneLake is constructed. It offers a tenant-wide data storage and a unified SaaS experience for both professional and amateur developers. OneLake SaaS streamlines the user experience by removing the requirement for users to comprehend any infrastructure concepts, like regions, resource groups, Azure Resource Manager, RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), or redundancy. Furthermore, the user does not even need to have an Azure account to utilize it.

Individual developers provide and setup their own segregated storage accounts, creating the ubiquitous and disorderly data silos that exist today. OneLake solves this problem. Rather, OneLake offers all developers a single, unified storage solution where policy and security settings are enforced consistently and centrally, and data sharing and discovery are simple.

In addition to making your data available to people who want it, you must provide them with strong analytics tools that enable them to grow in tandem with the demands of the company. Here’s where Microsoft Fabric really excels. Data teams may use Fabric to use a single product with a unified architecture and experience that offers all the features needed for analysts to pull insights out of data and deliver them to the business customer.

With the necessary tools, data scientists, data engineers, data analysts, business users, and data stewards may all feel perfectly at home in the analytics process. Because the experience is provided as a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, customers may sign up in a matter of seconds and get substantial commercial value in a matter of minutes. Everything is immediately integrated and optimised.

Getting insights into the hands of everyone in your business is the next stage, especially with your data centralised and your data teams equipped to find insights more quickly than before. She’ll demonstrate how you can integrate reports and insights from Power BI with third-party programs like Salesforce and the SAP as well as your own products like Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform.

Azure Fabric

Data migration, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence are all covered by Microsoft Fabric, an all-in-one analytics solution for businesses. The company provides data lake, engineering, and integration services in one location. You don’t have to combine various services from various providers while using Fabric. Alternatively, you may take advantage of a fully integrated, comprehensive, user-friendly solution that streamlines your analytics requirements.

Microsoft Fabric is an implementation of data mesh architecture that helps businesses and people to transform massive and complicated data stores into useful workloads and analytics.

It takes more than just putting technological features into place to promote adoption and foster a data culture. Technology may help an organization have the most effect, but creating a positive data culture requires taking a variety of factors into account, including people, procedures, and technology.

The appropriate instruments have always ignited change, from the development of steam power to the introduction of smartphones, which have placed the world’s information at people’s fingertips. And now they are beginning to see the possibilities of the next major change: the AI age. They are seeing this influence, along with other leaders, on people, whole teams, and every industry. It is one of the most exciting transformations of the generation. Everything from voice analytics and content creation to corporate chat for improved knowledge mining and data analysis for more insights and data accessibility.

Consider PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a longtime developer in technology and a leader in the professional services industry. PwC is using generative AI to gather, process, and evaluate data more quickly in order to better serve its staff and provide clients better audit experiences.

Use Fabric to connect your data

PwC is not by itself. Businesses are using AI more and more to change their data cultures in order to get better business results. Building this culture traditionally calls for the following essential components:

• Logically arranging your data into a mesh to facilitate users’ ability to find, use, and improve the best accessible data.
• Building a smooth analytics engine that can satisfy the company’s need for real-time insight discovery.
• Incorporating such insights into the daily apps that your employees use to enable data-driven decision-making.

While these stages remain essential, you can now use generative AI to speed up the process of creating a data-rich culture by increasing your data teams’ productivity and increasing everyone’s access to analytics tools. Microsoft can assist you at every stage of this process, as she explains in her webinar, Infusing AI into your Data Culture: A Guide for Data Leaders.