{"id":25822,"date":"2025-07-03T08:32:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/?p=25822"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:09:53","slug":"beyond-power-bi-why-fabric-is-the-next-step-for-your-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/en\/mas-alla-de-power-bi-por-que-fabric-es-el-siguiente-paso-para-tu-empresa\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Power BI: Why Fabric is the next step for your business \ud83d\ude80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Introduction: What is Microsoft Fabric?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Microsoft Fabric<\/strong> is Microsoft's new bid to offer a<strong> unified data analysis platform <\/strong>that goes beyond what Power BI traditionally offers. While <strong>Power BI<\/strong> has been a benchmark in data visualisation and analysis for business users and analysts, <strong>Microsoft Fabric<\/strong> expands this spectrum to become a true meeting point for all data professionals: data engineers, data scientists, analysts and business users.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fabric<\/strong> is not just an evolution of <strong>Power BI<\/strong>is a <strong>end-to-end platform <\/strong>that enables everything from data ingestion to data visualisation, all within a simplified, collaborative working environment. It provides integrated data warehousing, transformation, modelling, analysis and visualisation tools, all on a fully managed SaaS architecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"993\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/microsoft_fabric_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/microsoft_fabric_3.jpg 993w, https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/microsoft_fabric_3-980x436.jpg 980w, https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/microsoft_fabric_3-480x214.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 993px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>OneLake: The single data lake for your organisation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/microsoft-fabric.png\" alt=\"Microsoft Fabric OneLake\" class=\"wp-image-23927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/microsoft-fabric.png 950w, https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/microsoft-fabric-480x180.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 950px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One of the pillars of Microsoft Fabric is<\/strong> <strong>OneLake<\/strong>a unified storage service for the entire organisation. Just as OneDrive offers personal cloud storage for each individual, <strong>OneLake acts as the \"OneDrive of data\" for the entire enterprise.<\/strong>This allows different profiles to work on the same data without the need to replicate or move it between systems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>OneLake<\/strong> radically simplifies working with data by providing a frictionless layer of virtualisation, governance and sharing, integrating naturally with the various analytics engines of <strong>Fabric<\/strong>. It also allows companies to take advantage of the best of cloud infrastructure (as if they were using Azure directly), but without the need to manage complex services or set up architectures from scratch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25826\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Data mining engines: One platform, multiple approaches<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the great advantages of <strong>Microsoft Fabric<\/strong> is that it provides <strong>multiple data analysis engines<\/strong> within a single platform, adapting to the needs of each team or project:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lakehouse<\/strong>DataLabs: combines the best of data lakes and data warehouses. It is ideal for big data projects where flexibility and scalability are required.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Datawarehouse<\/strong>SQL: a dedicated engine with optimised capabilities for relational warehousing and SQL-like analytical queries.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>KQL (Kusto Query Language)<\/strong>Perfect for analysis of semi-structured and event data, such as activity logs or telemetry data.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Analysis Services<\/strong>In-memory engine for highly optimised semantic models, the same engine that powers Power BI datasets.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These motors are not isolated, but are integrated on top of <strong>OneLake,<\/strong> This allows data to be available to all of them natively and without duplication.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25825\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/microsoft_fabric_todoenuno.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/microsoft_fabric_todoenuno.png 596w, https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/microsoft_fabric_todoenuno-480x303.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 596px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What about costs? Comparison with Power BI<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the key elements in considering the adoption of Fabric is to understand how the pricing model is structured. While <strong>Power BI Premium<\/strong> and <strong>Power BI Embedded<\/strong> charge for specific dedicated capacities for visualisation, <strong>Microsoft Fabric offers broader capabilities, including data transformation, warehousing, and data modelling.<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The capacities of <strong>Microsoft Fabric <\/strong>are hired as <em><strong>Fabric capabilities<\/strong><\/em>measured in units called F SKUs (F2, F4, F8, F16, etc.), which allow resources to be distributed among all the platform's services, not just for visualisation as was the case with Power BI Premium.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A simplified comparison table is shown below:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Fabric-Tabla-costes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Fabric-Tabla-costes.jpg 950w, https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Fabric-Tabla-costes-480x208.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 950px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>: although the costs of <strong>Microsoft Fabric<\/strong> may appear similar to those of Power BI Premium, <strong>performance is significantly higher<\/strong>The new software, allowing companies to consolidate multiple tools and workflows on a single platform.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25827\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Examples of Microsoft Fabric adoption<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below, we present<strong> case studies of Microsoft Fabric adoption projects<\/strong>The focus was on companies that were already Power BI users:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. Orchestration of Dataflows through Pipelines<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A company in the retail sector implemented <strong>Fabric pipelines<\/strong> to automate the sequential execution of multiple dataflows (data extraction and transformation), including validation steps and e-mail communication in case of errors or process termination. Thanks to <strong>Fabric<\/strong>The need for external solutions such as Azure Data Factory or Power Automate was eliminated, centralising everything in a single interface.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Using Dataflows Gen2 to feed a Datawarehouse<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another data-intensive organisation used <strong>Second generation dataflows<\/strong> to load and transform their data directly into a <strong>Fabric Datawarehouse<\/strong>. The big advantage was that the data was available to multiple tools (Power BI, notebooks, SQL) without replication, and all with traceability and governance centralised in Fabric.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. Real-time data capture from IoT sensors<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A company in the industrial sector has implemented a solution for <strong>real-time data capture from IoT sensors<\/strong> using <strong>Microsoft Fabric<\/strong>. The sensors, connected through the Azure IoT Hub, continuously sent data that was ingested by <strong>Eventstream<\/strong> in Fabric. This data was stored in a <strong>KQL Database<\/strong> for real-time analysis and visualisation via interactive dashboards. In addition, automatic alerts were configured with <strong>Data Activator<\/strong> to notify the operations team of any anomalies detected in the sensor data. This solution enabled proactive monitoring and rapid response to critical events, significantly improving operational efficiency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25824\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The adoption of <strong>Microsoft Fabric<\/strong> represents a paradigm shift for those companies that already rely on <strong>Power BI.<\/strong> By expanding analytical, governance and collaboration capabilities, <strong>Fabric<\/strong> offers a unified solution that can cover the entire data lifecycle, from ingest to visualisation. <strong>If you are using Power BI but are encountering limitations <\/strong>to orchestrate processes, transform data on a large scale or integrate different data profiles on a single platform, <strong>it's time to make the leap to Microsoft Fabric.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>If you want to successfully migrate to Fabric: <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-4.png 1024w, https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-4-980x217.png 980w, https:\/\/next-step.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-4-480x106.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducci\u00f3n: \u00bfQu\u00e9 es Microsoft Fabric?&nbsp; Microsoft Fabric es la nueva apuesta de Microsoft por ofrecer una plataforma unificada de an\u00e1lisis de datos que va m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de lo que Power BI ofrece tradicionalmente. Mientras Power BI ha sido un referente en la visualizaci\u00f3n y an\u00e1lisis de datos por parte de los usuarios de negocio y [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-fabric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25822"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25895,"href":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25822\/revisions\/25895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/next-step.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}