Embrace the change: advantages of moving to Microsoft Fabric - Brad Schacht

Modern data environments are increasingly complex, fragmented across multiple tools, vendors, and storage systems, making it difficult for organizations to scale analytics or confidently adopt AI. This session explores how Microsoft Fabric solves these challenges by unifying data engineering, data warehousing, real‑time analytics, and business intelligence into one integrated, end‑to‑end platform. With OneLake as the foundation and built‑in governance through Microsoft Purview, Fabric transforms the data estate into a cohesive, trusted environment that accelerates insight generation.

We’ll look at how organizations are simplifying operations, reducing costs, and dramatically boosting performance by migrating to the Fabric Data Warehouse. You’ll learn how AI-powered capabilities—especially Copilot in Fabric—streamline code generation, accelerate data engineering tasks, and empower users across skill levels to ask natural-language questions and instantly generate SQL or insights. Real‑world customer stories highlight impressive results such as 50–90% faster processing, reduced infrastructure spend, and reporting cycles that shrink from hours to minutes.

Finally, the session walks through the integrated migration experience, showing how companies can quickly move from Synapse or SQL-based systems into Fabric with automated code conversion, DACPAC-based schema migration, and simple data loading patterns. Whether your goal is cost reduction, AI readiness, or operational efficiency, you’ll leave with a clear roadmap and the confidence to begin—or accelerate—your organization’s journey to Microsoft Fabric.