Memphis Data Professionals

Microsoft Fabric in a Day - This is an interactive event, so bring your computer!
NOTE: there are pre-requisites that the attendee must either have an active Fabric license or active Fabric trial. More details on activating a Fabric trial Getting Started | Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end analytics platform that brings together all the data and analytics tools that organizations need to go from the data lake to the business user. Fabric integrates technologies like Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI into a single unified product, empowering data and business professionals alike to unlock the potential of their data and lay the foundation for the era of AI.
You are invited to a free one-day workshop covering the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric. Fabric in a Day is designed for Power BI Data Analysts with experience on Power BI, but new to Microsoft Fabric. The goal of this informational session is to help you understand how to consolidate your data into a single source of truth where you can analyze your data and generate meaningful insights. Data Analysts will go through the end-to-end analytics solution from ingesting data to building reports with automatic refresh. Whether you are evaluating Fabric’s ability to meet organizational requirements around data unification, visualization, and analysis or wanting to learn how it can help optimize your work to create high value impact, this is the workshop for you.
At the end of the day, attendees will better understand how to:

• Identify when their organizations can benefit from using Microsoft Fabric for their specific business scenarios
• Leverage the full power of Microsoft Fabric to streamline and enhance productivity with integrated analytics platform
• Unify and transform data from across various data sources leveraging various data engineering and self-service query options
• Build rich and powerful reports to discover meaningful insights and make impactful business decisions with Power BI
• Dan asked for us to complete the following before tomorrow:

1. Equipment - please bring their own laptop with a compatible web browser to access Microsoft Fabric Supported browsers for Power BI and Fabric. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/fundamentals/power-bi-browsers
2. Fabric Trial - please share and have attendees review how to enable a Fabric Trial Capacity -->> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-fabric/getting-started
3. Pre-work - Pease review the workshop outline Get started with Microsoft Fabric https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/get-started-fabric/ and review the first module "Introduction to end-to-end analytics using Microsoft Fabric