The Future of Data, AI and Analytics: Key Takeaways from Microsoft FabCon 2026

Our team attended Microsoft FabCon in Barcelona last week, Microsoft’s flagship event dedicated to their Fabric product. With a packed agenda of product announcements, roadmap updates and community-led sessions, the event offered valuable insight into how Microsoft’s unified data platform continues to evolve.

Over four days, we fully immersed ourselves in the partner and community experience, hearing about:

New and upcoming Fabric features
Enhancements to existing Fabric features
Ways of working with Fabric across other partners, including Databricks and Snowflake

Among the many announcements, several stood out for their potential to help organisations accelerate data modernisation and maximise the value of Microsoft Fabric:

Fabric F0 on-demand pricing was one of the most significant announcements. Organisations will be able to consume Fabric through a flexible pay-as-you-go model, removing the need to commit to larger dedicated capacities (no need to sign up to an F64 anymore if you don’t need that capability and capacity every day). This will make it easier to get started while maintaining control through spend limits.

It’s been straightforward for a long time to get Dynamics 365 data out of Customer Engagement (CE) and Finance & Supply Chain Management (F&SCM) and into an Azure/Fabric Data Lake, but now Business Central data can be mirrored into OneLake. This is an exciting one as Dynamics 365 Business Central mirroring for OneLake addresses a long-standing challenge for many organisations, providing a simpler and more consistent route to bringing Business Central data into Fabric for analytics and reporting.

Starting with Snowflake, with more to come – coming into Public Preview in the next few weeks. Yes, this will take a while, but it’s good to hear it’s on the roadmap.

Not your average dashboard report – and with added writeback too. This is a real AI-first approach to building web apps that go beyond traditional reports and cover a huge breadth of functionality – genuinely closing the gap between the previous hard line between operational and analytical operations.

Fabric Ontology is part of Fabric IQ, and delivers a conceptual business model layer, actualised. Making your business model machine-readable by bringing together entities and relationships this enables AI agents, applications, analytics and people to use the same definitions and context.

Graph is the cornerstone of visualising relationships in your data, so this is a game-changer for data preparation – revealing connections and enabling complex querying across areas including processes and relationship contexts.

This will make the move to Fabric easier, at the same time that Fabric levels up – a big win for organisations.

Beyond the product announcements, FabCon once again highlighted the strength of the Microsoft Fabric community. The quality of the partner, customer and community-led sessions demonstrated how quickly organisations are innovating on the platform and sharing best practice across the ecosystem.

A particular highlight was Microsoft’s #WomenInData session, which showcased the diverse experiences and career journeys of women across the data industry and reinforced the importance of building an inclusive and thriving data community.

We’re excited to see how these latest developments continue to shape the Microsoft Fabric landscape and, most importantly, how they can help our customers accelerate their data and AI ambitions.

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