{"id":1013000000555,"date":"2026-10-08T08:21:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/?p=1013000000555"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:21:26","slug":"the-future-of-data-ai-and-analytics-lessons-from-microsoft-fabcon-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/blog\/the-future-of-data-ai-and-analytics-lessons-from-microsoft-fabcon-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of data, AI and analytics: Lessons from Microsoft FabCon 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"single-column-content single-column-content--container-regular single-column-content--align-left\">\n    \n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"single-column-content__inner\" data-aos=\"fade-up\">\n            \n                            <div class=\"single-column-content__content standard-body\">\n                    <p>Our team attended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/partners\/microsoft-azure-partner\/\">Microsoft<\/a> FabCon in Barcelona last week, Microsoft&#8217;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&#8217;s unified data platform continues to evolve.<\/p>\n<p>Over four days, we fully immersed ourselves in the partner and community experience, hearing about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New and upcoming Fabric features<\/li>\n<li>Enhancements to existing Fabric features<\/li>\n<li>Ways of working with Fabric across other partners, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/partners\/version-1-and-databricks-partnership\/\">Databricks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/partners\/snowflake\/\">Snowflake<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Among the many announcements, several stood out for their potential to help organisations accelerate data modernisation and maximise the value of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/partners\/microsoft-azure-partner\/microsoft-fabric-services-partner\/\">Microsoft Fabric<\/a>:<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n            \n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"sidebar-grid\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"sidebar-grid__layout sidebar-grid__layout--full\">\n            \n                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__grid sidebar-grid__grid--cols-2\">\n                                                                    <article class=\"sidebar-grid__item\" data-aos=\"fade-up\" data-aos-delay=\"0\">\n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                                    <img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Version1-Cost-Money3-NEG-RGB.svg\" class=\"sidebar-grid__icon-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \/>                                <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"sidebar-grid__title h5\">Fabric F0<\/h3>\n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__content\"><p>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\u2019t need that capability and capacity every day). This will make it easier to get started while maintaining control through spend limits.<\/p><\/div>\n                            \n                                                                                <\/article>\n                                                                    <article class=\"sidebar-grid__item\" data-aos=\"fade-up\" data-aos-delay=\"100\">\n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                                    <img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Version1-System-NEG-RGB.svg\" class=\"sidebar-grid__icon-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \/>                                <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"sidebar-grid__title h5\">Dynamics 365 Business Central mirroring for OneLake<\/h3>\n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__content\"><p>It\u2019s been straightforward for a long time to get Dynamics 365 data out of Customer Engagement (CE) and Finance &amp; Supply Chain Management (F&amp;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.<\/p><\/div>\n                            \n                                                                                <\/article>\n                                                                    <article class=\"sidebar-grid__item\" data-aos=\"fade-up\" data-aos-delay=\"0\">\n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                                    <img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Version1-HonestyIntegrity-NEG-RGB.svg\" class=\"sidebar-grid__icon-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \/>                                <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"sidebar-grid__title h5\">Source Security Role replication<\/h3>\n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__content\"><p>Starting with Snowflake, with more to come &#8211; coming into Public Preview in the next few weeks. Yes, this will take a while, but it\u2019s good to hear it\u2019s on the roadmap.<\/p><\/div>\n                            \n                                                                                <\/article>\n                                                                    <article class=\"sidebar-grid__item\" data-aos=\"fade-up\" data-aos-delay=\"100\">\n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                                    <img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Version1-Phone-App-NEG-RGB.svg\" class=\"sidebar-grid__icon-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \/>                                <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"sidebar-grid__title h5\">Fabric Apps<\/h3>\n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__content\"><p>Not your average dashboard report &#8211; 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 \u2013 genuinely closing the gap between the previous hard line between operational and analytical operations.<\/p><\/div>\n                            \n                                                                                <\/article>\n                                                                    <article class=\"sidebar-grid__item\" data-aos=\"fade-up\" data-aos-delay=\"0\">\n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                                    <img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Version1-Support-Team-NEG-RGB.svg\" class=\"sidebar-grid__icon-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \/>                                <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"sidebar-grid__title h5\">Fabric Ontology<\/h3>\n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__content\"><p><span data-teams=\"true\">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.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n                            \n                                                                                <\/article>\n                                                                    <article class=\"sidebar-grid__item\" data-aos=\"fade-up\" data-aos-delay=\"100\">\n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                                    <img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Version1-Data-Search-NEG-RGB.svg\" class=\"sidebar-grid__icon-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \/>                                <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"sidebar-grid__title h5\">Graph in Fabric is now generally available<\/h3>\n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__content\"><p><span data-teams=\"true\">Graph is the cornerstone of visualising relationships in your data, so this is a game-changer for data preparation \u2013 revealing connections and enabling complex querying across areas including processes and relationship contexts.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n                            \n                                                                                <\/article>\n                                                                    <article class=\"sidebar-grid__item\" data-aos=\"fade-up\" data-aos-delay=\"0\">\n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                                    <img width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Version1-Touch-NEG-RGB.svg\" class=\"sidebar-grid__icon-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" \/>                                <\/div>\n                            \n                                                            <h3 class=\"sidebar-grid__title h5\">Migration assistant for Fabric Data Warehouse live connectivity<\/h3>\n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"sidebar-grid__content\"><p>This will make the move to Fabric easier, at the same time that Fabric levels up \u2013 a big win for organisations.<\/p><\/div>\n                            \n                                                                                <\/article>\n                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"single-column-content single-column-content--container-regular single-column-content--align-left  block-theme-light block-surface-white\">\n    \n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"single-column-content__inner\" data-aos=\"fade-up\">\n            \n                            <div class=\"single-column-content__content standard-body\">\n                    <p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A particular highlight was Microsoft&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Ready to unlock more value from Microsoft Fabric? <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re exploring a Fabric implementation, modernising your data platform or looking to make better use of AI, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/contact-us\/\">contact one of our experts<\/a> who can help you turn your data into actionable 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