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Microsoft Fabric End-to-End: From Raw Data to Business Decisions with Amit Chandak [MVP]
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- Aug 25, 2026
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Summary
Microsoft Fabric brings data engineering, analytics, business intelligence, governance and increasingly AI together in one platform. But what does an end-to-end Fabric architecture actually look like when you move beyond individual features and start connecting everything?In this episode of the M365 FM Podcast, Mirko Peters is joined by Amit Chandak [Microsoft Data Platform MVP] for a practical journey through Microsoft Fabric — starting with raw organizational data and ending with trusted information that business users can use to make decisions. WHY MICROSOFT FABRIC? Before Fabric, organizations could already build sophisticated analytics architectures using Azure, Power BI and other platforms. The problem wasn't a lack of technology. In many cases, it was the opposite: organizations had too many choices, separate storage technologies, different compute models and multiple copies of essentially the same data.Amit explains how Microsoft Fabric attempts to simplify this architecture by bringing workloads together around shared foundations such as OneLake, common Fabric capacity and the Delta format. Lakehouses, warehouses, Power BI and other Fabric experiences can therefore operate as parts of a broader platform instead of completely isolated services. ONELAKE AS THE FOUNDATION OneLake is one of the central concepts behind Fabric. Amit compares it conceptually to OneDrive: instead of every analytics workload creating completely independent storage environments, OneLake provides a virtualized storage foundation across the Fabric tenant.Organizations can still separate data through workspaces, Lakehouses, Warehouses and domains, but those resources exist within a common Fabric storage architecture. This becomes particularly important when organizations want to reduce unn…