Microsoft is combining its existing data warehousing, business intelligence, and data analytics products into a single offering, dubbed Microsoft Fabric, it said Tuesday.
Analysts said this could help enterprises combine workloads while reducing IT integration overhead, complexity and costs.
The launch of a unified data analytics platform in the form of Microsoft Fabric can be seen as “riposte” to the massive sprawl of products in an enterprise’s modern data stack, according to Sanjeev Mohan, principal analyst at SanjMo.
“Microsoft realizes …