The Future of Data & AI: our Top 5 Microsoft Fabric Announcements FabCon 2025
At the recent FabCon 2025 event, Microsoft unveiled a new wave of innovations designed to make data management and AI-powered decision-making more seamless and accessible than ever before. These updates show that Microsoft Fabric is evolving at an incredible pace, bringing groundbreaking features that enhance AI, security, data integration, and analytics.
As a proud member of the Microsoft Partner Network, we at Ei Square are thrilled to see these advancements. They align perfectly with our mission to help businesses like yours unlock the power of your data and drive tangible growth. Here are our top five favourite Microsoft Fabric announcements from the event and why they matter for your business.
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1. Copilot and AI Capabilities Now Accessible to All
Microsoft has officially expanded access to Copilot and other AI capabilities across all paid Microsoft Fabric SKUs. This means that powerful features previously limited to high-tier licensing are now available to customers on F2 SKUs and above.
Why It Matters
This update is a true game-changer for data analytics and business intelligence. It effectively democratises access to AI, removing significant financial and technical barriers for organisations of all sizes. By bringing sophisticated automation and intelligence to a wider user base, Microsoft enables your entire team - not just data scientists - to leverage the power of AI. This makes data-driven decision-making more efficient, scalable, and intuitive across every department, from finance to operations. It’s about empowering every user to transform raw data into clear, actionable insights.
How It Can Help Your Business
With Copilot in Microsoft Fabric now widely available, your teams can streamline data workflows, uncover valuable insights faster, and boost productivity. This change helps your business move from simple reporting to smarter, AI-powered strategies.
As specialists in data, Ei Square helps you go beyond just activating Copilot. We ensure your data estate is clean, well-structured, and fully optimised to maximise Copilot's potential, so you can:
Accelerate Data Analysis: Use natural language to automatically generate queries, reports, and code, saving valuable time.
Boost Productivity: Automate routine tasks and streamline data workflows, freeing up your team to focus on strategic initiatives.
Drive Smarter Strategies: Uncover hidden patterns and insights from your data faster, enabling you to make more informed and proactive business decisions.
2. Enhanced Data Governance with OneLake Security
OneLake Security is a new, unified security model that ensures consistent data access control across all Microsoft Fabric engines. This groundbreaking feature allows data owners to define security roles and set precise permissions just once, automatically enforcing row- and column-level access restrictions.
Why It Matters for Your Business
This innovation fundamentally simplifies data governance. It guarantees that your permissions are applied consistently across all data query methods, whether you're using SQL, Spark, or Power BI reports. This eliminates inconsistencies and significantly strengthens your data security posture. For organisations handling sensitive information, this uniform approach is essential for maintaining integrity and trust. And when it comes to presenting that data, trust is just as vital. The best visualisations tell a story with integrity, building confidence through accuracy and responsible communication. To explore the foundational principles of ethical data storytelling, check out our blog: Staying ethical in data visualisation: Why, What and How?.
How It Can Help Your Business
With OneLake Security, you can protect sensitive information like Personally Identifiable Information (PII) without blocking access to non-sensitive data. By setting access controls once and applying them universally across your data estate, your business can:
Reduce the risk of data leaks and unauthorized access.
Improve data compliance with regulatory standards like GDPR.
Enhance operational efficiency by streamlining security management.
This single, logical data lake security model gives you confidence that your data is always protected, no matter how it’s accessed.
3. Securely Connecting Firewalled Azure SQL Databases
Microsoft has introduced Fabric Mirroring for Azure SQL Databases protected by a firewall. This powerful new feature enables you to securely replicate your firewalled Azure SQL data into Microsoft Fabric using either the VNet data gateway or the on-premises data gateway. This ensures secure connectivity through private endpoints or private networks, keeping your data protected without exposure to public networks.
Why It Matters for Your Business
Many organisations rely on firewalls and private networks to safeguard their databases, which can create significant challenges for data integration. This new mirroring capability solves that headache. It allows you to securely integrate your Azure SQL data into Fabric, enhancing both security and accessibility by replicating data without compromising your private network.
How Ei Square Can Help You
As experts in Azure SQL and the Microsoft data platform, we can help you leverage Fabric Mirroring to seamlessly integrate your protected data. We ensure your architecture is optimised for security and performance, giving your teams a complete and unified view of your data while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance.
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4. Seamless Migrations from Azure Synapse Analytics
Microsoft has launched a native migration experience in Fabric, designed to help Azure Synapse Analytics customers seamlessly transition to Microsoft Fabric.
This preview feature simplifies the migration process by automatically converting schemas, transferring metadata and data, and even offering AI-powered assistance. With integrated assessment tools and guided support, businesses can migrate with minimal disruption.
Why It Matters
Migrating a data warehouse is a huge undertaking. This built-in migration tool makes the process effortless, reducing the manual effort, cost, and risk traditionally associated with such a transition.
How It Can Help Your Business
If you're an Azure Synapse Analytics user, this is a clear path to modernize your data platform. You can transition to Fabric Data Warehouse with confidence, quickly unlocking the value of its advanced analytics and AI capabilities.
5. Smarter AI Agents with Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft is enhancing agentic AI by integrating Fabric data agents with Azure AI Foundry. This update allows you to build AI agents that operate independently, reason over data, and generate informed responses—all while leveraging Fabric’s enterprise data and Azure AI’s advanced capabilities.
Why It Matters
AI agents are only as good as the data they can access. This integration ensures that your AI models are contextually aware, accurate, and relevant by allowing them to retrieve, understand, and analyze data from OneLake.
How It Can Help Your Business
You can now build custom conversational AI agents that leverage your own enterprise data, not just generic AI models. By grounding AI responses in Fabric’s structured data, you can improve decision-making, automate workflows, and enhance customer and employee experiences with intelligent, data-driven interactions.
Thinking about building your own AI agent? To learn how to get started in the education sector, check out our blog: Build AI Agent for EdTech: Your Step-by-Step Guide.
A Future Built on Unified, Intelligent Data
The announcements from FabCon 2025 clearly demonstrate that Microsoft Fabric is not just a product; it’s a rapidly evolving ecosystem designed to be the central nervous system for your business data. The breathtaking pace of innovation—from Copilot’s democratisation to enhanced security and seamless migration tools—reaffirms Fabric’s position as the foundational platform for any organisation looking to truly harness the power of data and AI. As a trusted Microsoft Partner, we specialise in navigating these complex landscapes and turning new technologies into tangible business value.
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