How to keep your Microsoft Fabric capacity under control Introduction Microsoft Fabric promises a unified analytics platform, one capacity, one bill, everything in one place. But that simplicity comes with a catch: every workload on your capacity competes for the same pool of compute units (CUs). When those CUs run out Microsoft Fabric first takes […]
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Materialized Lake Views in Microsoft Fabric: your medallion pipeline in a few lines of SQL
Data engineering on a lakehouse used to mean a lot of moving parts. A notebook for each transformation layer. A Data Factory pipeline to run them in the right order. Custom validation logic across scripts. Schedules to maintain and a Monitor Hub to watch when things break. Five different surfaces and five different things to […]
When your data starts talking: a practical look at Microsoft Fabric Data Agents
Modern data platforms are becoming more powerful, but at the same time also more complex. Many organizations invest heavily in modern data architectures, yet business users often still depend on data teams for simple questions. Writing queries, building reports, or waiting for changes often slows down decision-making. Microsoft Fabric Data Agent is designed to help […]
Automating business actions with Power BI Translytical Task Flows
The challenge: insights without action If you’ve ever looked at a dashboard and thought… “I want to update a status from this report” “I wish I could approve this request right here” “I want to annotate something I am seeing” …then you’ve run into a common Power BI reality: reportsaretypicallyread-only, which forces users to switch […]
Developing and deploying my ML models in MS Fabric – a user review
MS Fabric is on the market for some time now and where many of you have used it probably as an extension on Power BI, Fabric offers also some other interesting features. In this blog we investigate how well MS Fabric can be used to develop and host Machine Learning (ML) models. As a test, […]
Microsoft Fabric: How useful is it for me?
Microsoft Fabric provides an all-in-one data workflow environment that addresses a variety of demands. Regardless of whether you are working on streaming analytics, operating a data warehouse or making informed data visualizations, Fabric commits to a single platform for all these activities. This eliminates the difficulty of working with multiple tools. Figure 1: What is […]
Power BI Quarterly Blog Q2 2024
With Lytix we try to stay updated on the latest developments in Power BI and help our audience to do the same. That’s why we make a habit of posting the most interesting changes in the Power BI landscape every quarter. Below you can find the most interesting topics for the latest quarter. General availability […]
Road to managed self-service BI
Many companies are widely using Power BI and are creating meaningful reports to gain insights into their data. This can be a great responsibility for the BI team. A lot of work goes into creating semantic models, writing correct DAX measures and having to create a report that fulfils the needs of the report consumers. […]
Cross-tenant Data Sharing with Power BI: A Comprehensive Guide
In today’s world of digital data, information is everywhere, and sharing it has become more crucial than ever. However, when it comes to sharing datasets between users from different tenants, things can get a bit complex. Each group, or “tenant,” within an organisation operates in its own designated space with unique datasets. When users from […]
What is Direct Lake mode in Fabric?
You are tired of waiting for your dataset to refresh in Power BI service? Say goodbye to these waiting times, Microsoft Fabric has a Direct Lake connection from Power BI to your OneLake! One of the great innovations in Microsoft Fabric is Direct Lake. Keep on reading if you want to know more about this […]