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Microsoft Fabric Modernization Pathways in Action: Strategic Insights for Data Leaders

Modernize Your Analytics Platform with Microsoft Fabric

Data leaders today face rising pressure to extract value from fragmented systems while balancing cost, performance, and security. In this on-demand session from PASS on Tour NYC 2025, you’ll discover proven strategies to modernize your analytics platform with Microsoft Fabric—complete with upgrade pathways, architectural best practices, and real-world lessons that help organizations unlock business growth.

Key Takeaways:

  • Proven upgrade strategies: Transition smoothly from legacy data warehouses, Azure Data Factory, and existing Azure analytics investments to Microsoft Fabric.
  • Real-world implementation patterns: Apply medallion architecture and OneLake optimization for scalable, enterprise-grade data management.
  • Cost optimization: Reduce integration complexity while boosting agility, adoption, and long-term ROI.
  • Security & governance: Eliminate silos and strengthen compliance with enterprise-ready frameworks powered by Microsoft Purview.
  • Capacity planning guidance: Explore use cases spanning small teams to enterprise deployments with thousands of users.

Expert Insights Preview:

“Every CDO tells us they don’t want to be the Chief Integration Officer. Microsoft Fabric addresses this by bringing all analytics services together in a single platform that can go from data lake to business user.”

— Tobin Thankachen, Global Practice Leader, Analytics, Datavail

About the Presenter:

Tobin Thankachen, Global Practice Leader of Analytics at Datavail, is a seasoned data analytics and AI strategist. He brings extensive experience in cloud, big data, and large-scale lakehouse and warehouse environments. Tobin has led cross-functional initiatives using advanced modeling and analysis techniques to improve performance, resolve data quality issues, and optimize enterprise analytics systems.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Microsoft Fabric, and how does it differ from traditional analytics platforms?
Microsoft Fabric is a unified analytics platform that combines data integration, engineering, warehousing, science, real-time analytics, and BI into a single SaaS experience. Unlike traditional fragmented solutions that require multiple vendors and heavy integration, Fabric centralizes all workloads in OneLake—simplifying operations and reducing costs.

How can organizations reduce costs when migrating to Microsoft Fabric?
Fabric uses a consumption-based model with only two cost variables: compute capacity and storage. This eliminates multiple vendor licensing fees, reduces integration expenses, and optimizes spend with shared compute pools.

What are the main security and governance benefits of implementing Microsoft Fabric?
Fabric integrates with Microsoft Purview to deliver automated discovery, classification, and lineage tracking across all workloads. Security is enforced at the artifact level, ensuring data protection and compliance from source through consumption.

Which existing analytics investments can be preserved when upgrading to Microsoft Fabric?
Existing Azure investments can be retained and extended. Azure Databricks lakehouses integrate with Fabric via ADLS G2 shortcuts; Power BI is natively embedded; Azure Data Factory workloads migrate to Fabric pipelines; and legacy Microsoft stack tools (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS) follow clear transition paths to maintain business logic and user continuity.