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Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Fabric

Composite Score

8.1 /10

CX Score

8.6 /10

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What is Microsoft Fabric?

Microsoft Fabric is a platform that allows users to get, create, share, and visualize data using an array of tools. Give your data teams all the tools they need in a unified experience that helps reduce the cost and effort of data integration, governance, and security.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Fabric won the following awards in the Machine Learning Platforms category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2024

Microsoft Fabric Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

Up 1
Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Product Experience

Negotiation and Contract

Conflict Resolution

100

Strategy & Innovation

Service Experience

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:: 99%
Negotiation and Contract:: 98%
Conflict Resolution:: 97%
Strategy & Innovation:: 100%
Service Experience:: 99%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+99 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Fabric?

0% Negative

0% Neutral

100% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Performance and Scalability

Data Ingestion

Openness and Flexibility

Ensembling

Model Monitoring and Management

Pre-Packaged AI/ML Services

Explainability

Data Exploration and Visualization

Data Pre-Processing

Algorithm Diversity

Algorithm Recommendation

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Microsoft Fabric Reviews

Antonio P.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Transportation
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2025

Best datalake, ecosystem of products, BI in once

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Fabric from other similar products?

Amazing datalake, software ecosystem and copilot AI features for data modeling and BI

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Whole ecosystem integrated, AI capabilities for reporting and data visualization

What do you dislike most about this product?

Cost and fees with tokens

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you are in a large corporate and can afford recurring subscription fees, it is definitely a must-have if dealing with big data, ML and BI

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Ayodamope O.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Banking
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2025

Powerful but could use more advanced features

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Fabric from other similar products?

Seamless Integration with Microsoft Ecosystem Unified Data Platform: It brings together data integration, engineering, warehousing, science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence into one platform, reducing the need for multiple disparate tools. Lakehouse Architecture: Fabric supports a modern lakehouse architecture, combining the benefits of a data warehouse and a data lake, making it highly scalable and suitable for both structured and unstructured data.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Unified Data Platform: It brings together data integration, engineering, warehousing, science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence into one platform, reducing the need for multiple disparate tools.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The main drawback of Microsoft Fabric is its steep learning curve for new users, particularly those who are not familiar with the broader Microsoft ecosystem. Despite its unified platform, navigating its wide range of features can feel daunting at first.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

To get the most out of Microsoft Fabric, start with a pilot project, invest in team training, and familiarize yourself with the Microsoft ecosystem. Ensure compatibility with existing tools, leverage community resources, and monitor costs to determine if it aligns with your organization’s data strategy.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Saves Time

Kishore Kumar S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Fantastic Data fabrication tool

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Fabric from other similar products?

Iis AI methodology of developing output is awesome we just need to remodel as per to our requirement, so simple for end user to use.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Data integration and data modelling

What do you dislike most about this product?

Not able to view all in one page too clustered and confusing patterns

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Definitely I will suggest to buy and try themselves as it is one of the best tool from Microsoft.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Microsoft Fabric Ratings

90 Likeliness to Recommend

Up 1 Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

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+99 Net Emotional Footprint

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Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Performance and Scalability Systems performance (time) and scalability end-to-end: from data load and processing to model creation and deployment.

Data Ingestion Ability to access data from various sources on-prem and in the cloud and of various type: structured, unstructured, and semi-structured, real-time, etc.

Openness and Flexibility Integration with open-source and 3P resources (languages, frameworks, libraries, etc.)

Ensembling 'Ability to combine ML models for best results.

Model Monitoring and Management Ability to monitor model use and performance in production, incl. identifying models for refresh and/or replacement.

Pre-Packaged AI/ML Services Pre-trained models and associated resources, e.g., for forecasting, recommendations, image and video analysis, NLP, voice, etc.

Explainability Ability to explain/ visualize the model.

Data Exploration and Visualization Ability to visually manipulate, interact with, and explore data, and perform basic descriptive statistics and pattern detection.

Data Pre-Processing Ability to wrangle or pre-process data to ready it for model training.

Algorithm Diversity Provides multiple diverse ready-to-use machine learning algorithms out-of-the-box.

Algorithm Recommendation Ability to recommend a best ML algorithm to use based on dataset characteristics.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Microsoft Fabric Reviews

Antonio P.

Best datalake, ecosystem of products, BI in once

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ayodamope O.

Powerful but could use more advanced features

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kishore Kumar S.

Fantastic Data fabrication tool

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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