Microsoft-Fabric

I had the great pleasure to get to spend time today, talking with Josh Caplan about OneLake. Josh Caplan serves as a Principal Group Product Manager at Microsoft, where he’s now leading product management for Microsoft OneLake. He has a strong background in managing products like Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Servers, and Azure Analysis Services. Before his current role, Josh contributed to enhancing developer tools for Power BI and worked with Bing to harness its vast data resources.

2023-08-10

I’ve mentioned in a previous post how important I think Microsoft Fabric is going to be. So, in addition to our existing SQL Down Under, and Cosmos Down Under podcasts, we have a brand new podcast called Fabric Down Under. In the preview for Microsoft Fabric, one of the key participants from the product group has been Pawel Potasinski. I’ve known Pawel for many years and he’s been the driving force behind many important things.

2023-05-24

Microsoft has had a strong lead in BI and analytics for a long time now. The introduction of the tabular data models in 2012 was a watershed moment. Today, they have announced a private preview of Microsoft Fabric. It’s a bigger deal than the tabular model was, and will set the direction of BI tooling for a long time to come. The opposition was already struggling to keep up, and in fact, hadn’t managed to do so.

2023-05-24