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Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Fabric

Composite Score

8.2 /10

CX Score

8.7 /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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6 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2024

Microsoft Fabric Ratings

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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.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

91 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

3
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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?

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100% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Performance and Scalability

Data Ingestion

Openness and Flexibility

Ensembling

Model Monitoring and Management

Data Exploration and Visualization

Explainability

Data Pre-Processing

Data Labeling

Pre-Packaged AI/ML Services

Algorithm Diversity

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Microsoft Fabric Reviews

FAITH F.

Role: Operations
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2025

The Future of Data

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Fabric from other similar products?

Microsoft Fabric's main differentiator is its all-in-one, "SaaS-like" approach. It unifies a wide range of data-related workloads, from data engineering to data science and business intelligence under a single, integrated platform with a unified data lake.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Microsoft Fabric is its unified, all-in-one approach. It's a game-changer to have everything from data ingestion to BI dashboards in a single platform. It completely removes the friction of having to stitch together multiple services, making the whole workflow so much more efficient and enjoyable.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The tools for things like DevOps and CI/CD are not as robust as they should be, and sometimes it feels like a work in progress, which can be frustrating when you're managing a complex project.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Based on my experience, if you're already in the Microsoft ecosystem and want to simplify your data stack, I'd highly recommend Microsoft Fabric. The way it unifies everything from data engineering to BI is a game-changer. Just be prepared for some growing pains, as it's still a new product and can feel a bit immature, especially when it comes to DevOps. Start with a small project to get a feel for it, and you'll quickly see the potential.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

Jessica l.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2025

Good integration, still maturing

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Fabric from other similar products?

It offers an integrated end-to-end platform combining data engineering, storage, and analytics in one environment.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The unified experience across tools makes it much easier to build, manage, and consume data solutions.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The limited amount of learning resources and community content available compared to other Microsoft products.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Start with a pilot project, explore the key features, and take advantage of Microsoft’s official documentation and training.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Inspires Innovation

SOMTO E.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2025

All-in-One Analytics Powerhouse

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Fabric from other similar products?

Unified "OneLake" Architecture Single data lake for everything: Ingest, store, and analyze all data types (structured, semi-structured, unstructured) without silos. Native Integration with Power BI & Microsoft Stack

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

All-in-One Analytics Powerhouse

What do you dislike most about this product?

Teams/SharePoint integration is a double-edged sword: Great for Microsoft shops but alienates non-Office users.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

i will strongly recommend but i must warn that you must learn how to manage cost because it's not for learners

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Microsoft Fabric Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

91 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

3 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+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.

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

Explainability Ability to explain/ visualize the model.

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

Data Labeling Ability to annotate/ label data to create a training data set.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

FAITH F.

The Future of Data

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Jessica l.

Good integration, still maturing

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

SOMTO E.

All-in-One Analytics Powerhouse

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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