During this session, we dive into the insights we gained during the first European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Stockholm in the fall of 2024: Fabcon.

Fabric has now become an increasingly mature full data platform, almost impossible to avoid, especially with its wide availability through Office licenses. In this session, we mainly look at the developer experience in Fabric and a topic that Microsoft strongly emphasizes as a USP: Real-Time Intelligence.

Next, we ask the question: is there an alternative to Fabric? Our answer to that: there certainly is, in the form of open source.

We will take you through the developments around open source data platforms; relatively new territory for Info Support, but we see tools like Dagster, DuckDB, and dbt becoming increasingly popular since major hyperscalers like Microsoft are pushing more towards SaaS solutions (such as Fabric) - with the risk of vendor lock-in as a result.

Why this is the case, and what challenges there are in using open source software for a data platform, you will also hear during this session.