The Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon) 2025 wrapped up earlier this month, but the momentum continues. With over 6,200 attendees—double the previous year—this year’s event brought together customers, community members, and solution and software partners for an exciting week of innovation.
To dive deeper into announcements and product news, check out the Microsoft Fabric blog.
We were thrilled to welcome almost 400 partners to our Partner Pre-Day. If you couldn’t attend, here is a look at the key opportunity ahead—and how Microsoft can help you grow with Fabric.
Generative AI adoption is accelerating. According to IDC’s 2024 AI opportunity study: Top five AI trends to watch, more organizations plan to build industry-specific AI solutions in the next two years. This translates to increased investment—and big opportunities for partners. Another IDC study on partner profitability with Microsoft AI shows that for every $1 of Microsoft revenue, service-led partners earn $8.45 and software-led partners generate $10.93. Partners using Microsoft AI are seeing faster growth and stronger profitability.
Simplifying AI innovation
Microsoft provides an integrated platform and tooling across AI, applications, data, and developer suites to help partners and customers accelerate their business outcomes.
But AI runs on data—and data quality remains a challenge. A recent MIT Technology Review Insights Report on Customizing Generative AI identified data integrity as one of the biggest barriers to AI development. Microsoft addresses this with capabilities across Fabric, Microsoft Azure Databricks, raw storage, databases, and app services.
Fabric is a unified data analytics platform designed to help customers transform with AI and rethink how they manage and analyze data.
Take Real-Time Intelligence, which is used by more than 40% of Fabric customers. Users can access real-time data streaming, visualization, and automation—and it is also a great conversation starter with your customers.
For developers, the Fabric Workload Development Kit supports seamless app development and monetization directly within the platform. We see key scenarios accelerating through service partners and software development companies:
- Modernizing legacy and on-premises analytics and Microsoft Power BI platforms: Modernized data estates drive successful AI transformations.
- Transitioning users of existing services to new services: Now is a great time to talk to customers about upgrading from Synapse and Power BI (see details on Power BI licensing changes).
- Winning new analytics use cases: Whether with databases in Fabric, access to models such as Anthropic’s Claude via Azure Databricks, or accelerating sustainability, you can win with Azure.
- Extending your data platform further: Using the workload development kit empowers deeper app integration.
Governance and trust
Security and governance are foundational. Microsoft Purview provides a unified view across the data estate to help you manage risk and ensure compliance.
Since Fabric was in private preview, more than 45,000 partner consultants have been trained, and 350+ partners have achieved analytics specialization. The momentum is strong—and growing.
Here are the core pillars of partner success at Microsoft:
- Skilling and enablement: Microsoft offers certifications, workshops, and sales training to meet customer demand with technical proficiency.
- Specializations and designations: Differentiate with customers and unlock deeper investment. Certified software designations and Azure specializations validate your expertise and solution reliability.
- Campaigns and marketing-as-a-service: Access go-to-market materials and demos with the same messaging as our sales team to accelerate your demand generation.
- Offerings and incentives: Azure Innovate, Azure Migrate and Modernize, and Azure Essentials help you win more customers. ISV Success provides technical resources and benefits to build applications and grow sales.
We are thrilled to see how many of our partners are already mobilizing around the opportunity with Fabric, and we hope you feel empowered and supported by Microsoft no matter where you are in your journey.
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