In this article Enabling Frontier Transformation with Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Fabric The next evolution of Power BI: Agentic app creation Move from idea to production faster with Fabric Apps Building an AI-ready data foundation with Microsoft Fabric Create and manage agents in Fabric Operate Fabric with greater visibility and control Manage, optimize, and scale your database estate One of the defining strengths of the Fabric and SQL communities is how openly people share what they are building and learning.
This week, nearly 5,000 data professionals are coming together in Barcelona to do exactly that. Across more than 130 sessions, more than 10 tutorials, community meetups, and roundtable discussions, attendees will exchange practical insights and real-world experiences that others can apply in their own organizations. The excitement in Barcelona mirrors the momentum we’re seeing throughout Microsoft’s data portfolio.
Microsoft Fabric now supports more than 40,000 customers worldwide, and for decades Microsoft SQL Server has provided the backbone of enterprise workloads including more than 90% of the Fortune 500. Customers like Levi Strauss, H&M, and Thomson Reuters are using these capabilities to unify their data estates, ground AI in their business context, and scale while remaining governed and secure.
Today, we’re announcing new innovations across Microsoft Fabric and our database portfolio designed to help organizations power their Frontier Transformation, including deep integrations with the new Microsoft Copilot, agentic app development in Microsoft Power BI , end-to-end observability in Fabric, the database hub, and more. Power your AI transformation with Microsoft Fabric Enabling Frontier Transformation with Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Fabric Software development has changed dramatically.
AI is no longer simply helping developers write code faster. Agents are beginning to work across the full development lifecycle, from planning and coding to testing and deployment. The opportunity now is to bring that same transformation to the rest of the enterprise.
But organizations need more than models and agents. They need trusted context: governed data, shared business definitions, operational knowledge, and the guardrails that help AI act reliably. This is the foundation of Frontier Transformation: embedding AI into core business processes, grounded in an organization’s unique data, knowledge, and workflows.
Microsoft is helping enable this transformation through Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft IQ, which connect AI to an organization’s knowledge, data, applications, and business context. At the center of this system is Fabric IQ , a shared intelligence layer that connects enterprise data, business metrics, and operational context across the Microsoft ecosystem. By combining unified data from Microsoft OneLake , trusted metrics from Power BI semantic models, and operational context from ontologies and real-time intelligence, Fabric IQ gives people and agents a shared understanding of the business.
Powering the new Microsoft Copilot with trusted data from Fabric IQ Millions of Microsoft 365 users rely on Microsoft Copilot every day to find information, create content, analyze data, and take action in the flow of work. With the introduction of the new Copilot last week , it’s evolving from a conversational assistant into a unified experience where people can assist, delegate, and even build.
Home brings Chat and Cowork together, while Code now gives everyone ways to build their own solutions. As Copilot takes on increasingly sophisticated work, access to trusted business context becomes essential. Today, we are excited to share we are bringing business context from Fabric IQ into Microsoft Copilot, grounding your work in a shared understanding of the business.
Microsoft Copilot customers can now tap into AI-powered insights from Fabric as part of their Copilot experience, without additional AI token costs. Fabric IQ in Copilot Chat and Cowork is generally available today, with integration into the new Code experience coming soon through the Frontier program. For Power BI customers, this semantic foundation is already in place.
Business definitions, key metrics, and organizational knowledge captured in trusted Power BI semantic models and reports can now directly inform decisions and actions in Microsoft Copilot. This allows Copilot users to ask business questions and receive AI-powered insights grounded in the semantic data layer their organization already trusts. As Bogdan Crivat highlights in his Bringing governed analytics into the flow of work: Fabric Analytics at FabCon Europe 2026 blog, this is a key step toward conversational analytics that connects enterprise data, business context, and AI to help people make better decisions.
Check out the following demo to see this in action: The next evolution of Power BI: Agentic app creation With more than 425,000 customers across every country and industry, Power BI has helped millions of users turn their data into insights. Today, we are excited to announce the next evolution of Power BI: bringing agentic app creation to Microsoft Power BI Desktop .
Business intelligence has traditionally followed a familiar pattern: analysts modeled data, built reports, and published dashboards for others to consume. Copilot in Power BI has made this process more conversational, helping users explore data and create and refine reports using natural language. Now, AI is enabling users to go beyond uncovering insights to build tools, workflows, and applications directly from their data.
The new agentic app creation experience in Power BI Desktop takes this a step further. Starting with a trusted semantic model, users can describe the application they need, generate it using natural language, preview and edit it in real time, and publish it to Microsoft Fabric without starting from a blank canvas.
Originally published at azure.microsoft.com
