Business leaders have long known that real-time data holds tremendous business value, but capturing that value requires tremendous infrastructure investments, specialized skill sets, and ongoing maintenance.
Microsoft Fabric is the solution. Its no-code platform environment and Real-Time Intelligence (RTI) capabilities make live data insights more attainable for everyone. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to unlock the value of your real-time data with Microsoft Fabric.
In our webinar “Microsoft Fabric: Real-Time Real Impact,” Microsoft Data Platform MVP Josh Higginbotham and Microsoft Fabric Implementation Expert Sipi Krishna, both senior architects at Centric Consulting, reveal how Microsoft’s low-code platform makes it easier to mine value from real-time data.
Krishna uses her experience with the tool to show how you can build a Fabric dashboard in minutes that puts real-time data at your fingertips, while Higgenbotham draws on his client work to illustrate the value of real-time data in automotive, insurance and finance, retail, manufacturing, and logistics use cases.
Why Real-Time Data Matters Now
As anyone who has received a real-time package delivery confirmation or fraud alert notification knows, many of the world’s largest organizations are already using real-time data to improve customer experiences, increase efficiency, and drive down costs.
Now, other businesses realize the need to catch up and launch their own real-time data initiatives. Sixty-five percent of participants in the “Microsoft Fabric: Real-Time Real Impact” webinar reported being at the beginning of their real-time-data journeys — virtually the same percentage who ranked its importance as “medium” or “high.”
Their confidence is well-founded. According to a 2024 RTInsights study, companies using real-time data outperformed their peers by 62 percent in revenue growth and 97 percent in profit margins.
Still, for many companies the barriers of cost, infrastructure and expertise have held them back from realizing the power of real-time data. But with the expanding deployment of sensors, point-of-sale mechanisms, social media and other real-time data sources, the need to overcome those barriers and begin tapping the value of real-time data is more urgent than ever.
Microsoft Fabric: An Easier Way to Capture Real-Time Data
In her demo, Krishna proved that Microsoft Fabric significantly reduces the barriers that have prevented many companies from tapping their real-time data, whether it comes from sensors, POS terminals, social media streams, or other sources.
Krishna took less than 10 minutes to create a storage database using Fabric Workspace, establish Event Streams that pull data from various sources, write KQL queries to retrieve and filter that data for visualization and build a real-time dashboard similar to Power BI. The resulting analytics pipeline delivered a streamlined, no-code approach for creating real-time analytics solutions.
She and Higginbotham also discussed the many use cases for using Microsoft Fabric, such as:
- Automotive and Fleet Management: Monitoring vehicle telemetry, detecting when vehicles need maintenance, automatically alerting repair and maintenance teams
- Manufacturing: Monitoring production line quality through real-time sensors and machine vision, detecting defects, creating real-time overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) dashboards
- Logistics and Warehouse Management: Tracking orders through pick, pack, and ship processes, identifying breakdowns or inefficiencies, monitoring SLA compliance
- Finance and Insurance: Detecting credit card fraud, processing high-volume transactions immediately, responding to catastrophes for insurance claims, mapping high-claim concentration areas during disasters
- Energy and Utilities: Monitoring critical infrastructure, predictive maintenance, integrating weather data to predict and prevent outages
- Retail: Monitoring inventory levels in real time, alerting staff when shelves need restocking, providing real-time product recommendations to customer
How Viewing This Webinar Can Help
After viewing the playback of “Microsoft Fabric: Real-Time Real Impact,” you will have our experts’ perspective on:
- How Microsoft Fabric’s architecture combines multiple data services (Azure Synapse, Power BI, Data Factory, and so on) into a single, cost-effective platform
- How to act on real-time data with unified, low-code, no-code solutions available in Microsoft Fabric
- Practical guidance and use cases for implementation
- How to stay current with the latest platform updates and changes
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