RunAs Radio Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag
Jul 16, 2025
In this engaging discussion, Arun Ulag, who leads product management for Azure Data, dives into the exciting advancements of Fabric as it evolves into a comprehensive data solution. He highlights its expansion into real-time intelligence and how it's designed to streamline data management for AI workloads. Arun also showcases the power of conversational interfaces that enable quicker access to data insights, helping organizations make informed decisions swiftly. The conversation underscores the importance of integrating tools like Power BI for enhanced analytics and collaboration.
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Fabric's Rapid Platform Expansion
- Fabric expanded from an analytics platform to include real-time intelligence and transactional databases within 18 months.
- It now integrates analytics, real-time data, and operational databases in one platform with open lake storage.
Balance Discipline and Flexibility
- Balance core IT discipline with edge flexibility by enabling business users to extend data with no-code tools.
- Avoid IT bottlenecks by empowering business to advance without waiting for development resources.
Users Circumvent IT for Solutions
- A high-performing team in an organization adopted a third-party cloud product without IT involvement.
- This showed users often circumvent IT to meet needs, highlighting the importance of flexible data tooling.