I don't believe the license price model is stable yet based on the information I got from my company internally. There is a rough documentation online as of today for the current plan but it's a bit complicated I would say. I'm hoping MS could simplify it a bit
Our organization has integrated Power BI as our primary BI tool for the frontend. Presently, we're transitioning to utilizing Databricks on Azure as our data platform, opting against Fabric. What are your insights regarding Databricks? Do you believe Fabric is sufficiently mature for large-scale enterprises?
We are relaying on power bi dataflows a lot in our organization. Dozens of users have premium per user license and data is mainly stored in Power BI dataflows for reports and datasets. Will this change the way we work and/or pricing?
Microsoft Fabric won't change the current Power BI Licensing. It would be some more SKUs for that, but you still would have your dataflows and Power BI working as it does right now with your current licenses.
Great video Reza, thanks. Often these simple explanations are hard to find. Do you have an article or video on when to shift to the more complex data warehousing solutions rather than leaving data in the Power BI model. My experience is that this is too complex for many small businesses but I'd appreciate your insights on when it becomes worth the investment and what the trigger would be to change.
Didn't get what is this all about. Maybe this is clear for Synapse or similar folks, but not for a Power BI report developer. You say "umbrella". What sort of umbrella? Power Query is an umbrella for all sorts of data sources. Looks like Fabric is an umbrella of an umbrella?
There are things that you cannot do with Power BI, that is where the Fabric comes in, for large scale Data movement, applying machine leaning algorithms on it (more than what you can do with Power Query and API calls), the storage of structured and unstructured data etc.
@@RADACAD yes, where there data is on higher scale and have data architecture from many sources of structured and unstructured data then it needs data lake, data warehouse, big data computing platform like data bricks, synapse, data bricks, spark, ETL tool and at end reporting. It was there before. But it seems like this fabric is making closer Integration of all these tools.
It is more like a suite. You can call the entire solution as Microsoft Fabric solution, because you create it in Microsoft Fabric portal etc. But different implementation might use different workloads of it.
It looks like the tools are the same as before but now available in one place? So it is still required to learn syntax, code,... for each service individually if I understood correctly? br
That is right, for learning Microsoft Fabric in deep, you need to learn Power BI, Azure Data Factor, and Synapse in Deep. They have some enhancements now for example, Power BI comes with the new DirectLake option, but still principals are the same, you would need to learn the technologies.
Everything looks different in PBI service._ Asked me to upgrade for the trial version which I did but not very familiar with any of it so watching this help shed some light on this new product. Will Direct Lake have Query folding capabilities? Thanks
Thanks for the video. You mentioned the license can be used for other workloads too. Will the licensing be such that it will be valuable Only if all components are used? Or will scaled up and down in some ways? (still find it hard that there is no automated Power BI Embedding license start/pause mechanism)
F SKUs for Fabric can be turned off and down. but there will be other SKUs in the future with a different style as well. I'll share a licensing video soon. Basically you will get the license, and that gives you a capacity to work on, behind the scene of that capacity the compute power can be used for all the workloads in your workspaces.
Thanks Reza for this informative video, however (and I quickly scanned comment and did not see any reference to this) is Fabric only available for Power BI tenants with Premium capacity? We only have PBI Pro and a a few PPU licenses.
No. Fabric's licensing is different from Power BI. These days you can apply for a 60 days trial. In short, Fabric licensing is combined version of per user and per capacity based. I will publish a video about it. Your Power BI per user licenses won't be enough for Fabric, no matter Pro or PPU. you would need a capacity. Fabric licenses are F skus.
Hi Reza, it seems that fabric is doing a lot of the things that databrick is doing... Do any experts here can compare and contrast fabric vs databricks?
@@RADACADyes please !! i’m looking for such comparison for days and I cannot find anything ; as well it will be interesting to cover an usage cost comparison between similar workload scenarios which could be managed with Databricks (QED : can we expect some savings migrating our workloads from ADB to Fabric for instance, can we expect better performance …. « can we do more with less » type of question 😊
my question is this, do we still have to learn DAX and Excel FUNCTIONS ? I just purchase a Power BI course of $349, now I have fear that it might not be useful as reckoned. What is my faith as a data analyst?
You definitely need to learn DAX for working with Power BI anytime. So investing on learning it would be money well spend. All other technologies related to Power BI, they complement it, won't replace DAX
It's probably worth noting that you can use chatgpt to write and troubleshoot fairly complex Dax expressions right now. So I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that copilot will probably write most Dax for you eventually. Of course, I'm just speculating, but it seems very plausible to me.
I'm not a huge DAX fan. If possible, I would rather create a view or a stored procedure at the source and connect to that. Or think about some other workaround.
Thanks Reza. That was a fantastic overview! Waiting to hear more from you in this space in upcoming days.
Thank you Reza for this update. Will try it out. Happy to hear that Leila is recovering.
FINALLY. Something clear and concise that make the MS documentation make more sense. Thank you Reza.🙏
thanks for your kind words. Always glad to hear it helps
Thanks Reza for the quick and easy to understand intro.
No doubt a praiseworthy presentation clear enough!
Looking forward for similar ones ahead too Reza.
Thanks :)
Thank you for the update!!!
Would it be possible for you to have a dedicated video explaining the licensing of Microsoft Fabric?
That is in the plan
I don't believe the license price model is stable yet based on the information I got from my company internally. There is a rough documentation online as of today for the current plan but it's a bit complicated I would say. I'm hoping MS could simplify it a bit
difference between onelake ,lakehouse and warehouse in fabric?
Great video, as always. Thanks, Reza.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Our organization has integrated Power BI as our primary BI tool for the frontend.
Presently, we're transitioning to utilizing Databricks on Azure as our data platform, opting against Fabric. What are your insights regarding Databricks? Do you believe Fabric is sufficiently mature for large-scale enterprises?
We are relaying on power bi dataflows a lot in our organization. Dozens of users have premium per user license and data is mainly stored in Power BI dataflows for reports and datasets. Will this change the way we work and/or pricing?
Microsoft Fabric won't change the current Power BI Licensing. It would be some more SKUs for that, but you still would have your dataflows and Power BI working as it does right now with your current licenses.
Great video Reza, thanks. Often these simple explanations are hard to find.
Do you have an article or video on when to shift to the more complex data warehousing solutions rather than leaving data in the Power BI model. My experience is that this is too complex for many small businesses but I'd appreciate your insights on when it becomes worth the investment and what the trigger would be to change.
Curious to know if there will be license differences for report builders vs viewers etc. Looking forward to next video's on the topic.
I have explained the licensing in another video recently.
Thank you so much for hard work and for sharing such a great news
Didn't get what is this all about. Maybe this is clear for Synapse or similar folks, but not for a Power BI report developer. You say "umbrella". What sort of umbrella? Power Query is an umbrella for all sorts of data sources. Looks like Fabric is an umbrella of an umbrella?
There are things that you cannot do with Power BI, that is where the Fabric comes in, for large scale Data movement, applying machine leaning algorithms on it (more than what you can do with Power Query and API calls), the storage of structured and unstructured data etc.
@@RADACAD OK, thanks !
@@RADACAD yes, where there data is on higher scale and have data architecture from many sources of structured and unstructured data then it needs data lake, data warehouse, big data computing platform like data bricks, synapse, data bricks, spark, ETL tool and at end reporting. It was there before. But it seems like this fabric is making closer Integration of all these tools.
Thank you so much, great informative video.
I enabled Fabric but can you please show us how to find copilot to creat Power bi report?
We will do a video on copilot later too
Very insightful, thanks Reza !
very interesting video and well explained. thank you.
is fabric a standalone app? Or is it more of a suite and framework of other apps?
It is more like a suite. You can call the entire solution as Microsoft Fabric solution, because you create it in Microsoft Fabric portal etc. But different implementation might use different workloads of it.
Thank you! This means exams and certifications are going to be changed once it's out of preview!!
Yes, we believe so
When will it be out of preview. Ive been learning for the pl300 cert. Planning to do the exam next week.
@@mainuser98 Definitely Not before your exam!
It looks like the tools are the same as before but now available in one place? So it is still required to learn syntax, code,... for each service individually if I understood correctly?
br
That is right, for learning Microsoft Fabric in deep, you need to learn Power BI, Azure Data Factor, and Synapse in Deep. They have some enhancements now for example, Power BI comes with the new DirectLake option, but still principals are the same, you would need to learn the technologies.
Everything looks different in PBI service._ Asked me to upgrade for the trial version which I did but not very familiar with any of it so watching this help shed some light on this new product. Will Direct Lake have Query folding capabilities? Thanks
We will have a video on DirectLake
At the moment you can use the trial 60 days account for Fabric
Thanks for the video.
You mentioned the license can be used for other workloads too. Will the licensing be such that it will be valuable Only if all components are used? Or will scaled up and down in some ways? (still find it hard that there is no automated Power BI Embedding license start/pause mechanism)
F SKUs for Fabric can be turned off and down. but there will be other SKUs in the future with a different style as well. I'll share a licensing video soon.
Basically you will get the license, and that gives you a capacity to work on, behind the scene of that capacity the compute power can be used for all the workloads in your workspaces.
Thanks Reza for this informative video, however (and I quickly scanned comment and did not see any reference to this) is Fabric only available for Power BI tenants with Premium capacity? We only have PBI Pro and a a few PPU licenses.
No. Fabric's licensing is different from Power BI. These days you can apply for a 60 days trial.
In short, Fabric licensing is combined version of per user and per capacity based. I will publish a video about it.
Your Power BI per user licenses won't be enough for Fabric, no matter Pro or PPU. you would need a capacity. Fabric licenses are F skus.
@@RADACAD Thank you for your prompt response, glad to hear we may be able to use Fabric, looking forward to your video with more details about this.
Thank you for the update. Like your channel. Hope Leila is doing well.
Thanks. She is going under radiotherapy sessions these days. hopefully will start recovering from a few weeks.
@RADACAD fast recovery inchallah. 🙏
thank you reza for great explanation :)
Looks good but how expensive it is?
Licensing video will come soon. stay tuned.
Hi Reza, it seems that fabric is doing a lot of the things that databrick is doing...
Do any experts here can compare and contrast fabric vs databricks?
We don't have that comparison yet. but we might have that in one of the future videos. great idea :) thanks
@@RADACADyes please !! i’m looking for such comparison for days and I cannot find anything ; as well it will be interesting to cover an usage cost comparison between similar workload scenarios which could be managed with Databricks (QED : can we expect some savings migrating our workloads from ADB to Fabric for instance, can we expect better performance …. « can we do more with less » type of question 😊
my question is this, do we still have to learn DAX and Excel FUNCTIONS ? I just purchase a Power BI course of $349, now I have fear that it might not be useful as reckoned. What is my faith as a data analyst?
omg $349 ? where did u buy the course from ?
@@anonymous18815 sqlbi
You definitely need to learn DAX for working with Power BI anytime. So investing on learning it would be money well spend. All other technologies related to Power BI, they complement it, won't replace DAX
It's probably worth noting that you can use chatgpt to write and troubleshoot fairly complex Dax expressions right now.
So I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that copilot will probably write most Dax for you eventually.
Of course, I'm just speculating, but it seems very plausible to me.
I'm not a huge DAX fan. If possible, I would rather create a view or a stored procedure at the source and connect to that. Or think about some other workaround.
now waiting for m$ sewing machine :}
we would publish a video about licensing when more details are out.
Thanks Reza..
Thanks a lot for this information. Highly appreciate your efforts in spreading the knowledge.
Very useful ,thanks 👍
Microsoft Great job 👏 👍
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