By Frederic Lardinois
Publication Date: 2026-09-30 14:46:00
Microsoft is turning Fabric, its integrated data platform, into the place enterprise agents go to learn how a company works, whether that’s what happened last quarter or what’s happening on the factory floor right now.
On Tuesday, at its FabCon and SQLCon data conference in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft outlined the next step in its vision for how the products that make up Fabric can simplify all of this information gathering.
Microsoft, for example, described how Fabric IQ, the context layer inside Fabric, now feeds Microsoft 365 Copilot by default. Outside agents can query it over MCP. Power BI will soon be able to turn the same definitions into apps. And ontologies, which add business rules to the mix, moved further into preview.
As Microsoft Fabric CTO Amir Netz said in a press briefing after the keynote, “Agents are a very, very strange animal, and I always like to say it’s like Drew Barrymore from 50 First Dates. Every time…
