Microsoft Fabric aims to unify everything from data integration and engineering to batch and real-time analytics under a single, cohesive SaaS data platform. Beyond analytics, the platform has also branched out into transactional use cases with the likes of SQL databases or Activator event detections. But that still leaves many operational scenarios that require bulk […]
Microsoft Fabric offers three specialized database engines for different workloads: SQL Database for transactional processing with ACID guarantees, Data Warehouse for analytical workloads with T-SQL compatibility, and Lakehouse for flexible data lake scenarios with read-only SQL access. Learn how to choose the right engine for PowerTable applications based on your specific requirements for consistency, performance, and governance.
We've spent decades getting the relationship between transactional systems and analytics backward. In the early days of enterprise computing, organizations ran analytics directly on their transactional systems. This created performance nightmares as analytical queries locked up databases that were trying to process orders and run the business. The industry responded by splitting systems: transactional workloads […]
One of the most persistent challenges in financial planning and analysis is managing forward-looking master data—data for employees not yet hired, products not yet launched, or customers still in the pipeline. This type of data, while not yet present in core systems like the ERP or HRIS, is essential for accurate budgeting and strategic forecasting. […]
Budget cycles, planning sessions, and forecasting updates—these are familiar challenges in every finance department. After weeks of crunching numbers, debating assumptions, and building models, the final product can often feel "off." Variances emerge that no one can explain, actuals diverge from the plan, and the whole process ends up taking longer than expected. The usual […]
Lumel is excited to announce the public preview of PowerTable, which is available as a native Microsoft Fabric workload. "Enterprises have adopted modern data platforms, but data apps continue to operate on replicated data in silos. Next gen apps like PowerTable push down all processing to your cloud data platform so that there is no […]
