Eugene Meidinger covers the news:
There were many announcements last week at FabCon Barcelona. Overall, there was one clear theme: semantic models are as important as ever and have more use cases than ever before.
- You can do more with Fabric Apps soon. They will be included with Pro and PPU licenses, along with Fabric SQL DBs (up to 1 GB).
- Microsoft has officially committed to the Apache Ossie format as a vendor-neutral way of defining semantic models. A very early two-way converter is up on GitHub.
- Semantic meaning will be able to live in your Fabric lakehouse with semantic views. This will make it easier to define business meaning closer to the data.
- Fabric ontologies can now use DAX measures as explicit metrics and can be created from multiple semantic models.
Additionally, Microsoft has shown a clear and continued commitment to supporting AI agents for Power BI report development, Fabric App development, and semantic modeling. Expect this to continue into the future.
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