{"id":56888,"date":"2025-04-04T07:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/?p=56888"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:37:47","slug":"microsoft-fabric-real-time-real-impact-webinar-recap_microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centricconsulting.com\/blog\/microsoft-fabric-real-time-real-impact-webinar-recap_microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Fabric: Real-Time, Real Impact Webinar Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Business leaders have long known that real-time data holds tremendous business value, but capturing that value requires tremendous infrastructure investments, specialized skill sets, and ongoing maintenance.<\/h2>\n
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Microsoft Fabric is the solution. Its no-code platform environment and Real-Time Intelligence (RTI) capabilities make live data insights more attainable for everyone. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to unlock the value of your real-time data with Microsoft Fabric<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In our webinar \u201cMicrosoft Fabric: Real-Time Real Impact<\/a>,\u201d Microsoft Data Platform MVP Josh Higginbotham and Microsoft Fabric Implementation Expert Sipi Krishna, both senior architects at Centric Consulting, reveal how Microsoft\u2019s low-code platform makes it easier to mine value from real-time data.<\/p>\n

Krishna uses her experience with the tool to show how you can build a Fabric dashboard in minutes that puts real-time data at your fingertips, while Higgenbotham draws on his client work to illustrate the value of real-time data in automotive, insurance and finance, retail, manufacturing, and logistics use cases.<\/p>\n

Why Real-Time Data Matters Now<\/h2>\n

As anyone who has received a real-time package delivery confirmation or fraud alert notification knows, many of the world\u2019s largest organizations are already using real-time data to improve customer experiences, increase efficiency, and drive down costs.<\/p>\n

Now, other businesses realize the need to catch up and launch their own real-time data initiatives. Sixty-five percent of participants in the \u201cMicrosoft Fabric: Real-Time Real Impact\u201d webinar reported being at the beginning of their real-time-data journeys \u2014 virtually the same percentage who ranked its importance as \u201cmedium\u201d or \u201chigh.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Their confidence is well-founded. According to a 2024 RTInsights study<\/a>, companies using real-time data outperformed their peers by 62 percent in revenue growth and 97 percent in profit margins.<\/p>\n

Still, for many companies the barriers of cost, infrastructure and expertise have held them back from realizing the power of real-time data. But with the expanding deployment of sensors, point-of-sale mechanisms, social media and other real-time data sources, the need to overcome those barriers and begin tapping the value of real-time data is more urgent than ever.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Fabric: An Easier Way to Capture Real-Time Data<\/h2>\n

In her demo, Krishna proved that Microsoft Fabric<\/a> significantly reduces the barriers that have prevented many companies from tapping their real-time data, whether it comes from sensors, POS terminals, social media streams, or other sources.<\/p>\n

Krishna took less than 10 minutes to create a storage database using Fabric Workspace, establish Event Streams that pull data from various sources, write KQL queries to retrieve and filter that data for visualization and build a real-time dashboard similar to Power BI. The resulting analytics pipeline delivered a streamlined, no-code approach for creating real-time analytics solutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She and Higginbotham also discussed the many use cases for using Microsoft Fabric<\/a>, such as:<\/p>\n