Microsoft announced Fabric IQ for Copilot Chat and Cowork. It grounds answers in governed Power BI semantic models. Users can ask business questions and get answers tied to trusted data. Cowork can use these insights in multistep workflows. IQ Sharing in Fabric lets organizations share data and context securely. It is in preview. Observability in Fabric provides cross-workspace monitoring and a unified view. It helps teams move from reactive to proactive operations. Fabric Apps enables building applications directly on governed business data. Agentic data engineering automates complex data tasks while keeping humans in control. SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available. It lets organizations run workloads in local environments. Disconnected operations for SQL Server on Azure Local are in preview.
What changed
Business context in Copilot was not grounded in governed Power BI semantic models.
What it unlocks
Grounding Copilot answers in governed Power BI data and sharing business context across organizations while maintaining control.
- Fabric IQ now generally available in Copilot Chat and Cowork
- IQ Sharing in Fabric now in preview
- SQL Server on Azure Local now generally available
- SQL Server on Azure Local with disconnected operations in preview
What you need to act on it
- Microsoft Fabric or Power BI subscription
- Copilot Chat or Cowork access for Fabric IQ
- Preview enrollment for IQ Sharing and agentic data engineering
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