Microsoft Fabric vs Power BI: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters When Microsoft announced Fabric , many in the data community asked the same question: 👉 “Is this replacing Power BI?” The short answer: No. Power BI remains the Business Intelligence (BI) and visualization layer , while Microsoft Fabric is the complete, end-to-end data platform that includes Power BI. Let’s break it down step by step. 🔹 What is Microsoft Fabric? Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics platform that integrates data movement, data engineering, real-time analytics, data science, and business intelligence into a single SaaS product. Think of it as a unified data ecosystem where you can: Ingest data from multiple sources Transform and store data in OneLake (a lakehouse-style data storage) Use Spark for data engineering Build machine learning models Analyze streaming data And finally, visualize everything in Power BI It’s ...