微软正在将其数据分析与工程环境推向一批规模比现有基础大“一个数量级”的新商业用户。Power BI 已成为一款广受欢迎的商业智能系统，在全球拥有超过 42.5 万家客户，尤其是在微软 Dynamics 应用组合的客户群中表现突出。现在，微软高管正试图利用这种渗透率，向 Power BI 客户提供其 Fabric 数据分析与工程平台上可用的高端数据库服务和应用构建工具。
Microsoft is pushing its data analytics and engineering environment to a new set of commercial users that are an “order of magnitude” greater than its current base. Power BI has become a popular biz intelligence system - with more than 425,000 customers worldwide - particularly among customers of the Microsoft Dynamics application portfolio. Now, Microsoft execs are trying to exploit this penetration by offering Power BI customers high-end database services and app building tools available on its Fabric data analytics and engineering platform.
获得 Power BI Pro 和 Power BI Premium Per User 许可的客户，将免费获得 Fabric 应用和 Fabric 数据库功能（每个应用最高 1GB），以及相应的安全性保障。微软表示，客户在 Fabric 中构建的应用可以轻松迁移到 Power BI，无需额外的工作或成本。
Customers who license Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium Per User will get Fabric Apps and Fabric Database capabilities (up to 1GB per app), along with security, at no additional cost. Microsoft argues that the Apps customers are building in Fabric can be ported to Power BI without much additional work or cost.
微软执行副总裁 Arun Ulag 在接受采访时表示：“我们目前拥有 4 万家 Fabric 客户。而 Power BI 的规模大了一个数量级，拥有 42.5 万家客户——这是指组织而非个人。Power BI 每月的商业用户使用量超过 3500 万。”
Arun Ulag, exec veep at Microsoft, told The: “We have 40,000 Fabric customers today. Power BI is an order of magnitude larger, with 425,000 customers: organizations, not individuals. The usage of Power BI exceeds 35 million business users every month,” he said.
微软现在正向这一用户群提供使用开源 SDK Rayfin 构建数据分析类应用的能力。该公司表示，Rayfin 将允许用户创建自己的数据应用，这些应用能够接收输入、回写数据、保持共享状态，并支持跨 Fabric 的操作工作流。每个应用都配有一个 1GB 的 Fabric SQL 数据库、身份验证和安全性功能。随着应用的发展，用户可以在无需重建的情况下扩展其功能，并将其移交给开发人员和 IT 团队。
Microsoft is now offering this user base the ability to build data analytics-style apps using Rayfin, an open source SDK. The company says Rafin will let users create their own data applications that accept inputs, write back data, preserve shared state, and support operational workflows across to Fabric. Each application gets a 1GB Fabric SQL database, authentication, and security. As an application grows, users can expand its functionality and hand it off to developers and IT teams without rebuilding it.
Ulag 表示，通过将 Fabric 应用开发引入 Power BI，微软展示了“仪表板和应用之间的界限正在消失”。
By bringing Fabric application development to Power BI, Microsoft is showing that the “distinctions between a dashboard and an app are disappearing,” Ulag said.
Rayfin 是专为与 GitHub Copilot、Claude Code 或 Codex 等编码辅助工具协同使用而设计的；用户可以通过这些工具指示编码辅助工具在指定的位置（即 Fabric 环境中）构建应用程序并进行部署。该功能计划在未来几周内以预览版的形式推出。Fabric 是微软在 2023 年推出的一个集成式分析、数据仓库及数据湖解决方案。
Rayfin is designed to work with GitHub Copilot; Claude Code or Codex; or any coding agent, letting users instruct a coding agent to build an application and deploy where they specify, in a Fabric environment. The feature is scheduled to be available in preview in the coming weeks. Fabric was anounced by Microsoft in 2023 as an integrated analytics, data warehouse and data lake environment.
该平台后来新增了数据镜像功能，允许用户在无需直接向其他系统发送 SQL 查询的情况下对这些系统中的数据进行分析。去年，微软还向 Fabric 平台添加了事务型数据库，包括其文档数据库 Cosmos DB 和 Fabric SQL 关系型数据库系统。目前，微软正在进一步扩展其与其他平台的集成能力，例如 Salesforce 的应用程序和数据系统。
It has since added data mirroring to allow users to run analytics on data in other environments without pushing SQL queries directly to them. Last year, the vendor added transactional databases to the environment, including its document database Cosmos DB and Fabric SQL relational system. Microsoft says it is now extending its integration with other platforms, including Salesforce application and data systems.
微软正在测试与 Salesforce Data Cloud 360 的双向集成功能，使得 Salesforce 的数据能够被整合到微软的整个系统中，用于分析及人工智能应用；同时这些数据也不会被重复存储。Salesforce 自身也拥有自己的数据管理和代理构建平台。
It is previewing bidirectional integration with Salesforce Data Cloud 360, making data from the CRM vendor available across the Microsoft system for analytics and AI, including as business context for Fabric data agents, without duplicating that data. Salesforce also has its own data environment and agent-building platform.®