The Microsoft Fabric Blog team announces the general availability of ArcGIS GeoAnalytics integration for Fabric Spark, enabling developers and data scientists to leverage Esri’s advanced geospatial analytics natively in Fabric environments.

ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric Spark (Generally Available)

Authors: Microsoft Fabric Blog, with Madhu Bhowal, Ashit Gosalia, Aniket Adnaik, Kevin Cheung, Sarah Battersby, and Michael Park

Esri is a global market leader in GIS technology and mapping through its primary product, ArcGIS. Leveraging a new partnership, Microsoft and Esri have brought advanced spatial analytics features directly into Microsoft Fabric, now generally available for production usage.

Key Features of ArcGIS GeoAnalytics for Microsoft Fabric Spark

  • Native Integration: Esri’s geospatial analytics tools are built directly into Fabric Spark notebooks and jobs, making it easy for Spark developers and data scientists to perform advanced spatial analysis without additional setup.
  • Comprehensive Geospatial Capabilities: The integration includes:
    • Data engineering and transformations in Spark-powered Data Science or Data Engineering notebooks or as part of Data Factory pipelines.
    • Hotspot and clustering analysis to highlight statistically significant spatial clusters (e.g., high/low value areas, outliers, similarity groupings).
    • Spatial pattern identification, allowing feature and distribution analysis across timespans or geographies.
    • Spatial joins for data enrichment and analytics, bringing context via proximity-based enrichment.
    • Track and movement analysis for GPS or similar data, revealing incident patterns, motion statistics, and location changes over time.
    • Aggregation for Power BI: Results can be written to OneLake and surfaced in Power BI dashboards or incorporated into scheduled automated workflows.
  • Seamless Data Science Workflows: Integrate geospatial analysis into broader data engineering, enrichment, and reporting workflows in Fabric.

Leveraging ArcGIS in Power BI

Alongside Fabric Spark integration, the ArcGIS for Power BI solution lets organizations enhance dashboards and reports with spatial insights and custom data visualizations.

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These new capabilities enable organizations to apply location intelligence directly within their familiar Fabric Spark workflows, driving better decision-making and operational efficiency with robust spatial analytics.

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