Microsoft Fabric Blog highlights Microsoft’s achievement as a Leader in Forrester Wave™: Data Fabric Platforms, Q4 2025, emphasizing innovation in unified data, AI, and analytics.

Microsoft Recognized as a Leader in Forrester Wave™: Data Fabric Platforms, Q4 2025

Microsoft has been named a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Data Fabric Platforms, Q4 2025, receiving the highest scores in both the Current Offering and Strategy categories. This marks Microsoft’s first full participation in this evaluation and underscores the rapid momentum of Microsoft Fabric since its debut in 2023.

Key Highlights

  • Comprehensive Solution: Microsoft Fabric received the highest possible scores in 19 of 26 criteria, highlighting its strengths in end-to-end data fabric, agentic AI, real-time integration, and unified governance.
  • AI-Driven Platform: The Forrester report recognized Microsoft’s unified, intelligent, and agentic data fabric, which brings together data management, advanced analytics, AI, and visualization, all built on the OneLake multi-cloud data lake foundation.
  • Innovations in AI & Analytics: Microsoft was noted for innovations in agentic AI, automation, and intelligent analytics, enabling new methods for managing, integrating, and visualizing data at scale.
  • Copilot in Fabric: The integration of Copilot provides users with AI-powered natural language interactions to shape data and extract insights efficiently.
  • Enterprise Customer Impact: Organizations such as LSEG, Lumen Technologies, and Apollo Hospitals are leveraging Fabric to unify data, modernize operations, and advance AI-driven innovation.

Community and Ecosystem

Microsoft acknowledges the role of its customers, partners, and the community—including Microsoft MVPs—in shaping Fabric’s direction and continued innovation. Their ongoing feedback and participation are credited with helping build a more unified, intelligent data ecosystem.

Looking Ahead

Readers are encouraged to consult the full Forrester report and to participate in upcoming events like Microsoft Ignite and the Fabric Community Conference, which will showcase the latest features in data, AI, and analytics from Microsoft Fabric.

For more details, visit the Microsoft Fabric Blog post.

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