Microsoft Fabric has been prominent since its 2023 preview. It started as a unified data platform and became a full-stack ecosystem. For experienced Power BI users, it's familiar yet upgraded and complex with a steep learning curve. BI teams can do more than dashboards with orchestration, governance, and scalability.

In Fabric, business intelligence is about mastering a suite of interconnected tools. The article focuses on Data agents, Copilot Studio, and Real-time intelligence. Data agents translate natural language to queries, Copilot provides conversational BI, and the real-time intelligence hub handles event-driven analytics.

Key scenarios include natural-language BI where users get insights without coding, and cross-domain intelligence with Copilot calling multiple agents. Real-time intelligence can integrate large amounts of data, with features like Eventstream, Eventhouse, and Activator. For example, in real-time workspace monitoring, it can detect anomalies and take actions.

Opportunities are in natural language for accelerated BI adoption, unified governance, and real-time use cases. Challenges are query latency with multiple semantic models, data privacy and governance, limitations in real-time transformation, and model output depending on semantic model data.

Key takeaways are that Fabric's Data Agents and Copilot bring AI to users but require better data governance. Business users can build workflows without coding. Maturity means adapting practices. Output quality depends on semantic model data accuracy and there is latency in complex queries.