SEATTLE, January 26, 2024 – Microsoft today announced it has acquired Osmos, an AI-powered data engineering platform, aiming to drastically simplify how organizations prepare data for analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
Microsoft Fabric Gains Agentic AI Capabilities
The acquisition promises to accelerate data-to-insight cycles by automating complex data workflows.
- Many organizations struggle to make their data useful, spending excessive time on readiness rather than analysis.
- Osmos uses “agentic AI” to automate the conversion of raw data into analytics-ready assets within Microsoft Fabric.
- The move reinforces Microsoft’s commitment to a unified data and analytics platform.
- The osmos team will integrate with Microsoft’s Fabric engineering organization.
For many businesses, data is abundant, but turning that data into actionable intelligence is often a slow, expensive, and manual process. Osmos addresses this challenge by leveraging agentic AI to automate the process of converting raw data into analytics and AI-ready assets within OneLake, the core data lake of Microsoft Fabric.
What does this mean for data teams? The integration of Osmos into Microsoft Fabric aims to reduce operational overhead and empower customers to more easily connect,prepare,analyze,and share data across their organizations.
A Step Towards Autonomous Data Management
This acquisition builds upon Microsoft Fabric’s broader vision of creating a unified, secure platform for all data and analytics needs.Microsoft views this as a step toward a future where autonomous AI agents collaborate with people, streamlining data workflows and accelerating insights.
“Today’s announcement reinforces microsoft’s focus to help every organization unlock more value from their data faster and with greater simplicity,” the company stated. The Osmos team will now be part of Microsoft’s Fabric engineering organization, contributing to the progress of simpler, more intuitive, and AI-ready data experiences.
Microsoft encourages users to follow updates on the integration of Osmos into Fabric through the Microsoft Fabric blog.
Bogdan Crivat leads Microsoft’s Azure Data Analytics, building the Fabric engines for big data behind Power BI, and our AI-powered analytics infrastructure.
