Microsoft Fabric and OneLake: Data governance and enterprise adoption
The data internet this week is awash with news and information about Microsoft Fabric. My Introducing Microsoft Fabric post on Tuesday got just under ten thousand views in the first 24 hours, which…
The more you think about the “OneDrive for data” tagline for OneLake, the more it makes sense.
Using OneLake has the potential to deliver the same type of benefits for data that OneDrive delivers for documents. I believe that when we’re thinking about what users do with OneLake we shouldn’t be asking “what additional risk is involved by letting users do the things they’re already doing, but in a new tool?” Instead, we should ask “how we enable users to do the things they’re already doing using a platform that provides greater visibility to administrators?”
In addition to providing administrator capabilities for auditing and monitoring, OneLake also includes capabilities to data professionals who need to discover and understand data. The Power BI data hub[4] has been renamed the OneLake data hub in Fabric, and allows users to discover data in the lake for which they already have permissions, or which the owners have marked as discoverable.
ince I don’t know anything about the goals or culture that inform Bike4thewin’s question, I can’t respond to them directly.. but reading between the lines I think I see an “old school” perspective on data governance rearing its head. I think that part of this question is really “how do I keep specific users from working with specific data, beyond using security controls on the data sources?
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