Microsoft Fabric just made custom web dashboards possible without a frontend engineering team. 👀
DAX queries into your semantic model. Entra ID auth baked in. Rendered results delivered to the user. No separate stack. No deployment headaches.
Some will call it the democratisation of software engineering. I’d call it the democratisation of distribution.
And distribution without foundation is just reach without reliability.
✅ No separate stack – but your semantic model still has to be worth querying.
✅ Auth baked in – but permissions mean nothing if the underlying data isn’t trusted.
✅ No deployment headaches – but you can’t deploy your way out of poor data quality.
We’ve always been very good at making bad data easier to access. A polished interface on top of ungoverned data isn’t a data product. It’s a faster route to the same old problems. 🧐
The boring work still has to happen first. Data quality. Governance. A semantic layer people can actually rely on. Analytics Engineers are more important than ever! ✨
Get that right, and this is a genuinely powerful delivery surface. 🎶
Get it wrong, and you’ve just given everyone a prettier view of the mess. 💡
