What does Microsoft Fabric mean for a Finance/Business Analyst?

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Shows a concrete finance pipeline: files + SQL transactions land in a bronze/silver/gold Lakehouse, notebooks and pipelines ingest and convert messy Excel into Delta tables, dataflows build fact and dimension tables, and a semantic model sits on top for Power BI direct Lake. Claims time-to-insight drops from months to days/weeks, Co-pilot generates PySpark/SQL snippets and even calls an exchange-rate API but needs metadata to be reliable, and the end result is reusable data products with governance.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:51Manual finance challenges
3. 3:40Why analytics stays manual
4. 6:09Roles and data silos
5. 8:36Current tools limitations
6. 10:43Microsoft Fabric for finance
7. 13:56One Lake as data hub
8. 16:49Demo and architecture
9. 21:43Ingesting reference data
10. 23:53Transforming with notebooks
11. 26:18Bringing SQL data in
12. 27:41Processing with data flows
13. 31:12Building semantic model
14. 32:36Creating reports with co-pilot
15. 35:00Fabric value for finance
16. 36:48Skills and culture shifts
17. 38:14Q&A: co-pilot usage
18. 39:17Q&A: persuading CFOs
19. 42:23Q&A: data sensitivity
20. 43:51Q&A: finance team readiness
21. 46:41Q&A: capacity and scaling

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