Why Microsoft is unifying data and AI within Fabric

Digital twin builder to support enterprise automation use cases

Another tenet of Microsoft’s data and intelligence unification strategy is the addition of a digital twin builder inside Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence, a workload that is aimed at analyzing streaming and log data.

The digital twin building, which is accessed through a low-code interface in Real-Time Intelligence, will enable enterprises to create virtual replicas of physical assets like machinery and logical entities like customers, in order to help automate entire processes, said Ulag. He said that process automation can be achieved via Fabric as enterprises will be able to link telemetry, real-time data, real-time data analysis, and workflows into an AI-driven application.

Constellation Research’s Ni agrees with Ulag’s vision and said that unlike digital twins, which are simply digital models of physical assets, Fabric’s digital twin builder acts as the foundation layer of data intelligence.