Geo Analytics with Esri in Fabric
About this session
In this session, you'll learn about the ability to analyse and manipulate geospatial data at scale with Fabric. With a brand-new capability to access Esri's geospatial functions in Fabric spark notebooks, you can take the load off your Power BI reporting layer, and generate insights from location data that you can then expose for visualisation and interaction in your reports. This capability is rolling out to Fabric tenants of any SKU through January and February and will be free of any additional cost over and above capacity used for data processing for the period of public preview, meaning there is no requirement for an Esri license.
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