Microsoft’s Kennie Pontoppidan Discusses the Business Central-Fabric OneLake Mirroring Service
Tom Smith, Cloud Wars Analyst, Cloud Wars, talks with Kennie Pontoppidan, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, about Microsoft updates, specifically connectivity between Business Central and the Fabric data management platform.
Key Takeaways
- The announcement: Pontoppidan describes the recent announcement from Microsoft about the public preview of the new mirroring service from Business Central online (Saas version) into Fabric OneLake. “It allows a customer or an administrator to go into Business Central in a new app, and then pick which tables and companies they would like to mirror,” he explains.
- Customer benefits: This is the first time that Business Central users can take advantage of all the functionality in Fabric. Customers who need a not complex but not simple platform and need to mix-and-match data from different systems will benefit from this, as getting the data into Fabric through this update enables various Office applications.
- Using the data: Once this data is mirrored or copied into Fabric, not only can users use Power BI on it but also use third-party tools and data platforms that build on Fabric. With innovation happening around Fabric, there is something that can now reside and do things on Business Central data. This opens up data access. “This is just giving you access to all the data you want in Fabric, and then you can go play. You can do anything you want there,” Pontoppidan says.
- Steps for setup: Setup requires a Business Central application, expected to be available through App Source, and an open mirroring database in Fabric. Data access governance is managed in Fabric using role-based security and other available security models. Unlike an API-based approach, mirroring avoids creating or extending APIs and building separate infrastructure to call them and store data.
