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Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and semantic models

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Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and semantic models

How Power BI fits inside Microsoft Fabric — semantic models, Direct Lake, OneLake, and the unified data platform.

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What Fabric provides

Fabric bundles several previously separate Microsoft data products into one platform:

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Semantic models

What were called datasets in Power BI are now semantic models in Fabric. A semantic model is the reusable definition of tables, relationships, measures, and calculations that one or many Power BI reports consume.

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Direct Lake

For models built against Fabric Lakehouses or Warehouses, Direct Lake is the default and usually the right choice.

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OneLake and shortcuts

This makes Power BI semantic models source-agnostic: the lakehouse can be a mix of native Fabric data and external lakes, and the model doesn't care.

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What changes for Power BI customers

If you're running Power BI Pro and Premium today:

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