Microsoft announced new Fabric and Azure data capabilities on September 28. The company positioned Fabric IQ as a semantic context layer that connects business data to agents and introduced agentic data-engineering features intended to automate complex engineering work while keeping organizations in control.
Context and agentic operations
Microsoft's announcement spans Fabric IQ, autonomous data engineering, data connectivity, and a Database Hub preview. It describes availability separately by feature and service; this article treats the launch as a product announcement, not evidence that every capability is generally available.
The release is strategically relevant because enterprise agents depend on governed access to business data and operational workflows. Microsoft did not publish independent performance results in the announcement.