Fabric Data Agents vs. Copilot Studio
Proposed session for SQLBits 2026TL; DR
Bring your structured data to Copilot! The question: Fabric Data Agents or Copilot Studio? Come along to see a lady with a hat full of data, and a Microsoft 365 and Power Platform fanatic, battle it out.
Session Details
Agents aren’t new anymore, and the Modern Workplace has seen Copilot weaving agents into the flow of work over the last year for productivity and support with simple tasks, with agents' capabilities often contextualised around unstructured data like Word documents and PDFs.
But what about that end-of-quarter report you need to pull together to present to leadership, or chatting with your data as a service desk manager wanting to understand the progress made on tickets today? What about the agents that'll need to be grounded on structured data, still ready to help us in the flow of work?
In this session, a lady with a hat full of data, and an M365 & Power Platform fanatic, battle it out… Fabric Data Agents or Copilot Studio? We’ll explore the capabilities of both for working with structured data, with the challenge of bringing your structured business data into the flow of work, accessible with Copilot in your Office applications, M365 Copilot, your meetings, and more.
But what about that end-of-quarter report you need to pull together to present to leadership, or chatting with your data as a service desk manager wanting to understand the progress made on tickets today? What about the agents that'll need to be grounded on structured data, still ready to help us in the flow of work?
In this session, a lady with a hat full of data, and an M365 & Power Platform fanatic, battle it out… Fabric Data Agents or Copilot Studio? We’ll explore the capabilities of both for working with structured data, with the challenge of bringing your structured business data into the flow of work, accessible with Copilot in your Office applications, M365 Copilot, your meetings, and more.
3 things you'll get out of this session
Learn how to ground Copilot in structured data to bring real business context into the flow of work.
Understand Data Agents in Microsoft Fabric and how these can enable Copilot-style experiences for working with structured data.
Explore the capabilities Copilot Studio has to offer for working with structured data, both in and out of the Power Platform.
Speakers
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