How does using real pricing (not estimates) change how you architect an app?
Microsoft pitches unified data-to-intelligence stack via Fabric, Foundry, and Work IQ
“Microsoft is really working on this unified stack where you can take your data wherever it is and take it all the way to intelligence through this stack of Work IQ, Foundry IQ, and Fabric IQ.”
A Microsoft Build session describes a three-layer data stack: a unified lake (ingest, mirror, or shortcut data), a semantic model layer, and an actions/policies layer, all feeding into Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, and Work IQ for intelligence. The pitch is that enterprises can reach AI-ready intelligence without centralizing data. The content is a high-level marketing walkthrough with no novel engineering depth and the session title about real pricing does not match the actual content.