"Microsoft has bought Osmos, an AI-assisted data engineering platform, in a bid to enrich its Fabric data platform, encroaching on so-called partners' markets. Founded in 2019, Osmos was already making its pipeline and upload products available on Fabric, based around open source Apache Spark. In a blog post, Bogdan Crivat, Microsoft corporate veep for Azure Data Analytics, said the purchase will support Fabric's mission to give customers an approach to "unify all data and analytics into a single, secure platform.""
"In a separate statement, Roy Hasson, Microsoft senior director of product, said the buy will simplify extract-transform-load data engineering tasks (ETL) with Apache Spark using AI. "Osmos launched their AI data wrangler and AI data engineering agents on Microsoft Fabric as a native app almost two years ago, allowing customers to quickly unpack, convert and transform complex, un/semi-structured data into ready-to-use Iceberg tables stored in [Microsoft lakehouse] OneLake," he said in a social media post."
Microsoft acquired Osmos, an AI-assisted data engineering platform founded in 2019, to bolster the Fabric data platform and expand into partner-adjacent markets. Osmos already offered pipeline and upload products on Fabric built on open source Apache Spark. The acquisition is framed as advancing Fabric's goal to unify data and analytics and to introduce autonomous AI agents that reduce operational overhead. The purchase aims to simplify Spark-based extract-transform-load (ETL) tasks using AI. Osmos's native Fabric app converted complex un/semi-structured data into Iceberg tables stored in OneLake and reportedly cut development and maintenance effort by about 50 percent. The deal signals a strategic shift toward deeper platform control alongside Databricks-based open source tooling.
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