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."