Plan and prepare for Azure Data Manager for Agriculture in 2024 release wave 2

Overview

Agriculture Data Solutions, currently known as Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, is a key component of Microsoft Fabric that offers specialized data connectors tailored for the agriculture industry. These connectors facilitate the integration of various data sources, enabling organizations to access high-quality datasets and accelerate the development of digital agriculture solutions.

With the introduction of the 2024 release wave 2, new enhancements are being introduced to the agriculture-specific Common Data Model, providing increased flexibility and extensibility for customers to manage diverse data types relevant to digital agriculture. This wave also includes the integration of all Microsoft data connectors, previously available with Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, into Fabric. Additionally, the copilot template for agriculture is being upgraded with extra plugins utilizing Azure Open AI, broadening the scope of its capabilities.

Updates to Azure Data Manager for Agriculture 2024 release wave 2

Investment areas

Copilot template for digital agriculture
With Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, you can bring together farming data from various sources and use it to run apps on top of the data. The data is stored with the highest security standards, and our data manager is built to help ensure growers’ data privacy and ownership per regulation. Once the apps use farm data from Azure Data Manager, you can use additional Azure services to build and run models or analytics on a large scale. You can also explore and license solutions from independent software vendors on Azure Marketplace to meet your needs. With Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, we aim to provide organizations with analysis-ready data so they can reallocate time, people, and resources to innovative, differentiated solutions, instead of data management.

Today, prescriptive insights are typically derived from one data source and not others. But for stronger insights to drive better decision-making or to predict a future state, you need data from various sources. The accuracy of predictions correlates with the quality of the data used to make those predictions. Therfore, you need the ability to reason over different data sets that are temporally and geospatially aligned. With farm data from multiple sources, solutions running on Azure Data Manager provide stronger and more accurate insights.

Data ingestion in Agriculture data solutions
Azure Data Manager for Agriculture connects and unifies farm data from disparate sources so that organizations can develop solutions that power agriculture insights. It extends the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform with industry-specific data connectors and capabilities so developers can use data from satellites, soil sensors, farming equipment, and weather providers. Instead of devoting resources to data management, organizations can accelerate product innovation with the ability to use readily available, high-quality, and abundant data.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Azure Data Manager for Agriculture below: