“Every customer recognizes that it is data that is the fuel that powers AI,” says Arun Ulag, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Azure Data. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Ulag talks with BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana about how Microsoft has been reorganizing its data management and insights portfolio for customers looking to leverage their data for AI. At the center of this is Microsoft Fabric, the company’s newer software-as-a-service, aimed at delivering a full data and analytics platform all in one. Ulag also discusses the company’s efforts to leverage open data to make its services compatible with third parties outside the Microsoft ecosystem, to provide customers with the widest range of options.