As AI agents take on more responsibility, one foundational question keeps surfacing: Are my agents hunting for data?

In this episode of The Shift Podcast: Agentic Edition, members of the Microsoft Fabric team explore how data access, organization, and governance directly affect how agents function in real-world systems. Rather than focusing on algorithms alone, the discussion centers on the data layer—and why fragmented, hard‑to‑find data can limit what agents are able to do.

The conversation covers:

· Why agents depend on unified, governed enterprise data.

· How concepts like data lakes, data warehousing, and data meshes show up in agentic systems.

· The importance of treating data as context, not just storage.

· How M ...