AI data engineering startup acquisition brings ETL and Spark automation in-house

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."

"With the acquisition of Osmos, we are taking the next step toward a future where autonomous AI agents work alongside people – helping reduce operational overhead and making it easier for customers to connect, prepare, analyze and share data across the organization," he said.

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 ...