Azure Synapse Analytics is an evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Azure SQL Data Warehouse was a massively parallel processing (MPP) cloud-based, scale-out, relational database, designed to process and store large volumes of data within the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. But, due to the circumstances of data lakes, the decision-making process becomes quite ineffective.

To overcome this aspect, Microsoft launches Azure Synapse Analytics to enhance machine learning and business intelligence capabilities.

So, instead of adding new features to each of their services, Microsoft decided to explore how they could combine their key capabilities. This will help customers gather and analyze all the varying data, to solve data inefficiency, and work together.

Also, Azure Synapse connects natively to several other Azure data services, including:

• Azure Machine Learning
• Microsoft PowerBI
• Azure Data Lake
• Azure Blob Storage
• Azure Active Directory

How Azure Synapse is beneficial for Start-ups to enterprise organizations?

Limitless scale: Deliver insights from all your data, across data warehouses and big data analytics systems, with blazing speed.

Powerful insights: Expand the discovery of insights from all your data and apply machine learning models to all your intelligent apps.

Unified experience: Significantly reduce project development time with a unified experience for developing end-to-end analytics solutions.

Instant clarity: Gain instant clarity on your business by using the freshest data possible from your operational systems, in every moment, with Synapse Link.

Unmatched security: Secure data with the most advanced security and privacy features in the market, such as column- and row-level security and dynamic data masking.

Azure Synapse Analytics is an evolving service, having only launched in the past year to enhance SQL Data Warehousing. If you or your business needs help understanding how Azure Synapse Analytics could fit your business case, connect with our expert today.