Office Licensing Service and Azure Cosmos DB part 1: Migrating the production workload
11 May 2020
This post is part 1 of a two-part series about how organizations use Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making to them.
Data Warehouse
Microsoft is a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Analytics, Q3 2019
17 December 2019
Processing Big data in real-time is an operational necessity for many businesses. Azure Stream Analytics is Microsoft’s serverless real-time analytics offering for complex event processing.
Learn how to accelerate time to insight at the Analytics in Azure virtual event
19 November 2019
The next wave of analytics is here with Azure Synapse Analytics! Simply unmatched and truly limitless, we’re excited about this launch and want to share the highlights with you.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now Azure Synapse Analytics
07 November 2019
On November fourth, we announced Azure Synapse Analytics, the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Azure Synapse is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics.
Simply unmatched, truly limitless: Announcing Azure Synapse Analytics
04 November 2019
Today, businesses are forced to maintain two types of analytical systems, data warehouses and data lakes. Data warehouses provide critical insights on business health.
Build a data-driven culture to accelerate innovation
04 November 2019
Organizations today must embrace a data-driven culture or risk being left behind. A recent Harvard Business Review survey found organizations with data-driven cultures improve revenue by four times and unlock rich insights to drive meaningful business transformation and customer satisfaction.
The key to a data-driven culture: Timely insights
03 October 2019
A data-driven culture is critical for businesses to thrive in today’s environment. In fact, a brand-new Harvard Business Review Analytic Services survey found that companies who embrace a data-driven culture experience a 4x improvement in revenue performance and better customer satisfaction.
Announcing Azure Databricks unit pre-purchase plan and new regional availability
06 August 2019
Azure Databricks is a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark based analytics platform that simplifies the process of building big data and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Azure Databricks provides data engineers and data scientists an interactive workplace where they can use the languages and frameworks of their choice.
Azure and Informatica team up to remove barriers for cloud analytics migration
06 August 2019
Today, we are announcing the most comprehensive and compelling migration offer available in the industry to help customers simplify their cloud analytics journey. This collaboration between Microsoft and Informatica provides customers an accelerated path for their digital transformation.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse releases new capabilities for performance and security
08 May 2019
As the amount of data stored and queried continues to rise, it becomes increasingly important to have the most price-performant data warehouse. While we’re excited about being the industry leader in both of Gigaom’s TPC-H and TPC-DS benchmark reports, we don’t plan to stop innovating on behalf of our customers.