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Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service

Azure enables scalable, AI-driven integration across cloud and on-prem systems.1,2
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Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms.1,3
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Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services

Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services.1,4
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Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms

Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms.1, 5
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The Forrester Wave™: DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025

Microsoft was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: DevOps Platforms, Q2 20256
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    Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service, Andrew Humphreys, Andrew Comes, Keith Guttridge, Allan Wilkins, 19 May 2025.
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    Gartner, Emerging Tech: AI Vendor Race: Customer Trust Is a Critical Barrier to Agentic AI Adoption7, Danielle Casey, Alfredo Ramirez IV, Anushree Verma, Akhil Singh, Aakanksha Bansal. 2 June 2025.
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    Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms, Afraz Jaffri, Maryam Hassanlou, Tong Zhang, Deepak Seth, Yogesh Bhatt, 28 May 2025.