Analyst reports on cloud and Azure topics

2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems

Download this report to learn how Microsoft Azure cloud database management systems have helped to position Microsoft as a Magic Quadrant Leader.

As per Gartner, the market is converging on a set of advanced capabilities resulting in a complex landscape ready to launch into the next wave of disruption. This Magic Quadrant will help data and analytics leaders make the right choices in a complex and fast-evolving market.

Download this report to learn how Microsoft is placed in the Cloud DBMS space.

2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems, Henry Cook, Merv Adrian, Rick Greenwald, Xingyu Gu, 13 December 2022.

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Predictions 2023: Artificial Intelligence

Learn how to increase efficiency, drive innovation, and transform fundamental functions using AI. Read the Forrester report, Predictions 2023: Artificial Intelligence, to find out why AI adoption within enterprise businesses is predicted to expand and lead to more creative, optimized applications.

Get the report to:

• See five AI predictions from Forrester for 2023 and beyond. 
• Learn why AI will become indispensable for enterprises of all sizes.
• Explore how Fortune 500 companies will generate content using AI tools.

Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

Improve your organization’s business intelligence and machine learning capabilities—and discover valuable insights in all of your data—with Azure Synapse Analytics, a limitless analytics service that brings enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics together.

Get the free e-book, Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse, for a complete introduction to getting started with Azure Synapse Analytics. You’ll learn how Azure Synapse works and get step-by-step guidance on ingesting, securing, and managing your data.

See how to:

• Derive accurate, granular insights from your data using real-time streaming, data analysis, and machine learning techniques. 
• Keep your data safe using security and privacy features.
• Build end-to-end analytics solutions that include data preparation, data management, data warehousing, and AI tasks.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Technical Validation

 This ESG Technical Validation explores Microsoft Defender for Cloud and examines how the solution helps organizations  manage and harden their security posture, detect threats, and protect workloads in hybrid environments and across  multiple clouds 

Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides cloud security posture management and cloud workload protection for Azure and hybrid cloud workloads. With Microsoft Defender for  Cloud, organizations reduced their risk of a security breach to cloud workloads by up to  25%, decreased their time to cloud threat mitigation by 50%, sped up security policy and  compliance-related workloads by up to 30%, and reduced their spending on third-party  security tools and services by over $200,000 annually. 

Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Azure Arc for Security and Governance

Read about the real impact and benefits businesses are experiencing by using Azure Arc to secure and govern infrastructure and applications across hybrid, multicloud and edge environments. The Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, commissioned by Microsoft, examines the potential return on investment (ROI)  enterprises may realize by deploying Azure Arc for consistent security and governance practices.

Forrester interviewed four customers with experience using Azure Arc. For the purposes of this study, Forrester aggregated the results from these customers into a single composite organization to highlight:

• Projected return on investment (ROI) of 206%
• Projected net present value (NPV) of $2.19M
• Improved IT operations productivity by 30%
• Lowered risk of a data breach from unsecured infrastructure by 80%. 
• Reduced spending on third party tools by 15%
• Developer and IT productivity gains and increased flexibility for higher value tasks instead of managing disparate security and governance tools.

Top Trends in Data and Analytics, 2022

See the top trends in data and analytics for 2022 and be ready to anticipate change and transform uncertainty into opportunity. Read the Gartner® report, Top Trends in Data and Analytics, 2022, to learn how to turn these top trends into key investments for driving new growth—and get insights into how to help your organization realize value at scale.

Get this report to:

• Learn why data and analytics leaders must factor these trends into key investments that drive new growth, efficiency, resilience, and innovation.
• See how CEOs are working to continue accelerating growth despite uncertain and volatile environments. 
• Learn why trends point to the need for leaders to prioritize data literacy and enact strategies to address the scarcity of hirable data and analytics talent.

Gartner, Top Trends in Data and Analytics, 2022, Rita Sallam, Ted Friedman, and 37 more, 11 March 2022

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Forrester report: Enable an Insights-Driven Business

Discover how to fuel innovations, growth, and market domination by becoming an advanced insights-driven business. Read this Forrester report to learn how to maximize business impact with the insights-to-action process. You’ll explore best practices to help your business:

• Build five competencies for insights-driven success. Optimize strategy, internal partners, practices, platforms, and data.
• Exhibit creativity by innovating faster. Discover new and better ways to create, advertise, market, and refine products and services. 
• Constantly adapt to grow faster. Take advantage of digital insights to drive new revenue streams and stay on top of changing customer needs.
• Show resilience in the face of radical change. Detect and respond to changes in customer behavior—even if they’re drastic or unanticipated.

Costs and Benefits of .NET Application Migration to the Cloud

Read this analyst report to learn how to save up to 54% vs. on-premises and up to 35% vs. AWS by migrating your ASP.NET applications to Azure. The scalability and managed features of Azure App Service and Azure SQL Database help you improve developer productivity, simplify your operations, and manage your apps more efficiently.

In the report, we review the findings of a modernization platform test that compares a traditional ASP.NET application running on-premises, in Azure App Service, and on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. 

You'll also learn about different approaches to Application Modernization and how to apply them to your business.  

 Download this report to learn how to free up time to build your apps and lower costs.  

Frost&Sullivan_2021 IoT Platform of the Year

For its strong overall performance, Microsoft is recognized with Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 Global Platform of the Year Award in the IoT industry.  Frost and Sullivan believe Microsoft is leading the IoT industry with its best‐in‐class technologies ranging from its IoT platform, machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital twins, analytics, edge computing and much more.