Azure Synapse Analytics
Accelerate time to insight across enterprise data warehouses and big data systems.
Overview
Activate the value of your data faster
- Rapidly deliver insights and machine learning models from across data warehouses and big data analytics systems using limitless scale.
- Uncover powerful insights by transforming and visualizing your data with the help of machine learning, AI, and BI.
- Create a unified experience for developing end-to-end analytics solutions that reduces project development time.
- Secure your data with advanced security and privacy features such as column- and row-level security and dynamic data masking.
- Fabric Data Warehouse represents a bold, modern evolution in data warehousing, purpose-built for the demands of the 2020s, delivering a solution that’s both innovative and robust.
- Break down silos and unify your analytics workflows with an open storage architecture that easily integrates with Power BI, Fabric Data Engineering, and Fabric Data Science workloads, and the rest of Microsoft Fabric.
- Get best-in-class SQL database optimization and resilient infrastructure coupled with industry-leading price performance for enterprise workloads.
- Get powerful, purpose-built migration capabilities to simplify the transition from legacy systems and to accelerate the adoption of Fabric Data Warehouse.
FEATURES
Learn what you can do with Azure Synapse Analytics
Take your analytics further
Gain insights across data warehouses, data lakes, operational databases, and big data analytics systems.
Trim development time and share data more easily
Apply machine learning models to your intelligent apps without any data movement and share data with just a few clicks.
Unify the analytics workspace
Enable data engineers, database administrators, data scientists, and business analysts to use the same analytic service.
Move data for faster insights
Get near-real-time insights by easily moving data between operational databases and business applications.
Secure your data
Keep your data safe with advanced security and privacy features such as automated threat detection and always-on encryption.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Flexible consumption-based pricing
Take advantage of the Azure Synapse Analytics pay-as-you-go pricing model.
RESOURCES
Migrate from Synapse dedicated pools to Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
Access these resources to learn how to migrate to Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
- A data warehouse is a centralized repository that holds structured data (database tables, Excel sheets) and semi-structured data (XML files, webpages) for the purposes of reporting, analysis, and other forms of business intelligence. Learn more about data warehouses.
- Azure Synapse is available in most regions worldwide—see the Azure products by region page for the latest details.
- Find the Azure Synapse technical community on “Microsoft Q&A”—the home for Azure Synapse technical questions and answers.
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