Microsoft Azure Data Factory
What is Microsoft Azure Data Factory?
Azure Data Factory is Azure's cloud ETL service for scale-out serverless data integration and data transformation. It offers a code-free UI for intuitive authoring and single-pane-of-glass monitoring and management. Data Factory provides a data integration and transformation layer that works across your digital transformation initiatives.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Reliable
- Efficient Service
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Microsoft Azure Data Factory Reviews
Nitin S.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2023
Great cloud service for data integration
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?
Azure Data Factory is a cloud service for data integration management that collects and links diverse data. In addition, it can be linked to various systems to automate multiple information extraction processes required for data analysis. It can also be used for data integration, such as ETL and ELT. Azure Data Factory allows linking and using fragmented data through the development of ICT, accelerating the diversification of systems used in the enterprise from on-premises to the cloud. This platform makes business more efficient and convenient, as data is accumulated, analyzed, and used efficiently, i.e., centrally managed.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It can be linked to various systems to automate multiple information extraction processes required for data analysis. It can also be used for data integration, such as ETL and ELT. Azure Data Factory allows linking and using fragmented data through the development of ICT, accelerating the diversification of systems used in the enterprise from on-premises to the cloud. This platform makes business more efficient and convenient, as data is accumulated, analyzed, and used efficiently, i.e., centrally managed.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The price is slightly on higher side
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If price is not an issue you can go for it
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Effective Service
- Saves Time
- Respectful
Cons
- Commodity Features
Baratam V.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2023
To keep your data clean this will be awesome one!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?
Great UI which will navigate the user easily around options. Templates available for more business scenarios for creating data flows. Ease use of data security and user security. Better licensing plan and pay as you go option
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Copy data option and moving on-premises data to SQL server vice versa.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing I could find out as of now but if azure can more trial time and credits for starters to test or play around more
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are dealing more data like blob data or any other. Consider this product which give you options to maintain your data clean and move easily between on-premises to cloud.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Anish Kumar D.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2023
A niche usefull product from Microsoft
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?
There are many similar products from different cloud vendors, but Azure Data Factory stood out to us as we have a heavy Azure infra skilled resources and easy to integrate with other servies inside Azure.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Data wrangling, mapping and transformation are the most interesting features along with its ability to serve multiple platforms ranging from Azure native, on-prem and other CSP and openstack cloud on colo facilities.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Most of the solution is implemented with expectation of use of Azure as the core environement, there will be some extra tasks that need to be performed for integration with other CSP.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Before planning a long term solution for this, run though your Dev, test and POC for a extended period. In those period try using other CSP also before taking any decision.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
