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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

Composite Score

7.8 /10

CX Score

8.0 /10

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What is Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

Azure Synapse is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless or provisioned resources—at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics won the following awards in the Analytical Data Store category

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0 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2024

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2023

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5 Top Rated Features

2022

2020 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2020

2019 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2019

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

80 Likeliness to Recommend

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86 Plan to Renew

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76 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:: 87%
Negotiation and Contract:: 86%
Conflict Resolution:: 89%
Strategy & Innovation:: 85%
Service Experience:: 91%

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+87 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

8% Negative

4% Neutral

88% Positive

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Security Protects
Efficient Service
Respectful
Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 80

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Average 77

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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Reviews

Kirtiman C.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Utilities
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2024

Fantastic tool for your data warehousing needs

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics from other similar products?

Big data and good warehousing capabilities

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Cost and ease of use

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing such but real time analysis would help

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Go for it, awesome tool to manage your workloads

Pros

Reliable
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing

Raghwendra S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2024

Excellent and modern big data platform

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics from other similar products?

Microsoft Azure Synapse is more close to the opensource Big data systems like hadoop , apache spark , yet providing a modern environment for real big data scale with ease of use

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love how well all the big data systems are integrated in a single platform . Also the Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is very fast in adopting the latest releases of apache spark , hadoop , and good at providing bug fixes

What do you dislike most about this product?

I feel the cost is slightly higher , To get more value the cost can be reduced

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you are working in an organisation where ecommerce scale or more big data is generated then microsoft azure synapse analytics is a good choice. Also with the latest open ai llm models, open models , ML platform azure is the best choice for data engineering and data scientists

Pros

Trustworthy
Respectful
Client Friendly Policies
Fair

Ravi K.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Fantastic product!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics from other similar products?

Easy to use, UI and robustness of the product.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Data Factory, ADLS2, Key Valuts, Azure Devops

What do you dislike most about this product?

Cost of the servies

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

not at this momet

Pros

Efficient Service
Effective Service
Caring
Saves Time

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Awards & Recognition

2020 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2019 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Ratings

80 Likeliness to Recommend

Up 3 Since last award

86 Plan to Renew

Up 5 Since last award

76 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Up 1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

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+87 Net Emotional Footprint

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Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Data Integration Includes integration of data from multiple sources, merging systems, transforming data and capture data to form a unified view of a company's data assets

Workload Management and Monitoring Includes task, performance, monitoring and time management

Platform Administration Includes back-end interface and administrative capabilities

Data Management Includes data sharing, data storage, records management, and data security.

Distributed Processing Data storage and processing is shared among many physical or virtual independents servers or sites for high volume data with seamless access to large datasets.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Analytics and Data Science Tools Includes Analytics and Data science components such as AI, statistical and machine learning libraries

Real Time Capabilities Ability to analytics and visualize data as soon as it becomes available in underline systems.

Metadata Management Easily manage metadata associated with customer data or audience segments.

Data Visualization Thematic visualization with the ability to change views, including color, pattern/icon, dot-density, chart, scaled-symbol, and 3D prism themes

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Reviews

Kirtiman C.

Fantastic tool for your data warehousing needs

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Raghwendra S.

Excellent and modern big data platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ravi K.

Fantastic product!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Data Security

Data Integration

Workload Management and Monitoring

Platform Administration

Data Management

Distributed Processing

Analytics and Reporting

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Real Time Capabilities

Metadata Management

Data Visualization

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Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

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Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement