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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics
7.5 /10

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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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.

78 Likeliness to Recommend

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83 Plan to Renew

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75 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

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.

+84 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?

9% Negative
6% Neutral
85% Positive

Pros

  • Security Protects
  • Efficient Service
  • Respectful
  • Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 78

Data Security

82

Analytics and Reporting

79

Workload Management and Monitoring

79

Data Integration

79

Platform Administration

79

Data Management

79

Distributed Processing

78

Real Time Capabilities

77

Analytics and Data Science Tools

77

Metadata Management

77

Data Visualization

75

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 74

Ease of Data Integration

78

Vendor Support

77

Business Value Created

76

Ease of IT Administration

75

Breadth of Features

74

Usability and Intuitiveness

74

Availability and Quality of Training

74

Ease of Implementation

74

Quality of Features

74

Ease of Customization

73

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

70

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Reviews

Joshua R.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Entertainment
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

Simply put, product disappointed

Likeliness to Recommend

2 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics from other similar products?

It's not as good as other new age DWH+ competitors

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

They tied to have cutting edge features at the time, but did not work as expected (materialized views for example)

What do you dislike most about this product?

Buggy and expensive, did not live up to the promises made by Microsoft.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Try Snowflake or Databricks instead.

Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Fair

Cons

  • Less Reliable
  • Less Performance Enhancing
  • Less Productive

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

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