Introduction to Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless or dedicated options—at scale.

Azure Synapse brings these worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, explore, prepare, transform, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.

The volume of data generated by individuals and organizations is growing at a phenomenal rate. This data powers businesses and other organizations by providing a basis for descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytical solutions that support decision making and autonomous systems by providing real-time insights into established and emerging patterns.

Organizations have a choice of many tools and techniques for data analytics, often requiring expertise across multiple systems and complex integration of infrastructure and administrative operations. Azure Synapse Analytics provides a single, cloud-scale platform that supports multiple analytical technologies; enabling a consolidated and integrated experience for data engineers, data analysts, data scientists, and other professionals who need to work with data.

Azure Synapse Analytics provides a cloud platform for  analytical workloads through support for multiple data storage, processing, and analysis technologies in a single, integrated solution. The integrated design of Azure Synapse Analytics enables organizations to leverage investments and skills in multiple commonly used data technologies, including SQL, Apache Spark, and others; while providing a centrally managed service and a single, consistent user interface.