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Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By : Has Altaiar, Jack Lee, Michael Peña
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Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By: Has Altaiar, Jack Lee, Michael Peña

Overview of this book

Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure serves as a comprehensive guide for big data analysis and processing using a range of Microsoft Azure features. This book covers everything you need to build your own data warehouse and learn numerous techniques to gain useful insights by analyzing big data. The book begins by introducing you to the power of data with big data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, artificial intelligence, and DataOps. You will learn about cloud-scale analytics and the services Microsoft Azure offers to empower businesses to discover insights. You will also be introduced to the new features and functionalities added to the modern data warehouse. Finally, you will look at two real-world business use cases to demonstrate high-level solutions using Microsoft Azure. The aim of these use cases will be to illustrate how real-time data can be analyzed in Azure to derive meaningful insights and make business decisions. You will learn to build an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud with machine learning and deep learning concepts. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in analyzing large amounts of data with Azure and using it effectively to benefit your organization.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

What is Azure Synapse Analytics?

Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate business intelligence and machine learning needs. In a nutshell, Azure Synapse Analytics is the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Microsoft has taken the industry-leading data warehouse to a new level of performance and capability.

Azure Synapse Analytics gives you the freedom to choose whether to use dedicated or serverless resources to explore and analyze your data at scale based on your business requirements. Businesses can put their data to work much more quickly, productively, and securely, pulling together insights from many data sources, data warehouses, and big data analytics systems.

With Azure Synapse Analytics, data professionals of all types can collaborate, manage, and analyze their most important data efficiently...