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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)

Azure Synapse Analytics to the rescue

Azure Synapse Analytics solves the aforementioned problems. As shown in Figure 2.1, Azure Synapse Analytics allows customers to build end-to-end analytics solutions and perform data ingestion, data exploration, data warehousing, big data analytics, and machine learning tasks from a single, unified environment:

Azure Synapse Analytics

Figure 2.1: Azure Synapse Analytics

Some of the core features offered by Azure Synapse Analytics are listed in Table 2.1:

Features and benefits by Azure SynapseAnalytics

Table 2.1: Features and benefits of Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics can derive and deliver insights from all the data lying in your data warehouse and big data analytics systems at lightning-fast speeds. It enables data professionals to use familiar SQL language to query both relational and non-relational databases at petabyte scale. Advanced features such as intelligent workload management, workload isolation, and limitless concurrency help optimize...