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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)

Final words

Azure Synapse brings the worlds of enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics together into a unified experience that helps you accelerate your time to get insights. The cloud model for modern data warehouses is not only flexible and scalable, but it is also cost-effective due to its unique elastic properties. Analytics workloads are one scenario where the elasticity truly shines.

With Azure Synapse, data professionals of varying skill sets can collaborate, manage, and analyze their most important data with ease, all within the same service. From Apache Spark integration, with the powerful and trusted SQL engine, to code-free data integration and management, Azure Synapse is built for every data professional.

Now that you have reached the end of this book, you are armed with the knowledge of the services and tools you need to build your own complete data analytics solution on Azure. The best way to begin is to start small, by integrating some of the technologies...