Microsoft Corporation

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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0 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

0 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2023

1 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2022

2020 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2020

2019 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2019

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Ratings

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77 Likeliness to Recommend

80 Plan to Renew

75 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+82 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?

10% Negative

7% Neutral

83% Positive

Pros

Security Protects
Efficient Service
Respectful
Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 77

Data Security

Data Visualization

Analytics and Reporting

Workload Management and Monitoring

Data Integration

Distributed Processing

Platform Administration

Data Management

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Real Time Capabilities

Metadata Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 74

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Reviews

Aditya J.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

Good product for data analytics needs!

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics from other similar products?

Cost effective data analytics platform.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy to implement and manageable platform

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing as such , this tool meets all the required business expectations.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Good tool if you are considering a all in one data analytics platoform

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

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

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

What is Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

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Awards & Recognition

2020 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2019 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Ratings

77 Likeliness to Recommend

80 Plan to Renew

75 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+82 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Data Visualization Thematic visualization with the ability to change views, including color, pattern/icon, dot-density, chart, scaled-symbol, and 3D prism themes

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Workload Management and Monitoring Includes task, performance, monitoring and time management

Data Integration Includes integration of data from multiple sources, merging systems, transforming data and capture data to form a unified view of a company's data assets

Distributed Processing Data storage and processing is shared among many physical or virtual independents servers or sites for high volume data with seamless access to large datasets.

Platform Administration Includes back-end interface and administrative capabilities

Data Management Includes data sharing, data storage, records management, and data security.

Analytics and Data Science Tools Includes Analytics and Data science components such as AI, statistical and machine learning libraries

Real Time Capabilities Ability to analytics and visualize data as soon as it becomes available in underline systems.

Metadata Management Easily manage metadata associated with customer data or audience segments.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Reviews

Aditya J.

Good product for data analytics needs!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Joshua R.

Simply put, product disappointed

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Kirtiman C.

Fantastic tool for your data warehousing needs

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Data Security

Data Visualization

Analytics and Reporting

Workload Management and Monitoring

Data Integration

Distributed Processing

Platform Administration

Data Management

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Real Time Capabilities

Metadata Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement