Today, businesses are forced to maintain two types of analytical systems, data warehouses and data lakes. Data warehouses provide critical insights on business health.

1. Understanding Azure Synapse Analytics
Today, businesses are forced to maintain two types of analytical systems, data warehouses and data
lakes. Data warehouses provide critical insights on business health. Data lakes can uncover
important signals on customers, products, employees, and processes. Both are critical, yet operate
independently of one another, which can lead to uninformed decisions. At the same time,
businesses need to unlock insights from all their data to stay competitive and fuel innovation with
purpose. Can a single cloud analytics service bridge this gap and enable the agility that businesses
demand?
Azure Synapse Analytics, 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 on-demand 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
business intelligence and machine learning needs.
Simply put, Azure Synapse is the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. We have taken the
same industry-leading data warehouse to a whole new level of performance and capabilities. In fact,
it’s the first and only analytics system to have run all TPC-H queries at petabyte-scale. Businesses
can continue running their existing data warehouse workloads in production today with Azure
Synapse and will automatically benefit from the new capabilities which are in preview. Businesses
can put their data to work much more quickly, productively, and securely, pulling together insights
from all data sources, data warehouses, and big data analytics systems.
With Azure Synapse, data professionals of all types can collaborate, build, 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.

2. Azure Synapse delivers insights from all your data, across data warehouses and big data analytics
systems, with blazing speed. With Azure Synapse, data professionals can query both relational and
non-relational data at petabyte-scale using the familiar SQL language. For mission-critical
workloads, they can easily optimize the performance of all queries with intelligent workload
management, workload isolation, and limitless concurrency.
Build end-to-end analytics solutions with a unified experience. The Azure Synapse studio provides a
unified workspace for data prep, data management, data warehousing, big data, and AI tasks. Data
engineers can use a code-free visual environment for managing data pipelines. Database
administrators can automate query optimization. Data scientists can build proofs of concept in
minutes. Business analysts can securely access datasets and use Power BI to build dashboards in
minutes, all while using the same analytics service.
Azure has the most advanced security and privacy features in the market. These features are built
into the fabric of Azure Synapse, such as automated threat detection and always-on data
encryption. And for fine-grained access control, businesses can help ensure data stays safe and
private using column-level security and native row-level security, as well as dynamic data masking
to automatically protect sensitive data in real-time.
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