{"id":11899,"date":"2020-07-20T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/?p=11899"},"modified":"2025-07-07T07:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:10:59","slug":"azure-synapse-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/blog\/azure-synapse-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure Synapse Link \u2013 Putting Customers\u2019 Data to Work More Quickly, and Securely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s a no-brainer that data is one of the key drivers of business strategy and projection. Businesses glean insights from their data to gain a sustainable competitive edge and fuel innovation for creating a business impact. According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/documents\/3891603\/the-future-of-data-and-analytics-tales-and-trends-from-t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gartner<\/a>, by 2022, 90% of corporate strategies will explicitly mention data as a critical enterprise asset and analytics as an essential competency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, weak data maintenance and siloed data management applications, on-premises, can negatively impact business performance. In my perspective, businesses typically have two categories of analytical systems that run independently of each other and often lead to uninformed business decisions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Data warehouses:&nbsp;<\/strong>Designed for data analytics performance, these are managed petabyte-scale services with controls to manage compute and storage independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Data lakes:&nbsp;<\/strong>Composed of data storage and data analytics, this is a highly scalable public cloud service that empowers Microsoft customers to distill insight from large, complexdatasets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To bridge the gap, Microsoft rolled out a single cloud analytics service \u2013&nbsp;Azure Synapse Analytics&nbsp;and Azure Synapse Link- that make the businesses agile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Azure Synapse Link<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft recently launched Azure Synapse Link. Available in Azure Cosmos DB, it\u2019s a cloud-native implementation of hybrid transaction\/analytical processing (HTAP). It will soon be available in other operational database services such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"blog-detail-list wp-block-list\">\n<li>Azure SQL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Azure Database for PostgreSQL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Azure Database for MySQL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Azure Synapse Link eliminates the barriers and tightly integrates Azure operational database services and Azure Synapse Analytics. It facilitates no Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) analytics in Azure Synapse Analytics against your operational data at scale.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Azure-Synapse-Link-img.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11900\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cosmos-db\/synapse-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azure Synapse Link offers several advantages over traditional ETL-based solutions such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Reduced complexity:<\/strong>&nbsp;It empowers you to directly access Azure Cosmos DB analytical store without going through the complexity of data movement. Any small update made to the operational data is visible in the analytical store in near real-time without ETL or change feed jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Real-time actionable intelligence<\/strong>: Access real-time insights on your operational data with Azure Synapse Link. With many layers to cull, convert and load the operational data, ETL-based systems often have higher latency for operational data analysis to uncover new business scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Cost effectiveness:<\/strong>&nbsp;You can get a wholly managed solution for operational analytics at competitive prices. It removesthe extra layers of storage and calculates traditional ETL pipelines for operational data analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4. Optimized for heavy analytics workloads:&nbsp;<\/strong>The analytical store is optimized to offer scalability, simplicity, and performance for analytical workloads with no dependency on the run-times computation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand Azure Synapse Link a bit more, please watch this video on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=7&amp;v=yd8vynwA36A&amp;feature=emb_logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure Synapse Link.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s Unique About Azure Synapse Analytics?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In what\u2019s being touted as the post-COVID era, I feel it\u2019s the top priority of businesses to attain maximum agility in gleaning insights from transactional data in their operational databases to be able to make quicker and more informed business decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I strongly recommend Azure Synapse Analytics as a viable solution to accomplish this feat from the performance and secure experience point of view. Unveiled in November last year, it\u2019s predicted as a game changer in the industry and serves dual purposes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong>&nbsp;It closes the gap between enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics to empower teams to collaborate, create and manage their analytics solutions efficiently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong>&nbsp;It supports hybrid transactional analytical processing (HTAP) workloads that otherwise is expensive and seemingly complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its cloud-native architecture is unique. On clicking within the Azure database service, a direct data link is established with Azure Synapse Analytics, which then activates the operational data. No complex database compute resources are needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azure Synapse Analytics enables customers to get insights from their real-time transactional data stored in their operational databases with a single click, with a faster approach. It brings together relational and non-relational data in the data lake with a simple SQL query. This can help optimize the performance of all queries with smart workload isolation, workload management, and a truly limitless concurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s specifically designed to support the ever-evolving DevOps strategy that needs the operations and development team to collaborate and create and implement services that work more effectively throughout their life cycles. These features were clearly missing in Azure Data Warehouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics has an edge over the other last product for it enables the businesses to leverage game-changing technologies such as artificial intelligence and data analytics to comprehend the weather conditions better, handle tasks more efficiently and search engines better interpret users\u2019 goals.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/3-2.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11901\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Source \u2013 Microsoft<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azure Synapse Analytics, a combination of Azure Data Factory with Azure SQL Data Warehouse, allows the freedom to the user to query data on the desired terms leveraging either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale. Though it doesn\u2019t combinePower business intelligence (BI)or Azure Machine Learning into the same service directly, it does provide a unified experience to prepare, process, manage and serve data for actionable BI and machine learning requirements, at user interface levels, so the flow is natural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It allows you to apply intelligence to your important data efficiently \u2013 from Office 365, Dynamics 365 to SaaS service supporting Open Data Initiative. It also helps effortlessly share that data. View our on-demand session on&nbsp;Azure Synapse Analytics&nbsp;to learn how it brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To leverage this new, well-designed Azure Synapse Link and Synapse Analytics for limitless analytics,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">talk to us now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a no-brainer that data is one of the key drivers of business strategy and projection. Businesses glean insights from their data to gain a sustainable competitive edge and fuel innovation for creating a business impact. According to&nbsp;Gartner, by 2022, 90% of corporate strategies will explicitly mention data as a critical enterprise asset and analytics&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/blog\/azure-synapse-link\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Azure Synapse Link \u2013 Putting Customers\u2019 Data to Work More Quickly, and Securely<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":16502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Azure-Synapse-Link.webp","author_info":{"display_name":"Vineet","author_link":"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/author\/vineet\/"},"views":4326,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Azure-Synapse-Link.webp",800,440,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Azure-Synapse-Link-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Azure-Synapse-Link-300x165.webp",300,165,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Azure-Synapse-Link-768x422.webp",750,412,true],"large":["https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Azure-Synapse-Link.webp",750,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Azure-Synapse-Link.webp",800,440,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Azure-Synapse-Link.webp",800,440,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Azure-Synapse-Link.webp",800,440,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Vineet","author_link":"https:\/\/viewmyprojects.com\/winwirewp\/author\/vineet\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"It\u2019s a no-brainer that data is one of the key drivers of business strategy and projection. 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