Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a fully managed cloud data warehouse for enterprises of any size that combines lightning-fast query performance with industry-leading data security, enables you to unlock new insights from your data. Optimize workloads by elastically scaling your resources in minutes. Get unlimited storage, automated administration and built-in auditing and threat detection. Integrate seamlessly with Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Databricks and Microsoft Power BI to provide a single holistic modern data warehouse solution for all your analytical workloads.
Analytical Models
Azure Analysis Services is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) that provides enterprise-grade data models in the cloud. Use advanced mashup and modeling features to combine data from multiple data sources, define metrics, and secure your data in a single, trusted tabular semantic data model. The data model provides an easier and faster way for users to browse massive amounts of data for ad hoc data analysis.
Real-Time Analytics
Azure Stream Analytics. Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics is a serverless scalable complex event processing engine by Microsoft that enables users to develop and run real-time analytics on multiple streams of data from sources such as devices, sensors, web sites, social media, and other applications.
Self-service BI
Self-service business intelligence (BI) is an approach to data analytics that enables business users to access and work with corporate data even if they do not have a background in statistical analysis, BI or data mining. Self-service BI tools allow users to filter, sort, analyze and visualize data without involving the organization’s BI and IT teams.
We always position self-service BI as addition to existing corporate analytical models under the same governance. With this approach you enable end users to integrate their ideas, thoughts into the overall analytical solution. All with the purpose how to be better.