We are from the software development wing where we basically program different products of Microsoft and then deliver the solution. We work with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. As a consultant and partner of Microsoft, not as a user, we were building data warehouses and integrated data warehouse on Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics.
Sr. Technical Architect at Hexaware Technologies Limited
Real User
Top 5
Sep 10, 2025
I have been working in the data engineering field for some time now, specifically in relation to Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. In my organization, Hexaware, we deploy multiple ETL pipelines using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics for our clients. When building the ETL pipeline with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, it helps make the build process much easier.
Director Information Technology Services at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
May 16, 2025
My use case for Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is because it's embedded in the Azure Cloud, and as a consequence, if you decide to work with Azure Cloud as my company does, this is the best choice because it's fully integrated with all the Azure Cloud tools.
In my organization, different people utilize Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics in various ways. Personally, I am assisting others but have not engaged much in deep analysis with it.
We run our finance and supply chain jobs using SQL BW, and we visualize our data loads on Power BI. We are using SQL Data Warehouse for data warehousing.
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I use the solution in my company for graphs. We need graphs for some resources on Office 365. We also do a lot of stuff with other applications, specifically third-party applications. In Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, we use pipelines to manage the data from third-party applications.
Infrastructure Architect at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Apr 26, 2023
We have implemented it for two solutions - data warehousing and BI Synapse (Business Intelligence). We also use it for merchandising, where based on our booking patterns, Synapse is used to analyze and target customers with more products. We use it for virtualizing, and BI is for analyzing business strategies.
We primarily use it for data transformation purposes, as well as for storing data. Additionally, we use it to connect to Power BI for reporting purposes.
Data Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Mar 1, 2023
We are using the solution to process a large volume of data. We are taking advantage of the MTPP functionality feature in Azure Synapse Analytics and connecting our reporting dashboard to its dedicated support tool. These are the two primary use cases we are currently leveraging.
Senior Data Engineer at a tech company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Jan 23, 2023
We use this solution to create data pipelines and to improve the self-service environment for end users. We use all the functions of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics.
We are using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics with multiple customers for data integration, data migration, and data analytics. I offer these services to my customers as part of my service organization called Edge Technologies. Customers use the solution for analytics, such as forecasting reports. There are a lot of business cases, we customized them based on the customer.
Head of Business Integration and Architecture at Jakala
Real User
Oct 21, 2022
We are a marketing company so we help our customers with marketing strategies. The marketing is based on the final customers, and we use Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics for CDP.
Our primary use case for Azure Synapse is as a data warehouse, for creation of data pipelines. It allows login into to one central workspace, manage our databases, and the entire warehouse. We can embed business intelligence (BI), using Power BI. This allows us to show visualizations all in one central place.
Senior Database Administrator at Summa Health System
Real User
Mar 30, 2022
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics differs from the old traditional on-premise business intelligence operations, where it's set up to do real-time analytics. For example, with IoT devices. Instead of having patients come to the hospital and do their operations, the hospitals will give patients an IoT device and you can monitor the patients in real-time using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. The point of the solution is to integrate the business into the analytics or vice versa. In the hospital example above, traditionally analytics is to tell us what happened. We look at reports to see what has happened. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics puts us more on the spot by telling us what's going to happen. Rather than what did just happen.
Director of Systems of the TCESP at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Mar 3, 2022
We are using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to find some evidence or outlier in our analysis about the application of the public health service and public money in the sector in Brazil. We are a public institution that is responsible for auditing other public institutions. We use these kinds of tools to find some evidence and outliers to audit with a little bit more documents or evidence.
BI Development & Validation Manager at JT International SA
Real User
Feb 3, 2022
We use this solution as a data warehouse. Power BI allows us to visualize the data while analyzing data from the data lake through Serverless. We have not used too much of the pipelines within the Data Factory because we have an isolated Data Factory for that.
Senior Systems Analyst at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
Real User
Aug 17, 2021
We have been using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics as our proof of concept in our data warehouse. As for the analytics part, we have not used it because we do not have any SQL pools. We think it is a bit more than we need because our data is not implicated and the data sets are not very large. It is mostly been used for the detection functions and to link up the sources.
The healthcare sector is looking for how to accomplish certain processes because currently a lot of it is pure logistics. The goal is to announce and to make processes more transparent and see if they can be made more efficient. This is where business analytics comes in. The organization is using different kinds of information sources, such as electronic client dossiers or HR systems. They will see what kind of knowledge is required, how the patient or the clients are experiencing what quality of health, and create dashboards to see how the organization is doing. This will show which areas they can improve and which areas are already more efficient to make them more visible. This should allow a better understanding from the management, organization, and healthcare professional.
Enterprise architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Mar 11, 2021
We're using this solution for analytics and its modeling capabilities. It allows you to have your visualization on top of your synapse analytics. We are partners with Microsoft.
Co-owner, Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Real User
Feb 23, 2021
It is for business intelligence. We are gathering all the data from legacy systems and transforming the data. We are then pushing the data back towards Power BI.
Managing Director at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Real User
Jan 28, 2021
We are using it internally and afterward some of the outcomes are made public, either to customers or in different projects. It's mainly for preparing internal documents when we use Word. Otherwise, we use it for externally or for a lot of PowerPoint and Excel for budget purposes. Being a small company, we don't need a very sophisticated software solution, so with an Excel spreadsheet, we can handle the different budget of different projects simultaneously.
I work with Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI, and Premier as a data administrator, using Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure. Azure Synapse Analytics is the principal data administration tool for our internal data warehousing, but we also use it for our customers' data warehousing and analytics in different industries. For data entry, we use Microsoft Power BI. Internally, we have about 200 personnel currently using Azure Synapse Analytics, including data specialists, service managers, and other tech workers. It is not extensively used by all, however, because we don't often use it for very large amounts of data, except where financial data is involved.
Senior Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
MSP
Dec 28, 2020
I work for a consulting firm, with many different use cases. Synapse DW is for traditional data warehousing with a large amount of volume, that requires you to do reporting. In terms of Synapse Analytics, I haven't put it in yet, but I'm looking at it for kind of one-stop-shop or Swiss Army Knife type projects. They've been asking for a factory or creating something that connects to the cosmos to turn it into analytics reportings, just sort of needless connecting and just making it easy from a developer standpoint to deliver on any sort of business analytics that needs to be done.
Data Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Nov 26, 2020
We are mainly using this solution as an interface between the Data Lake and the users. We are consultants and this product assists with the services that we offer for our clients. Our company has a large number of consultants who are working in this space.
Co Founder & CTO at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees
Real User
Oct 19, 2020
Our primary use case is for gathering data and analytics. We provide insights into vehicle data. We gather millions of records per second and we have various millions of vehicles running across.
Information Architect at a analyst firm with 201-500 employees
Real User
Sep 13, 2020
I am a consultant, and when I go on-site, it's to determine how they can move to the cloud. Often, clients want to migrate because everyone else is. Others want to because they assume that they are going to save money. They will require less support staff in-house and they won't have to purchase servers. Customers have a need to cut back on expenses, and equipment. Their servers are becoming obsolete and are required to update their licensing. Rather than doing that and creating a larger overhead, they look into Microsoft Azure. It might be a better way to go and it's less money upfront. Some clients have already implemented VMs. A lot of their data is stored that way. There is a difference when you move that to the cloud. If you share it back and forth, you have your hybrid where you have it in the cloud and on-premises. It depends on the company and what their plans are. There is an automated tool that you can analyze your data sources and identify whether or not you can upgrade them and you can also use it for SharePoint. I've used Azure for that purpose. In regards to data warehouses, I'm doing the upgrades from on-prem to in the cloud, or a combination of both.
We are service providers for our clients. My clients primarily come from the enterprise segments, such as manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical, and industrial. Most are supported by a large ERP solution like SAP. Some of our clients are mid-size and others are large enterprise companies, some of the largest in India.
Sr. Teradata Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Consultant
Jul 29, 2020
We primarily use the solution for analytic purposes. It allows us to store data for years and then go back and look up information to learn things like how users function, react, follow trends, etc. It allows us to follow past and recent demands for products as well so that we might be able to find the reasoning behind the action or trend.
Analytics Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Dec 15, 2019
We are developing our SQL Data Warehouse locally, using SQL Server 2016 on our private cloud, and we will be migrating it to Azure once it is ready. The company for which I am working deals with products in the leisure industry, such as museums and swimming pools. They use the data warehouse solution for big data reporting. Currently, we are developing a multi-platform data warehouse that can support the reporting requirements for all of the customers. Whatever analytics they want to perform will be done with the data warehouse, and not the SQL database application. My role is to design the data warehouse, and once that is complete, we need to build the data pipelines so that the data can be moved from the application databases into the warehouse. Then we will design the OLAP servers and OLAP cubes, vertically, to give us a presentation layer on top of the data warehouse. This layer is what the customers will be using.
We are a software development company and this is one of the solutions that we recommend to our clients. The applications that we develop make use of this technology.
We are a solution provider and we provide different tools for our clients. Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse is one of the solutions that we have implemented. The use cases vary depending on the client. We have a couple of clients who are moving their data from on-premises to Azure databases, and they are using this solution primarily for reporting analytics. They also use visualization tools on top of the reporting.
Data Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Nov 13, 2019
Our general use of this solution has to do with the needs of one of our clients. They had an SQL server and they were migrating from an on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL server on the cloud. We use this solution because it fits their budget and they have some clients in other countries they want to give access to the product through Power BI.
EMEA IT Program Manager for Sales, Marketing & eCommerce at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jul 28, 2019
We use this solution for data warehousing. Specifically, we have an ERP that does not have a direct connection to our Power BI solution. This connection will exist in the future, but in the meantime, we use an ETL process to transport data out of the ERP into Azure SQL, and then from Azure SQL into Power BI. At that point, we can use the dashboard to display our information. Our environment is a private cloud.
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is an end-to-end analytics solution that successfully combines analytical services to merge big data analytics and enterprise data warehouses into a single unified platform. The solution can run intelligent distributed queries among nodes, and provides the ability to query both relational and non-relational data.
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is built with these 4 components:
Synapse SQL
Spark
Synapse Pipeline
Studio
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics...
We are from the software development wing where we basically program different products of Microsoft and then deliver the solution. We work with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. As a consultant and partner of Microsoft, not as a user, we were building data warehouses and integrated data warehouse on Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics.
I have been working in the data engineering field for some time now, specifically in relation to Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. In my organization, Hexaware, we deploy multiple ETL pipelines using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics for our clients. When building the ETL pipeline with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, it helps make the build process much easier.
My use case for Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is because it's embedded in the Azure Cloud, and as a consequence, if you decide to work with Azure Cloud as my company does, this is the best choice because it's fully integrated with all the Azure Cloud tools.
In my organization, different people utilize Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics in various ways. Personally, I am assisting others but have not engaged much in deep analysis with it.
I primarily use Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics for data pipelining.
We run our finance and supply chain jobs using SQL BW, and we visualize our data loads on Power BI. We are using SQL Data Warehouse for data warehousing.
We are ingesting data from different sources and using Power BI for reporting and decision-making for analytics.
I use the solution in my company for graphs. We need graphs for some resources on Office 365. We also do a lot of stuff with other applications, specifically third-party applications. In Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, we use pipelines to manage the data from third-party applications.
We use the solution for data storage.
It can be used for reducing hardware expenses.
I mainly use it to run queries, deploy servers, and make connections across data. I help clients with data warehousing and analytics.
I use this solution for client service forecasting. I work with medium-sized businesses, and I work through a virtual machine.
We use it for reporting purposes and for building data warehouses, pipelines, and data lakes for IoT projects.
We have implemented it for two solutions - data warehousing and BI Synapse (Business Intelligence). We also use it for merchandising, where based on our booking patterns, Synapse is used to analyze and target customers with more products. We use it for virtualizing, and BI is for analyzing business strategies.
It's used for business case analysis and bandwidth utilization, etc. We are using its latest version.
We primarily use it for data transformation purposes, as well as for storing data. Additionally, we use it to connect to Power BI for reporting purposes.
We are using the solution to process a large volume of data. We are taking advantage of the MTPP functionality feature in Azure Synapse Analytics and connecting our reporting dashboard to its dedicated support tool. These are the two primary use cases we are currently leveraging.
We use this solution to create data pipelines and to improve the self-service environment for end users. We use all the functions of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics.
We are using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics with multiple customers for data integration, data migration, and data analytics. I offer these services to my customers as part of my service organization called Edge Technologies. Customers use the solution for analytics, such as forecasting reports. There are a lot of business cases, we customized them based on the customer.
We are a marketing company so we help our customers with marketing strategies. The marketing is based on the final customers, and we use Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics for CDP.
We primarily use the solution for our cloud data warehouse.
Dealing with big data is the primary use case.
We use this solution to analyze big data. We collect data from different sources then we analyze that data with Synapse.
I mainly use Synapse Analytics to gather data, do aggregations, and generate reports.
Our primary use case for Azure Synapse is as a data warehouse, for creation of data pipelines. It allows login into to one central workspace, manage our databases, and the entire warehouse. We can embed business intelligence (BI), using Power BI. This allows us to show visualizations all in one central place.
@MandarGarge What was the reason you chose Synapse over using a version of SQL Server (on-prem, managed instance, Azure SQL DB)?
I'm a senior consultant.
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics differs from the old traditional on-premise business intelligence operations, where it's set up to do real-time analytics. For example, with IoT devices. Instead of having patients come to the hospital and do their operations, the hospitals will give patients an IoT device and you can monitor the patients in real-time using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. The point of the solution is to integrate the business into the analytics or vice versa. In the hospital example above, traditionally analytics is to tell us what happened. We look at reports to see what has happened. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics puts us more on the spot by telling us what's going to happen. Rather than what did just happen.
We are using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to find some evidence or outlier in our analysis about the application of the public health service and public money in the sector in Brazil. We are a public institution that is responsible for auditing other public institutions. We use these kinds of tools to find some evidence and outliers to audit with a little bit more documents or evidence.
We use this solution as a data warehouse. Power BI allows us to visualize the data while analyzing data from the data lake through Serverless. We have not used too much of the pipelines within the Data Factory because we have an isolated Data Factory for that.
@PedroNavarro What was the reason you chose Synapse over using a version of SQL Server (on-prem, managed instance, Azure SQL DB)?
I am the Associate Director of a company that is a partner of Synapse.
It is useful for Azure services. I am using its latest version.
My primary use case of this solution is as a data warehouse.
@Slawomir Zablocki What was the reason you chose Synapse over using a version of SQL Server (on-prem, managed instance, Azure SQL DB)?
Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics can be used for analytics and brings together data integration.
We have implemented our data warehouse on Synapse.
We have been using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics as our proof of concept in our data warehouse. As for the analytics part, we have not used it because we do not have any SQL pools. We think it is a bit more than we need because our data is not implicated and the data sets are not very large. It is mostly been used for the detection functions and to link up the sources.
The healthcare sector is looking for how to accomplish certain processes because currently a lot of it is pure logistics. The goal is to announce and to make processes more transparent and see if they can be made more efficient. This is where business analytics comes in. The organization is using different kinds of information sources, such as electronic client dossiers or HR systems. They will see what kind of knowledge is required, how the patient or the clients are experiencing what quality of health, and create dashboards to see how the organization is doing. This will show which areas they can improve and which areas are already more efficient to make them more visible. This should allow a better understanding from the management, organization, and healthcare professional.
We're using this solution for analytics and its modeling capabilities. It allows you to have your visualization on top of your synapse analytics. We are partners with Microsoft.
It is for business intelligence. We are gathering all the data from legacy systems and transforming the data. We are then pushing the data back towards Power BI.
We're using this solution for general data integration. We are customers of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and I'm a data specialist.
We are using it internally and afterward some of the outcomes are made public, either to customers or in different projects. It's mainly for preparing internal documents when we use Word. Otherwise, we use it for externally or for a lot of PowerPoint and Excel for budget purposes. Being a small company, we don't need a very sophisticated software solution, so with an Excel spreadsheet, we can handle the different budget of different projects simultaneously.
We use the solution on our servers for analytics.
We are an IT service provider. We develop solutions for our clients and this solution is used in some aspects of that.
I work with Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI, and Premier as a data administrator, using Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure. Azure Synapse Analytics is the principal data administration tool for our internal data warehousing, but we also use it for our customers' data warehousing and analytics in different industries. For data entry, we use Microsoft Power BI. Internally, we have about 200 personnel currently using Azure Synapse Analytics, including data specialists, service managers, and other tech workers. It is not extensively used by all, however, because we don't often use it for very large amounts of data, except where financial data is involved.
I work for a consulting firm, with many different use cases. Synapse DW is for traditional data warehousing with a large amount of volume, that requires you to do reporting. In terms of Synapse Analytics, I haven't put it in yet, but I'm looking at it for kind of one-stop-shop or Swiss Army Knife type projects. They've been asking for a factory or creating something that connects to the cosmos to turn it into analytics reportings, just sort of needless connecting and just making it easy from a developer standpoint to deliver on any sort of business analytics that needs to be done.
Our primary use case is to process data and provide it to our clients.
We are using this solution for data warehousing and analytics.
We are using this product data warehousing and analytics.
We are mainly using this solution as an interface between the Data Lake and the users. We are consultants and this product assists with the services that we offer for our clients. Our company has a large number of consultants who are working in this space.
Our general use case is for government purposes, and therefore, I really can't get into too much detail about it.
Our primary use case is for gathering data and analytics. We provide insights into vehicle data. We gather millions of records per second and we have various millions of vehicles running across.
I used it for a project thesis for my school project.
I am a consultant, and when I go on-site, it's to determine how they can move to the cloud. Often, clients want to migrate because everyone else is. Others want to because they assume that they are going to save money. They will require less support staff in-house and they won't have to purchase servers. Customers have a need to cut back on expenses, and equipment. Their servers are becoming obsolete and are required to update their licensing. Rather than doing that and creating a larger overhead, they look into Microsoft Azure. It might be a better way to go and it's less money upfront. Some clients have already implemented VMs. A lot of their data is stored that way. There is a difference when you move that to the cloud. If you share it back and forth, you have your hybrid where you have it in the cloud and on-premises. It depends on the company and what their plans are. There is an automated tool that you can analyze your data sources and identify whether or not you can upgrade them and you can also use it for SharePoint. I've used Azure for that purpose. In regards to data warehouses, I'm doing the upgrades from on-prem to in the cloud, or a combination of both.
We are service providers for our clients. My clients primarily come from the enterprise segments, such as manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical, and industrial. Most are supported by a large ERP solution like SAP. Some of our clients are mid-size and others are large enterprise companies, some of the largest in India.
There are around 10 people using this solution within our organization and we have plans to increase the usage.
The primary use case is for the fast retrieval of data, which is in the data warehouse on-premises and migrating it to the cloud.
We primarily use the solution for analytic purposes. It allows us to store data for years and then go back and look up information to learn things like how users function, react, follow trends, etc. It allows us to follow past and recent demands for products as well so that we might be able to find the reasoning behind the action or trend.
We are a consulting agency and the Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse is what we use for general BI reporting and visualization.
We primarily use this solution for source analytics and procurement.
We are developing our SQL Data Warehouse locally, using SQL Server 2016 on our private cloud, and we will be migrating it to Azure once it is ready. The company for which I am working deals with products in the leisure industry, such as museums and swimming pools. They use the data warehouse solution for big data reporting. Currently, we are developing a multi-platform data warehouse that can support the reporting requirements for all of the customers. Whatever analytics they want to perform will be done with the data warehouse, and not the SQL database application. My role is to design the data warehouse, and once that is complete, we need to build the data pipelines so that the data can be moved from the application databases into the warehouse. Then we will design the OLAP servers and OLAP cubes, vertically, to give us a presentation layer on top of the data warehouse. This layer is what the customers will be using.
We are a software development company and this is one of the solutions that we recommend to our clients. The applications that we develop make use of this technology.
We are a solution provider and we provide different tools for our clients. Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse is one of the solutions that we have implemented. The use cases vary depending on the client. We have a couple of clients who are moving their data from on-premises to Azure databases, and they are using this solution primarily for reporting analytics. They also use visualization tools on top of the reporting.
This is a data warehousing solution.
Our general use of this solution has to do with the needs of one of our clients. They had an SQL server and they were migrating from an on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL server on the cloud. We use this solution because it fits their budget and they have some clients in other countries they want to give access to the product through Power BI.
We use the private deployment model of this solution.
We use this solution for data warehousing. Specifically, we have an ERP that does not have a direct connection to our Power BI solution. This connection will exist in the future, but in the meantime, we use an ETL process to transport data out of the ERP into Azure SQL, and then from Azure SQL into Power BI. At that point, we can use the dashboard to display our information. Our environment is a private cloud.