White Papers
Microsoft Azure: The CDO Seat at the Cloud Table
The global data landscape is now more complex than ever. Chief Data Officers (CDOs) across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific have experienced extraordinary opportunities to manage enterprise data assets to fuel data-driven decision-making. However, many grapple with issues created by digital disruption, cybersecurity threats, privacy and compliance, and stakeholder demand for higher levels of…
Read MoreThe Scientist, The Engineer, and The Warehouse
Building the right team for data analytics in the age of cloud. Introduction “I need to hire a data scientist!” We hear this call, urgent and animated, from Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Technical Officers (CTOs) almost every week. We understand. It’s easy to get excited about new technology, especially when it promises a shortcut…
Read MoreEmpower IT and Data Professionals to Achieve More with All Their Data
A guide to migrating existing processes to Azure Synapse Analytics Many companies today have long had analytical data warehouses in place in their data centers to support decision making in different parts of their business. Sales, marketing, and finance departments in particular are heavy users of such systems producing standard reports and dashboards. They also…
Read MoreAboard the analytics train? Machine Learning is Your Next Stop
If your organization is data-driven, business intelligence-savvy and/or into big data analytics, you know the amount of work that goes into setting up the infrastructure, acquiring the skills and building the culture necessary to sustain it. But did you know that investment puts you on the cusp of being an AI-driven organization too? While most…
Read More6 Tips to Integrate Security into Your DevOps Practices
DevOps proven practices illustrate how collaboration between developer and operations teams leads to faster software delivery. Now, the issue facing digital leaders is the security and compliancy of their code, workflows, and infrastructure. The logical next step: integrate your security team with the existing DevOps team—breaking down another organizational silo. The most challenging part of…
Read MoreAzure Sentinel Migration Fundamentals
This white paper is designed to give you an overview of best practices and considerations for transitioning your security operations to Microsoft Azure Sentinel. We’ll look at processes for a direct migration, as well as how to run Azure Sentinel in a side- by-side configuration with your legacy security information and event management (SIEM) solution.…
Read MoreThe View from Customers That Have Taken the Journey with Microsoft Azure
Executive Summary Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation efforts in 2020 and 2021 have accelerated dramatically. This year, 95.5% of enterprises are implementing a digital platform, compared with 91.8% in 2019, according to a July IDC survey. Meanwhile, approaches to digital transformation are diverging. Many companies have retreated from a vision where a single…
Read MoreMigrate to the cloud and track your progress with Azure Migrate
As public cloud computing has matured, more organizations are migrating their existing on-premises data and applications to the cloud. Reasons to migrate include the ability to achieve improved governance, security and cost efficiencies. In the past, migration required a sense of adventure and a pioneering spirit. The process was daunting, and complexity increased dramatically without…
Read MoreThe Power BI Professional’s Guide to Azure Synapse Analytics
This guide introduces Power BI practitioners to Azure Synapse Analytics—a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics. On the surface, Azure Synapse Analytics is Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved. However, it’s much more than just a few new capabilities in an update of SQL Data Warehouse. Azure Synapse represents…
Read MoreZero Trust Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things
In this paper we review the principles of Zero Trust security, and the aspects of IoT that make proactive application of Zero Trust to IoT different than its application to the workforce. The key capabilities of Zero Trust for IoT are defined for companies with an IoT strategy, and next steps highlight Microsoft solutions enabling…
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