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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…

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…

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…

This document focuses on the resiliency aspect of Azure. It provides guidance on designing resilient applications on Azure and provides sample application design patterns for varied levels of resilience. The audience for this document is anyone moving applications from on-premises to Azure, or building applications on Azure, including CTOs, CIOs, Cloud Solution Architects, Business Continuity…