Three core capabilities reveal the unique secret to fully unlocking the value of data

With the deepening of digital transformation, more and more enterprises have embarked on the road of transformation. However, in the face of a rapidly changing market and fierce competition, when everyone has the same goal and adopts a similar approach, how can a company stand out from its competitors and achieve more satisfactory results? At this point, core competencies are often more important.

Businesses today are undergoing the most significant economic transformation of our generation. The ability to fully realize the potential of the cloud through digital transformation has never been more important. Unlimited database scale and performance , unparalleled analysis and in-depth insights , and unified data governance , enterprises need these three core capabilities and integrate them perfectly to jointly drive the success of transformation.

Many businesses across a wide range of industries are investing in these core capabilities to ensure they have the flexibility to innovate anytime, anywhere and meet evolving business needs. So how do companies acquire these capabilities?

Unlimited database size and performance

Microsoft recently launched the SQL Server 2022 preview version, which is the most powerful SQL Server version supported by Azure so far. This release further simplifies cloud integration with new disaster recovery capabilities for Azure SQL Managed Instance and seamless analysis of on-premises operational data through Synapse Link for SQL Server.

Microsoft will also continue to Azure SQL Family Database to provide flexible options for application migration, modernization and development. Azure SQL instance hosting also recently announced several major announcement , including a significant increase in the memory capacity of each vCore business solutions to expand the storage capacity in the common service layer and business-critical services layer to 16TB, for the application to provide greater growth space.

Azure is also the best cloud solution for NoSQL and open source databases. Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database designed to power production applications of any size or scale. Economically guaranteed by a service level agreement (SLA) with guaranteed consistency, high throughput, less than 10ms read and write latency, and 99.999% availability, developers can easily and flexibly scale applications across any Azure region.

• In addition, Microsoft officially released Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra . With automated deployment and scaling operations, this instance configures a managed native Apache Cassandra cluster, accelerating hybrid scenarios and reducing ongoing maintenance.
• Flexible Server (preview), New deployment options for Azure Database for MySQL With Flexible Server, customers can get the most out of the fully managed service, have the most control over the database, ensure zero data loss with high availability options, optimize costs with built-in features, and leverage the Azure ecosystem to increase productivity.

Unrivaled Analysis and Insights

When it comes to analytics and deep insights, Azure is unrivaled. When Microsoft first introduced Azure Synapse Analytics , it effectively removed the barriers between enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics, making it easy for data professionals to collaborate, build and manage analytics solutions. Since the solution launched, the number of Azure customers running petabyte-scale workloads has grown fivefold.

Yet we didn't stop there.

• Last year, Microsoft launched Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB for creating simple, low-cost, cloud-native HTAP designs that enable instant, real-time business depth information.
• Microsoft continues to invest today with the official launch of Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse , enabling immediate insights with high-value Dynamics 365 data, and the preview of Azure Synapse Link for SQL Server 2022.
• In addition, Microsoft officially announced the addition of Azure Synapse Data Explorer to the existing lineup of SQL and Apache Spark analytics runtimes in Azure Synapse. A highly scalable engine that automatically indexes structured, semi-structured, and free-text data commonly found in telemetry, time series, and logs, uncovering rich insights that directly improve business decisions.

Unified Data Governance

The need for comprehensive data governance services has never been greater. Microsoft's unified data governance service Azure Purview , helps enterprises manage and govern their on-premises, multi-cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) data. It is very encouraging to see the strong market interest in Azure Purview since its official availability. Customers have discovered more than 57 billion data assets. With deep integration with data services in solutions like Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and more, Azure Purview ensures your Microsoft data domain is governed. Every institution can now build a unified data governance solution to maximize the value of their cloud data.

Take London Heathrow Machine for example who have had great success with Azure Purview. The airport data team leveraged lineage data in Azure Purview to discover associations between datasets that are important in determining how each airport service affects operations at large.

"We used to have a lot of data that gave us a general sense of things. But now with Azure Purview, we can go deep into the unknown. That is, we can aggregate multiple data sources in a more convenient way and find that we can improve efficiency, A place to improve the quality of decision-making.”
— Dave Draffin Heathrow, Azure Cloud and Data Architect

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It goes without saying that data has become the most strategic asset of our time. Looking forward to seeing you find it worthwhile.