The power of cloud data warehouses is becoming more widely known thanks to its involvement in newsworthy achievements such as calculating pi to 31,415,926,535,897 digits. Combining this mammoth potential for handling complex data and solving equations in a single secure hub has brought new possibilities to how we research, develop and design. Lots of big players like Amazon, Google, IBM and SAP have developed a Cloud Data Warehouse technology offering, along with smaller players like Snowflake. With so many providers it can mean a lot of number crunching and data analysis is required to select the correct provider for your needs. Data Management experts, ZAP are here to help.
Most data professionals need a fast and agile foundation to build their workloads on. From manufacturing quality control, shipping and logistics tracking, financial reporting, customer satisfaction analysis, the tasks and departments the Enterprise Data Warehouse must support are demanding and sometimes difficult to predict. Being fully integrated with BI tools such as Power BI and Tableau is crucial. To ensure adoption across all departments, compatibility with ERP and CRM platforms like Dynamics and internal systems like databases and Excel is key.
For these requirements, the Data Warehouse of choice should be Microsoft Azure. Along with compatibility and speedy, there are many more benefits to be had:
Initial Cost Savings: Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse independently scales computing and storage so customers only pay for the query performance, and if you pause the service, you only pay for storage. As a result, not only is the cost of entry lower, but you are not risking a huge sum of money to make the move.
Reduced Ongoing Costs: With a warehouse in the cloud, the costs of supervising staff, servers, floor space, power and cooling are covered by your provider. The Azure payment structure makes this particularly attainable regardless of your usage level.
Scalability: As well as scaling storage capacity up and down, cloud data warehouses can scale outwardly for a higher user capacity. With the click of a button it’s possible to add more resources or processing power and move additional data to the cloud. This can be added to an existing cluster, allowing more users to access the same data without degrading the query performance. As this happens dynamically, there are no barriers to the next breakthrough with employees waiting around for new servers to be delivered and installed.
Security: Microsoft Azure has to reach the highest security standards set by government institutions and global certification boards. With compliance to SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI, it makes gaining these certifications for your organisation and complying with these regulations far more straightforward. Strict levels of authentication and authorisation and full logging and auditing is also provided.
Unique features:
Non-Relational data – making storage more flexible and less rules based than other more traditional database options.
Data stream accommodation – Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Lake Analytics and Azure HDInsight combine to support streams of data that are high volume, smaller transactions that may usually need queuing to process.
To start saving time and money and reach your full business potential, contact ZAP to help you migrate your databases to Azure today.