Modern Business Intelligence (BI) Architecture — Azure Synapse Analytics

Srini Velamakanti
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
3 min readJun 27, 2021

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Data volume is getting bigger exponentially and Organizations are seeking innovative ways to utilize this data and transform them into valuable insights that potentially increase the business value

The Traditional Business Intelligence Solutions succeeded in providing Organizations a full-fledged historical reporting of “What happened so far?” such as daily on-hand balance or weekly sales or monthly revenues ..etc.

But to survive and succeed in today’s intensely competitive modern business world, companies should know “What is happening, what will happen, and why?”, So to get these details, companies need advanced data analysis techniques and require direct access to the most recent, and up-to-date data.

This article focuses on Modern Business Intelligence (BI) Architecture and various data platform services that Azure offers to support this modern architecture.

Modern Business Intelligence (BI) Architecture

Azure Synapse Analytics is an advanced analytics service aimed at large companies that are looking to modernize their analytics platforms. This brings both enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics together to answer “What is happening, what will happen, and why?” and expand the capabilities of the businesses in advanced data analytics.

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