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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

Composite Score

8.3 /10

CX Score

8.6 /10

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What is Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

Azure Synapse is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless or provisioned resources—at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics won the following awards in the Analytical Data Store category

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5 Top Rated Capabilities

8 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2026

0 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2024

0 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2023

Service Experience

2022

1 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2022

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Ratings

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84 Likeliness to Recommend

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93 Plan to Renew

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80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

4% Negative

3% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Security Protects
Efficient Service
Respectful
Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Data Security

Data Integration

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Analytics and Reporting

Data Management

Platform Administration

Distributed Processing

Metadata Management

Workload Management and Monitoring

Real Time Capabilities

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

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Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Reviews

Arthur V.

Role: Operations
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2024

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics from other similar products?

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is generally considered a strong cloud-based data analytics platform, praised for its comprehensive data integration capabilities

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Users appreciate the ability to work with both SQL and Spark within a single interface, allowing for flexible data processing depending on the workload.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The emergence of Microsoft Fabric as a newer data analytics platform might raise questions about the future direction of Azure Synapse Analytics. Microsoft Fabric might be a more advanced option for certain use cases, potentially rendering Synapse somewhat outdated.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy

Bindu S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2026

the best datawarehousing features using synapse

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics from other similar products?

It combines big data analytics, data warehousing, and data integration (ETL/ELT) into a single unified workspace.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Serverless SQL pools or the seamless integration with other Azure services like Power BI and Azure Data Lake.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The interface can be slow, or the cost management can be confusing.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Make sure the team understands both SQL and Spark, and carefully monitor your resource pause settings.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

Kosisochukwu M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2025

A solid all-in-one analytics workspace

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics from other similar products?

Synapse stands out because it brings data warehousing, Spark processing, and data pipelines together in a single workspace. Instead of switching between separate services, everything stays connected within the Azure ecosystem. The tight integration with Azure Data Lake, Power BI, and other cloud services makes it much easier to build end-to-end analytics workflows.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite part is how easy it is to combine SQL and Spark workloads in the same environment. Being able to run transformations, build pipelines, and explore data without leaving the workspace saves a lot of time and keeps the process more organized.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The biggest challenge is the complexity of managing different pools and understanding the performance settings. It takes some time to learn how everything fits together, especially when switching between serverless and dedicated resources.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I’d recommend taking the time to set up a clear structure for storage, permissions, and resource pools from the beginning. Synapse becomes much easier to manage once those pieces are organized, and it performs best when you standardize how your team works with SQL and Spark.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Ratings

84 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

93 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Data Integration Includes integration of data from multiple sources, merging systems, transforming data and capture data to form a unified view of a company's data assets

Analytics and Data Science Tools Includes Analytics and Data science components such as AI, statistical and machine learning libraries

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Data Management Includes data sharing, data storage, records management, and data security.

Platform Administration Includes back-end interface and administrative capabilities

Distributed Processing Data storage and processing is shared among many physical or virtual independents servers or sites for high volume data with seamless access to large datasets.

Metadata Management Easily manage metadata associated with customer data or audience segments.

Workload Management and Monitoring Includes task, performance, monitoring and time management

Real Time Capabilities Ability to analytics and visualize data as soon as it becomes available in underline systems.

Data Visualization Thematic visualization with the ability to change views, including color, pattern/icon, dot-density, chart, scaled-symbol, and 3D prism themes

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Reviews

Arthur V.

Fantastic product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Bindu S.

the best datawarehousing features using synapse

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kosisochukwu M.

A solid all-in-one analytics workspace

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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