What is Microsoft Azure Services?

Azure has ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organization meet your business challenges.

Microsoft Azure is one of the few companies which offer Cloud Computing Services. In addition to traditional cloud offerings, Azure offers open-source, standards-based technologies and proprietary solutions from Microsoft and other companies.

With a usage-based billing formula, Azure is a compelling option for enterprises transitioning to cloud where capacity is available on demand.

Keep reading to learn how Microsoft Azure can be used as an enterprise analytics tool, and how our team of professionals can help you reveal insights that will propel your organization forward.

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The most popular Microsoft Azure Services

Solutions can be designed by using different combinations of Azure resources based on the business needs. Below you can find several commonly used Azure services.

Analytics

Azure Analytics services can gather, store, process, analyze, and visualize data of any variety, volume, or velocity.

AI + Machine Learning

AI + Machine Learning services can create the next generation of applications using artificial intelligence capabilities for any developer and any scenario.

Internet of Things

Internet of Things services brings IoT to any device and any platform, without changing your infrastructure.

DevOps

DevOps delivers innovation faster with simple, reliable tools for continuous delivery.

Security

Security services protect your enterprise from advanced threats across hybrid cloud workloads.

Databricks

Databricks is an end-to-end web-based analytics platform that makes it easy to combine Big Data, Data Science and Apache Spark.

Why choose Azure Services instead of SQL on-premise for your data platform?

There are many business benefits in choosing Azure Cloud Services technology for your data platform.

Savings on licenses and investment

If you are using one or more on-premise data solutions today, they typically have a fixed license structure that is valid for a longer period. The payment for cloud services is dynamic and follows the use, so you only pay for what you really need and when you need it. Thus, a data solution can start small with few components, limited amounts of data and few users. When you need more functionality or more capacity, you can expand continuously and only then will the data solution cost more.

In the case of a typical data solution, an organization also pays for the expected future capacity before the project is started. With a data solution in Azure Cloud Services, on the other hand, you pay for the solution’s capacity on an ongoing basis. A cloud payment model, therefore, has a positive effect on the time distribution of the organization’s investment.

Securing new opportunities – avoid getting stuck in old solutions

It is an advantage that Microsoft Azure is constantly being developed and expanded with new functionality and new capabilities. However, this also set some demands for the developers working with a data platform, because they need to make sure that their knowledge and competencies are updated so they can use the new options. It may be perceived as a double-edged sword but from experience, this is a better scenario than the risk associated with ending up with old versions of the technology in a data solution.

Data-driven – every day

When an organization makes an evaluation and decides what technology they want to use for their platform, then they only know about the need that is visible today and in the nearest future. When you decide to base your solution on cloud services, you also buy a technological platform that is constantly evolving. This means that you get built-in help to secure the future of the opportunities you are given.

Business development, agility and maturity

Just as market conditions and customer preferences may change, so can the organization’s needs for the use of analytics and analytics technologies. Every organization want agility in their IT support, the ability to change direction, experiment with new ways of using data, and perhaps stop one initiative and accelerate another. Cloud provides a much better opportunity to work flexibly with your data platform because Azure Services can be turned on and off as needed.

Worth knowing about Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing Service
We actually use this cloud service on a daily basis without noticing when we use our web-based email service, watching movies through the internet, editing documents, and storing pictures. All of these interactions use cloud computing on the back-end. 

In the business world, Cloud Computing Service covers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Software as a Service (SaaS).

Cloud-first or Cloud-only
In European Comission Cloud Strategy approved 2019 May 16th) cloud is an enabler, which means that any new development should be cloud-native.

Cloud computing is now more than a decade old. Kapacity clients that at the beginning tested small workloads to the cloud are now moving bigger mission-critical workloads as well. Henceforward companies transition from cloud-first to a cloud-only strategy.

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