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3Cloud Demo Day video of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a massively parallel Big Data store in the Cortana Analytics Suite of products.

The Lambda Architecture offers a novel way to bridge the gap between the \"single version of the truth\" and the highly sought \"I want it now\" real time solution.

Learn more about the Azure Data Catalog from Microsoft. A data catalog can be of assistance with self-service BI, operational BI, corporate BI, analytics, and data science efforts several ways, including data discovery, reducing duplication efforts, and a repository for common definitions.

HDInsight and Azure ML provide the ability to work with massive amounts of data for advanced analytics workloads.

Beyond the high level overview of promotion performance, marketing analysts could be interested in diving deeper into the data to understand product and category performance within a particular promotion. This approach could be part of an overall self-service BI strategy.

Here are 3 hands-on labs to help you get started with Azure ML.

All organizations have data and in order to understand performance, it is important to analyze that data. Many organizations rely on traditional data warehouse and business intelligence solutions to build a one-stop-shop for decision makers to access their reports and data. Understand how the Modern Data Platform and Data Lakes with Hadoop can help solve many of today\'s data and analytics issues.

Big Data and Advanced Analytics is category of solutions that combines tools to process large amounts of structured or unstructured data with statistics.

Early descriptive analysis helps explore existing questions and creates new ones. See how Zeppelin with Spark on Azure HDInsight can help get answers.

Optimizing promotions requires a clear understanding of what works and what doesn’t this can be done by analyzing performances & comparing promotions

Recently Microsoft announced that Azure Data Factory moved out of public preview and is now generally available. This is big news.

One of the latest buzzwords is the Internet of Things (IoT). This post examines what we can expect from IoT and big data\'s role in it.