
What is Microsoft Azure Data Factory?
Azure Data Factory is Azure's cloud ETL service for scale-out serverless data integration and data transformation. It offers a code-free UI for intuitive authoring and single-pane-of-glass monitoring and management. Data Factory provides a data integration and transformation layer that works across your digital transformation initiatives.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend
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98 Plan to Renew
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80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Security Protects
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Performance Enhancing
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Microsoft Azure Data Factory Reviews

Ajay C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted May 2023
Amazing product with fantastic features
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?
The ease of use and the most user friendly UI had made this product be a standalone in the market. I would definitely suggest this to others.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Importing data from a client鈥檚 server or cloud data to an Azure Data Lake has helped the ease to use in synapse analytics for reporting and BI purposes.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Activity failure mails which is sent does not specify which activity has failed. Which can be an add-on in the future which would be very useful to analyse the blocking point
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Ease of use , pay as you go model , one stop for all ETL needs , user friendly UI , drag and drop features is very easy to learn even for business people.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy

Yash G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2023
ADF has been a useful tool for orchestration.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?
Airflow Cron jobs
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Drag and drop of job elements
What do you dislike most about this product?
Logs are hard to read and write logs
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For consuming logs wish there was a power bi dashboard to check the job health
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
- Respectful

Mit S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2023
Perfect product for creating data pipelines
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?
Azure data factory is easy to use and has a very good UI. the learning curve with this tool is steep. It offers a lot of options for an engineer and also has a very good peer network and documentation
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like how it is very easy to operate and the flexibility it has
What do you dislike most about this product?
I dont like the pricing to be honest.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If it fits your business need go for it
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Inspires Innovation
- Security Protects
- Helps Innovate