
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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Microsoft Azure Data Factory Reviews

Baratam V.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2023
To keep your data clean this will be awesome one!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?
Great UI which will navigate the user easily around options. Templates available for more business scenarios for creating data flows. Ease use of data security and user security. Better licensing plan and pay as you go option
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Copy data option and moving on-premises data to SQL server vice versa.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing I could find out as of now but if azure can more trial time and credits for starters to test or play around more
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are dealing more data like blob data or any other. Consider this product which give you options to maintain your data clean and move easily between on-premises to cloud.
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- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Anish Kumar D.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2023
A niche usefull product from Microsoft
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What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?
There are many similar products from different cloud vendors, but Azure Data Factory stood out to us as we have a heavy Azure infra skilled resources and easy to integrate with other servies inside Azure.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Data wrangling, mapping and transformation are the most interesting features along with its ability to serve multiple platforms ranging from Azure native, on-prem and other CSP and openstack cloud on colo facilities.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Most of the solution is implemented with expectation of use of Azure as the core environement, there will be some extra tasks that need to be performed for integration with other CSP.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Before planning a long term solution for this, run though your Dev, test and POC for a extended period. In those period try using other CSP also before taking any decision.
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- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features

Martand S.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2023
Best cloud based data integration tool
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What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?
It's easy to use & the features are very accurate and well integrated with other azure features. It is very well integrated with DevOps, databricks & hdinsight.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Data flow & monitoring are the best features for me.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is no dislike as the product is one of the best in the market.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I will suggest a new user to take advantage of its data flow feature. It is very helpful for basic no code transformation.
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- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service