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What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?

I've seen a lot of data integration tools come and go. Azure Data Factory (ADF) has carved out a strong position in the market because ADF deeply integrates with the entire Azure ecosystem - Blob Storage, Data Lake Storage, Synapse Analytics, Databricks, and many more and this tight coupling simplifies data movement and processing within Azure, reducing complexity and latency. It isn't just an ETL tool. It has a broad range of capabilities, including data ingestion, transformation, orchestration and monitoring-a versatile platform for building complex data pipelines. Moreover, ADF's pay-as-you-go pricing model is very cost-effective for us.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

What I most like about ADF is it can connect to both on-premises and cloud data sources, enabling hybrid data integration scenarios. ADF acts as an orchestrator, combining the specialized capabilities of other Azure services. For example, it can use Databricks for complex data transformations, Azure Machine Learning for predictive analytics and Azure Functions for custom logic Because ADF is part of the Azure ecosystem, it benefits from unified management and monitoring tools, simplifying operations and provides a consistent experience across different services.

What do you dislike most about this product?

No particular dislikes but if I have to pick the most significant area for improvement, it would be the debugging and monitoring experience, particularly for complex pipelines. Debugging complex pipelines with multiple activities and data flows is cumbersome. The error messages are sometimes generic and don't provide sufficient context to pinpoint the root cause. Stepping through a pipeline execution like in a traditional debugger is not available. It would be highly beneficial to have the ability to preview data at various stages of the pipeline during debugging.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If your data resides primarily within Azure (Blob Storage, Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL Database, Synapse Analytics etc.), ADF is a natural fit. Its deep integration with these services simplifies data movement, transformation and orchestration, hugely reducing complexity and development time. This is its strongest selling point. ADF has a wide array of pre-built connectors for various data sources and transformations. ADF's visual interface is quite easy to get started with basic data ingestion and transformation tasks. Begin with smaller, well-defined pipelines to familiarize yourself with the platform before tackling more complex projects.

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?

Amazing feature of azure

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of implementation

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing to dislike

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Best product out there

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?

Its security features, integration method/approach, and components used in tool differentiates ADF from other tools. Basically, Microsoft always focuses to maintain customers integrity, that's a good business logic in IT industry.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like Azure Data Factory's objects maintenance to use in future pipelines. Linked Services, Integration Runtime, Datasets, and Data Flows are very helpful to maintain in single place and can be reused in other pipelines.

What do you dislike most about this product?

'One thing I'm getting frustrated in ADF is its high technical words usage in console, basically everyone is a new user in new platform so on that time seeing high technical language in configuration making users panic and as well as frustration. So, improving this would increase the rating in UI is my advice to Microsoft.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If someone looking for an ETL Tool with high integrity and multi-tenant feature, I would suggest them ADF. And I believe that the user will not regret for the decision to buy ADF. Because it's had lot of features with various integration sources and well-maintained documentation support for learning the technical usage will help users to get hands on quickly.