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
Nikesh S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2022
UI-Based and Easy to Use
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?
The differentiating factor is that the tool can perform almost all the tasks like its competitors and it can do all that by writing minimal code and using maximum of UI features. This is something that no other similar service offers
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The best part of this service is that it can basically connect to almost all the data storage services/tools. This tool is highly recommended for ETL and data migration
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is nothing to dislike. It is one of the most simple tools to use for creating a data pipeline be it a simple one or a complex one
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This is definitely a super easy data migration tool to use and one must definitely give it a try. It integrates easily with data storage services and performing transformations on the data is very simple
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- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Sivaraman R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Insurance
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2022
Great Cloud ETL suite from MS
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?
Cost, ease of use, user experience, integration connectors with all major systems, robust data pipeline and seamless data handling. Varieties of clusters, compute services like HDInsight, Databricks and this is very easy to use for bulk data processing without knowing about the cluster
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Azure data factory has a wide range of connectors for many on-premise and cloud servers. Very easy to implement
What do you dislike most about this product?
Can improve performance on 3rd party system integration such as oracle, DB2, MySQL, postgres etc as the response is bit slow compared with SQL server
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Robust ETL tool for enterprises with minimum cost spent on ops and support
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- Continually Improving Product
- Trustworthy
- Generous Negotitation
- Over Delivered
Mario Alberto C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2022
Fantastic Product under the Microsoft Azure Cloud
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Azure Data Factory from other similar products?
The easy to use, the graphical approach (workflow style) and the ability to connect to multiple datasources as well.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Ability to connect datalakes.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing at this time.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For people to start on the Data Warehouse world definitely give a shot.
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- Reliable
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
