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- Thought leadership
- Jul 17, 2024
- 4 min read
Enable location analytics with Azure Maps
With Microsoft Azure Maps, organizations worldwide are using location data to create similar applications and experiences for mobile and web to gain unique insights, solve critical challenges, and improve their businesses.

- Announcements
- Nov 28, 2023
- 8 min read
Democratizing FinOps: Transform your practice with FOCUS and Microsoft Fabric
With new developments like Copilot in Microsoft Cost Management and Microsoft Fabric, there couldn’t be a better time to take a fresh look at how you manage cost within your organization and how you can leverage the FinOps Framework and the FinOps Open Cost and

- Announcements
- May 23, 2023
- 10 min read
Introducing Microsoft Fabric: Data analytics for the era of AI
Today we are unveiling Microsoft Fabric—an end-to-end, unified analytics platform that brings together all the data and analytics tools that organizations need.
- Partnerships
- Sep 22, 2022
- 5 min read
Future-ready IoT implementations on Microsoft Azure
Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms for the second year in a row. And Frost and Sullivan named the platform the Global IoT platform of the year.
- Thought leadership
- Aug 17, 2022
- 3 min read
Gain deeper insights with Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform
The Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform, empowers organizations to invest more time creating value rather than integrating and managing their data estate.
- Announcements
- Aug 16, 2022
- 2 min read
Azure Data Explorer: Log and telemetry analytics benchmark
Azure Data Explorer, a component of Azure Synapse Analytics, is a highly scalable analytics service optimized for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It provides users with an interactive query experience that unlocks insights from the ocean of ever-growing log and telemetry data.
- Thought leadership
- Jun 30, 2021
- 7 min read
Advancing safe deployment with AIOps—introducing Gandalf
The continuous monitoring of health metrics is a fundamental part of this process, and this is where AIOps plays a critical role.
- Business decision makers
- Sep 30, 2020
- 5 min read
Scaling Microsoft Kaizala on Azure
Microsoft Kaizala is a secure work management and mobile messaging app for mobile-only users. Today, we’re sharing some of our learnings about managing and scaling an enterprise grade productivity app resulting from the increased usage related to working from home.
- Best practices
- Aug 19, 2020
- 3 min read
Share big data at scale with Azure Data Share in-place sharing for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Share in-place Sharing for Azure Data Explorer, now generally available, enables you to share big data easily and securely between internal departments and with external partners, vendors, or customers for near real-time collaboration.
- Best practices
- Jan 16, 2020
- 4 min read
Azure Data Explorer and Stream Analytics for anomaly detection
Anomaly detection plays a vital role in many industries across the globe, such as fraud detection for the financial industry, health monitoring in hospitals, fault detection and operating environment monitoring in the manufacturing, oil and gas, utility, transportation, aviation, and automotive industries.
- Announcements
- Nov 13, 2019
- 2 min read
Save more on Azure usage—Announcing reservations for six more services
With reserved capacity you can get significant discounts over your on-demand costs by committing to long-term usage of a service. We are pleased to share reserved capacity offerings for the following additional services.
- Data professionals
- Sep 30, 2019
- 2 min read
Built-in Jupyter notebooks in Azure Cosmos DB are now available
Built-in Jupyter notebooks for Azure Cosmos DB are now publicly available. Developers, data scientists, engineers and analysts can use the familiar Jupyter notebooks experience to interactively run queries, explore and analyze data, visualize data & build, train, and run machine learning and AI models.
