Analyze at scale
Run SQL queries, Spark jobs, and data exploration workloads across structured and semi-structured data.
Microsoft cloud analytics platform
Unified analytics for data engineering, warehousing, and business intelligence.
Azure Synapse Analytics brings enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics into one service, helping teams ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.
Core capabilities
What Azure Synapse helps teams do
Build data pipelines
Create orchestration flows for ingestion, transformation, scheduling, and monitoring across data sources.
Serve BI workloads
Connect analytics outputs to reporting tools such as Power BI for dashboards and operational insights.
Collaborate in one workspace
Use a shared Synapse workspace to manage notebooks, SQL scripts, pipelines, security, and linked services.
History
From SQL Data Warehouse to Synapse Analytics
2015
Microsoft introduced Azure SQL Data Warehouse as a cloud-scale data warehouse service.
2019
Azure Synapse Analytics was announced, expanding the warehouse model into a broader analytics workspace.
2020+
Synapse matured with deeper integration across Spark, serverless SQL, pipelines, security, and Power BI scenarios.