Azure Data Lake Analytics vs. MoreThanDigital Insights

Azure Data Lake Analytics services are beneficial when working with a lot of data. It can process enormous amounts of data extremely quickly. Service is secure and easy to set up, build, scale, and run on Azure. Regarding big data analytics and reporting, parallel processing has a significant impact. It consolidated our analytics from multiple systems and increased our analysis productivity. This tool has excellent support for reporting tools like Power BI and is very quick when performing analytics.

Incentivized

Definitely a recommendation. Every business owner or someone who wants to analyse his business should have a look at Insights. I guess especially as it is for free in the Base version (we got the Premium one) its a no-brainer to just do it. It takes less than 1-2 hours and it really gives deep insights into a company. I guess also perfect for consultants who can then offer follow-on services as MoreThanDigital isnt offering consulting - just the analytics.

• Process large data transformation jobs using pretty much any language needed.
• Native integration with Azure storage.
• Top notch security that fulfills all audit needs.
• Easy to consolidate enterprise data under one location - Single source of truth.

Incentivized

• Fast and easy
• Good report
• Deep analysis and diagnostics of the business
• Multi-User Engagement (to get feedback)
• Modular

• There's a bit of bias towards cloud with ADL Analytics. Depending upon a company's infra strategy and investment plans, there are some challenges with migration and integeration.
• Not worth the time/effort/money if the organization doesn't have "Volume" of data. Cost effective only when daily loads exceed around 1million.
• While training materials are available online, Adoption rate - Yet to pick up.

Incentivized

• Onboarding could be better
• Some explanations in the report could be added
• Sign-Up flow can be improved

Clear Data, we love its simplicity! Not nuclear science to understand the comprehensive reports!

It’s just so easy to enter data that is clearly defined, guaranteeing that the output is measurable and comparable!

We did some research about Alibaba Cloud Data Lake Analytics and even being cheaper than Azure Data Lake Analytics, we decided to go for the second one once we noticed they have more features and better documentation. Another thing we considered during this process was the fact that we have more people that already have Azure Cloud knowledge.

Incentivized

Well, till now we didnt use any tools for that. I am not even aware if something like that exists. But we worked just with consultants sometimes or mostly actually making strategic decisions on our own. So there was not really a big "process" before possible as we just made it like everyone else with discussions and some informal process.

• It lets us manage and scan data, making our work easy and efficient.
• It helped me manage real-time data, process it, and send it to reporting.
• Data centralization or data warehousing projects are being implemented with its help.

Incentivized

• We identified several areas for improvement
• We saw 10-20% savings in several areas
• Strategic discussions were pretty simple
• The report was super helpful for internal alignment
• Benchmarking helped us a lot to see how others are doing