Azure Data Lake Analytics vs. smartocto

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ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Data Lake Analytics
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Microsoft's Azure Data Lake Analytics is a BI service for processing big data jobs without consideration for infrastructure.N/A
smartocto
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Smartocto creates smart editorial analytics: analytical tools for newsrooms and content creators, to track and analyse the performance of the content they publish online. Its goal is to make data actionable, because content creators are not data analysts. They need data that's easy to interpret and attractive to look at. Analysing content performance consists of two things: keeping an eye on…N/A
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Azure Data Lake Analyticssmartocto
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(6 ratings)
8.4
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User Testimonials
Azure Data Lake Analyticssmartocto
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
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.
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smartocto
Great for setting up MEL measurements for web based media. Great for use in media environments especially where there is no dedicated data analytics staff. Not sure how useful it would be for those sites that are not content focused.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • 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.
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smartocto
  • Providing actionable data the moment that you need it
  • Providing a clear and easy to use UX
  • Very flexible when it comes to the configuration for your particular business
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Cons
Microsoft
  • 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.
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smartocto
  • It has a lot of information and data all over the place. It took us some time to get used to it and get people properly onboarded. We have seen some improvement, but UX has more space to improve.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
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.
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smartocto
smartocto is much easier to use and is perfectly setup so that newsrooms can see the information they need in a quick and easy-to-use format.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • 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.
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smartocto
  • It had a positive ROI in terms of support they provide and custom based approach to all our media partners
  • Readiness to find solutions to any type of question we might have
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