{"id":5252,"date":"2026-02-25T08:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/insights\/what-is-azure-synapse"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:42:52","slug":"what-is-azure-synapse","status":"publish","type":"knowledge_pt","link":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/insights\/what-is-azure-synapse","title":{"rendered":"What is Azure Synapse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azure Synapse (also called Azure Synapse Analytics) is a cloud-based platform for data integration and analytics offered by Microsoft. It is used to integrate data from different sources, to structure and organize data in a way suitable for analytics, and to gain insights from data. This is also called an <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/simplified\/etl\">ETL or ELT <\/a><\/u>process.  <\/p>\n<p>Azure Synapse provides support for integrating data from different sources, such as data warehouses, <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/simplified\/data-lake\">data lakes <\/a><\/u>and databases. It can be used for both batch processing and streaming processing of data and thus can handle both structured data and unstructured data. <\/p>\n<p>It also provides powerful functionalities to easily <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/simplified\/data-mapping\">mapping of data<\/a><\/u><br \/>\nwith which to link source systems to your analytics environment. Finally, it offers powerful integration with reporting &#038; dashboard tools such as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/simplified\/microsoft-power-bi\">Microsoft Power BI.<\/a><\/u> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azure Synapse is a cloud-based platform for data integration and analytics offered by Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","knowledge_type":[58],"knowledge_category":[],"class_list":["post-5252","knowledge_pt","type-knowledge_pt","status-publish","hentry","knowledge_type-simplified"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_pt\/5252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_pt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledge_pt"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledge_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_type?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beeminds.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_category?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}