Using Azure Synapse to supercharge your data

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Connect with Matillion on the Azure Marketplace: https://bit.ly/2M8LqF1 Matthew Scullion is the CEO of Matillion, a company that reduces the complexity of a company’s data journey by providing rapid time to value with data integration and data transformation software for cloud data warehouses. As part of this discussion, we shared how their partnership with Microsoft, their use of Azure, and the Azure Marketplace has empowered them to scale and grow their business. Contact Matthew: Web: https://matillion.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/matillion-limited/ Twitter: @matillion Microsoft partnership opportunities for Storage and Data partners: [e-mail] Contact Avrohom: Web: https://asktheceo.biz Facebook: AvrohomGottheil Twitter: @avrohomg Instagram: @avrohomg INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS: [00:53] Cloud is now a mature technology, and many businesses are moving their mission-critical applications to the cloud. One of the byproducts of Digital Transformation and moving to the cloud is the copious amount of data that’s generated by all of our connected devices. As we know, data, for its own sake, doesn’t have that much intrinsic value. The real value is in the analytical information and business intelligence that we gather from that data. Of course, that’s much easier said than done. What are the challenges that businesses and large enterprises struggle with when it comes to unlocking that hidden value from within their data? [01:50] Every company needs to compete by using data. [02:07] Cloud gives businesses the ability to compete using data. [05:39] What can businesses do to overcome some of these challenges? Matthew: There are various ways to potentially solve data management and data transformation challenges highlighted above. Enterprises can still continue to manage on-premises ETL platforms for data transformation. If a company has decided to adopt a cloud strategy, there are various SaaS based data pipeline providers to help move data into a cloud data warehouse. Once data is in the cloud, there are various technologies (provided by cloud provider or 3rd parties) that can help to then perform transformations. Companies can also continue to leverage ETL developers to manually write SQL jobs for transformations. [10:21] Matillion recently launched a new offering on the Microsoft Azure marketplace, called Matillion ETL for Azure Synapse. Tell us about it and how it addresses some of the challenges we just discussed. Matthew: Matillion provides purpose-built data transformation for Microsoft Azure Synapse. Matillion enables Enterprises to easily integrate with over 100 data sources and then create data orchestration and transformation jobs to prepare data for analytics. Matillion is also cloud-native, taking advantage of the speed, scale, and economics of the Azure cloud platform. [17:24] How would a company use your solution with Azure? Matthew: Matillion products (Matillion ETL for Azure Synapse and Matillion ETL for Snowflake on Azure) are both available on the Azure Marketplace. Enterprises seeking to acquire Matillion can easily select a Matillion product, select the size of the Azure instance needed, and then deploy Matillion within the virtual environment. [19:39] How can customers find out more about Matillion ETL for Azure Synapse, and procure it through the Azure Marketplace? Matthew: They can access it via this link: https://bit.ly/2M8LqF1. [20:19] How has partnering with Microsoft helped Matillion scale and grow your business? [21:47] How can people find out more about Microsoft partnership opportunities for Storage and Data partners? Matthew: For more information you can send an email to [e-mail]. [22:26] How do people connect with you? [23:00] Do you have any parting words of wisdom that you’d like to share with the audience? #AskTheCEO With Matthew Scullion