Azure Synapse Analytics
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What is Azure Synapse Analytics?
What is AnalyticsCreator?
Integrations Supported
Integrations Supported
API Availability
API Availability
Pricing Information
Pricing Information
Supported Platforms
Supported Platforms
Customer Service / Support
Customer Service / Support
Training Options
Training Options
Company Facts
Organization Name
Microsoft
Date Founded
1975
Company Location
United States
Company Website
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/synapse-analytics/
Company Facts
Organization Name
AnalyticsCreator
Company Location
Germany
Company Website
www.analyticscreator.com
Categories and Features
Big Data
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Columnar Databases
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Data Analysis
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Data Engineering
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Data Management
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Data Preparation
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Data Science
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Data Warehouse
Database
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ETL
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OLAP Databases
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Predictive Analytics
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Categories and Features
Data Engineering
AnalyticsCreator is an innovative, model-centric data engineering tool designed for teams utilizing Microsoft SQL Server, Azure, and Microsoft Fabric. Data engineers leverage source metadata and intuitive wizards to create both business and technical models, establish data transformations, define historization rules, and manage processing dependencies. The generated implementation code evolves alongside the model, ensuring visibility throughout the development process. From the governed project, AnalyticsCreator produces native database structures, SSIS packages, Azure Data Factory assets, and other compatible Fabric pipeline components, as well as deployment packages and Power BI semantic model definitions. The platform features integrated testing and version control, facilitating managed modifications and consistent delivery. The generated implementations work seamlessly within the client's Microsoft ecosystem without requiring a dedicated AnalyticsCreator runtime in production.
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Data Integration
AnalyticsCreator facilitates data integration based on metadata for environments involving Microsoft data warehousing and analytics. It imports metadata from source systems into a controlled project where developers establish relationships, define mappings, create ingestion rules, and outline transformations, historisation processes, and processing dependencies. The tool generates the corresponding implementation logic, producing SQL processing scripts, SSIS packages, Azure Data Factory pipelines, and orchestration artifacts for Microsoft Fabric. In the event of changes to source structures, the metadata refresh and connected lineage features enable engineers to pinpoint affected areas, allowing them to update the model and regenerate the necessary outputs efficiently. Data transfer and processing operations are carried out by the designated target technologies, while AnalyticsCreator maintains the context of design, generation, and change management throughout the process.
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Data Lake
AnalyticsCreator is designed to work seamlessly with Microsoft Fabric data frameworks, utilizing OneLake as its core storage system. The main function of AnalyticsCreator is to create governed data warehouse models, establish transformation logic, manage processing dependencies, and build analytical frameworks. It then produces the necessary native artifacts for Microsoft Fabric Warehouse and Data Factory pipelines. This initiative also oversees the management of source metadata, relationships, transformations, and analytical definitions, ensuring that the design of the warehouse can adapt and grow while maintaining its business and technical integrity. Within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, OneLake provides storage, execution for warehouses, and runtime services for pipelines. AnalyticsCreator offers model-driven design and generation features, rather than serving as an independent data lake storage solution or a Spark processing framework.
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Data Lineage
AnalyticsCreator offers comprehensive metadata-driven visibility into data lineage and dependencies throughout the data warehouse and analytical models within a given project. By establishing connections between source structures, business definitions, mappings, transformations, relationships, and semantic model definitions, it enables teams to trace the flow of data from its original sources to analytical outputs seamlessly. When the source metadata is updated, any impacted areas within the project lineage are highlighted for further examination. This feature aids in conducting change-impact assessments prior to altering transformations, warehouse configurations, or downstream analytical models. The platform also includes project versioning, automated documentation generation, and logged test results, which serve as evidence for managing controlled changes effectively. The lineage depicted reflects the documented project design and its corresponding coverage, rather than relying on universal runtime monitoring.
Data Management
AnalyticsCreator is an application designed for model-driven design and automation specifically tailored for Microsoft data ecosystems. It seamlessly integrates business definitions, source metadata, logical and physical models, transformation rules, implementation code, dependencies, and documentation within a structured project framework. This interconnected system empowers organizations to maintain a comprehensive understanding of their data architecture, assess the implications of modifications, and minimize dependency on individual developers or disparate documentation sources. Features such as project versioning, metadata-driven lineage tracking, and built-in testing facilitate controlled development and ongoing maintenance. AnalyticsCreator produces native artifacts for data warehouses, pipelines, and analytics that are compatible with various Microsoft technologies, ensuring that the resultant solutions function autonomously within their designated environments. The primary emphasis of AnalyticsCreator is on the governance and engineering of data analytics solutions, distinguishing it from traditional operational master data management practices.
Data Modeling
AnalyticsCreator facilitates a model-first approach for creating data models—be they business, logical, physical, or semantic—tailored for Microsoft analytics platforms. Using intelligent wizards, the tool harnesses source metadata and specific project requirements to create dimensional, normalized, hybrid, and layered data warehouse architectures. Teams can effectively design facts, dimensions, relationships, business keys, transformation processes, and rules for data historization. In contrast to traditional modeling tools that solely produce diagrams, AnalyticsCreator concurrently generates the relevant implementation code as the model evolves, ensuring clarity throughout the development process. The structured project framework interlinks business semantics, technical components, transformation logic, data lineage, and documentation. Building on this groundwork, AnalyticsCreator produces compatible implementation artifacts for SQL Server, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI. Model First. Then Generate.
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Data Warehouse
AnalyticsCreator facilitates the creation of data warehouses through model-driven development and automation for Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, and compatible environments within Microsoft Fabric Warehouse. Utilizing intelligent wizards, the tool leverages source metadata alongside design choices to construct tailored warehouse models specific to each project. Throughout the development process, business definitions, relationships, transformation logic, and implementation code remain interconnected. The platform produces native SQL components, including structures, views, stored procedures, historization, snapshot logic, DACPAC deployment packages, and orchestration artifacts suitable for loading. Built-in testing functionality allows for a comparison between actual processing outcomes and established expectations, ensuring proper validation prior to deployment. The solutions generated can operate seamlessly within the chosen Microsoft environment without necessitating a runtime from AnalyticsCreator.
ETL
AnalyticsCreator offers a metadata-centric approach for designing and generating ETL and ELT workflows tailored for Microsoft data warehouse setups. In this environment, developers can specify the ingestion, transformation, historical data management, storage, and processing interdependencies within a controlled project framework. The associated SQL and processing logic evolves in tandem with the model and is readily accessible for examination. The platform automatically produces compatible SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages, Azure Data Factory pipelines, and Microsoft Fabric pipeline components, along with the necessary database processing logic. With integrated testing capabilities, users can perform repeatable validations based on developer-defined inputs and anticipated outcomes. The generated workloads run directly within the chosen Microsoft environment, rather than relying on a proprietary runtime from AnalyticsCreator.
Metadata Management
AnalyticsCreator oversees the management of linked metadata essential for the creation, enhancement, and adaptation of Microsoft data analytics solutions. Within a regulated project framework, it houses various elements such as source definitions, business concepts, models, relationships, transformation rules, implementation code, dependencies, and deployment configurations. This metadata facilitates model-driven development, the generation of documentation, lineage tracking, assessment of change impacts, project versioning, and the automatic generation of implementations. Building upon this foundation, AnalyticsCreator Design Intelligence enhances accessibility by allowing authorized MCP-compatible AI agents to analyze, explain, and propose technical adjustments based on the context of saved projects. The specific context available depends on the project and its supported scope, with any suggested alterations requiring human oversight and adherence to organizational guidelines.
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Semantic Layer
AnalyticsCreator seamlessly integrates the development of semantic models with the structured design of a governed data warehouse, enabling teams to uphold uniform analytical frameworks within Microsoft data ecosystems. In this process, facts, dimensions, relationships, measures, and hierarchies are established within the same project framework as the source metadata and transformation logic. The tool produces compatible Power BI semantic model components, including outputs in the form of Power BI Project (PBIP) files utilizing Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL). These text-based definitions can be easily reviewed, versioned, and integrated into established Git and CI/CD workflows. While Power BI takes charge of report visualizations, workspace setups, and analytical processes, AnalyticsCreator lays the groundwork for the connected design and generation of the semantic model.
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