What is Azure Synapse Analytics? Generally Available Today.

<p>Azure Synapse is now generally available. Check out the updates with the release and a first look at additional capabilities coming soon. If you're new to Azure Synapse, it's Microsoft's limitless analytics platform that brings together enterprise data warehousing and big data processing into a single managed environment with no systems integration required. John Macintyre, engineering lead for Azure Synapse, joins host Jeremy Chapman to provide details on the newest updates, and walk through how a grocery retailer might use new capabilities in Synapse to plan inventory levels.</p> <p>Preview capabilities in the Synapse workspace now ready for production workloads:</p> <p>• Azure Synapse Link, the first cloud-native HTAP solution.</p> <p>• SQL Serverless, now generally available.</p> <p>• For analytics with Spark, we've built performance optimizations for our implementation of Apache spark.</p> <p>New capabilities, formerly in preview, are now available and fully supported:</p> <p>• New knowledge center gives you pipeline templates to bring data in sample scripts for analytics, automation, and notebooks.</p> <p>• Bring data into Synapse for advanced analytics and to enrich that data in code-free ways and apply your Azure machine-learning models.</p> <p>Added for data admins:</p> <p>• Connect to your data and storage securely through managed private endpoints.</p> <p>• You no longer have to manage subnets, worry about IP ranges, or configure private endpoints. You don't need deep networking knowledge.</p> <p>► QUICK LINKS:</p> <p>00:00 - Introduction</p> <p>00:46 - Preview capabilities now ready for production workloads</p> <p>02:07 - New capabilities that are available and fully supported</p> <p>02:55 - Updates added for data admins</p> <p>04:15 - Demo: How a Grocery retailer might use new capabilities in Synapse</p> <p>08:59 - Demo: How to bring in historical data</p> <p>10:28 - Demo: How to perform predictive analytics for yourself</p> <p>12:48 - Demo: How to push it all into production</p> <p>13:24 - Closin