{"id":10253,"date":"2018-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecloud.wpengine.com\/post\/building-your-1st-data-solution-in-azure\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T09:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:12:01","slug":"building-your-1st-data-solution-in-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/building-your-1st-data-solution-in-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Your First Data Solution in Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready to get in the cloud and build your first cloud data solution? I\u2019d like to tell you the 4 things you should know as you build your first data solution in Azure.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OwIvS1kFqi8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt\u2019s not much different than what you need to know when you build your first data solution on premises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You need to know how to store and organize your data.<\/li>\n<li>You need to be able to move it around.<\/li>\n<li>You need to be able to have a place to store it or land it, so you can query it and get the data back out.<\/li>\n<li>Then you need to have a way to visualize it \u2013 to explore it, tell a story with it or whatever you ultimately want to do with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in making the magic you\u2019ve created with Microsoft BI and reporting over the years on premise bigger, better and bolder, here are the four Microsoft Azure services that you should focus on in terms of your own learning and development:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0 Azure Storage<\/strong> \u2013 There are many different types of Azure Storage, all great in their own way. But a good first focus is Azure Blob Storage. Azure Blob Storage is the one people, especially beginners, start out with as it\u2019s the easiest one to get data in and out of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0 Azure Data Factory<\/strong> \u2013 Some refer to this as SSIS in the cloud \u2013 well, it is not, but it IS your best method for orchestrating and pipelining actions, activities and data movement in the cloud. There are many great labs for Azure Data Factory on the Microsoft site that will walk you through how to do that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.\u00a0 Pick a data platform<\/strong> &#8211; Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Cosmos DB; whichever data platform you choose, think about how you\u2019re going to store your data, what you need that data to do for you and how you\u2019ll want to access it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Power BI<\/strong> \u2013 Power BI is an incredibly powerful tool that gives you so many capabilities all inside of it. Things like Power Query to be able to query load, transform and manipulate your data all the way down through the amazing dashboarding, embedding and collaboration capabilities. Even if you start out with Power BI Desktop (which comes free with most Office subscriptions). Microsoft has made this tool super accessible and it continues to get better with updates every month.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the drill\u2014learn how to store your data in the cloud and get a handle on storage, Azure Data Factory, a data platform that fits your needs and round that out with Power BI. If you invest some time over a month to learn, you can cover all four of these areas and you\u2019ll be a rock star in no time.<\/p>\n<p>Need further help? Our expert team and solution offerings can help your business with any Azure product or service, including Managed Services offerings. Contact us at 888-8AZURE or\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:sales@3cloudsolutions.com\">sales@3cloudsolutions.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready to get in the cloud and build your first cloud data solution?&mldr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":9430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-ai","topics-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}