There are plenty of vendors out there who claim to meet your big data needs, but their solutions are not usually designed to handle today's new data sources or built to take full advantage of the cloud.
Some try to sell you on complex, expensive hardware solutions that are difficult to use while others provide limited data visualisation solutions that address only one issue at a time.
See how Microsoft offers a complete, flexible data platform that helps businesses like yours gain insight from all of today's data sources, no matter where they reside.
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