Data Lake Analytics on Microsoft Azure: A Practitioner's Guide to Big Data Engineering

© Harsh Chawla and Pankaj Khattar 2020

H. Chawla, P. KhattarData Lake Analytics on Microsoft Azurehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6252-8_2

2. Building Blocks of Data Analytics

Harsh Chawla¹   and Pankaj Khattar²

(1)

Bengaluru, India

(2)

Delhi, India

 

Data analytics solutions have become one of the most critical investments for organizations today. Organizations that are ahead of the curve have been spending lots of money, time, and resources on this practice. Major tech giants like ecommerce, social networking, and FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) are heavily dependent on their data analytics solutions. A few examples of the outcomes of data analytics are customer 360-degree, real-time recommendations, fraud analytics, and predictive maintenance ...