Analytics Platform System (APS) is Microsoft’s answer to a Modern Data Warehouse. Organizations are moving away from traditional data warehouses due to thier limited ability to handle and scale Big Data. Data is now part of the critical business decision making process, with social media, streaming and sensor data growing exponentially it makes it harder to provide analytical insights to consumers. Our Modern Data Warehouse is capable of analyzing relational as well as Big Data. APS is the turnkey appliance based data platform that hosts both Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) and HDInsight (Apache Hadoop on Windows).
PDW is built on massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture that allows customers to query data at lightning speeds. HDInsight on the other hand allows customers to query unstructured data. This makes APS the perfect blend to process structured as well as unstructured data. The highly available architecture of the appliance makes the monitoring and maintenance easier than ever before.