In response to developer feedback, Microsoft is taking a page from the growing visual, low-code development approach to simplify Big Data analytics in the cloud with Azure Data Factory ... lets ...

The second major version of Azure Data Factory, Microsoft's cloud service ... The core unit of work in ADF is a pipeline, made up of a visual flow of individual activities. Activities are little ...

Azure Data Factory, Microsoft’s cloud-based data integration service, gained two new components earlier this year that enter preview this week: Mapping Data Flows and Wrangling Data Flows.

Also announced was a preview of new Mapping Data Flow capabilities in Azure Data Factory. [Click on image for larger view.] Azure Data Explorer (source: Microsoft). Azure Data Lake Storage, built on ...

The company also launched a preview of Mapping Data Flow in Azure Data Factory, a visual, no-code app that enables developers to build “data transformations.” “We always strive to make it ...

As for Mapping Data Flows, this builds on Azure Synapse Analytics’ existing Copy Activity functionality, improving the way Microsoft 365 data is readied for analysis. Mapping Data Flows will ...