Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory is Microsoft’s cloud-based data integration service that enables organizations to create, schedule, and orchestrate data pipelines across on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud environments. With a code-free visual interface and support for over 100 built-in connectors, it simplifies ETL (extract, transform, load) and ELT processes, allowing users to ingest, prepare, and transform large volumes of structured and unstructured data from diverse sources such as SQL databases, Azure Blob Storage, Salesforce, and SAP.

The platform supports scalable data movement and transformation using mapping data flows, powered by Spark, and integrates seamlessly with Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, and Power BI for end-to-end analytics workflows. Monitoring, alerting, and Git integration ensure governance and operational reliability, making Azure Data Factory a central tool for modern data engineering and enterprise data orchestration.