Luke and Gabi are members of the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform team that works with customers and partners to make Power BI and Synapse adoption more successful. Both are dealing with requirements for Data Integration workloads. Some are met, some aren’t (at least fully).

And both are dealing with biases about the two products and solutions. Synapse is the pro tool, more powerful but also more complicated. Power BI is the citizen developer solution, but not up to enterprise workloads. And this might be how everything started. But is that still true?

Let’s compare the Power BI and Synapse data integration offerings; what are their strengths? What are the gotchas? And why – citizen developers and pro developers should be aware of both!
And the weaknesses you might want to ask? Let’s see if between the two products and their offerings any weaknesses remain… 😉