We are excited to announce that Microsoft has once again been positioned as a leader in Gartner's 2018 Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions for Analytics (DMSA). Gartner has also positioned Microsoft as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, and in the Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. This is an exciting milestone, and it is Microsoft’s perspective that this underscores our global leadership and its relentless commitment to innovation across the data estate.
Gartner defines DMSA as a complete software system that supports and manages data in one or more file management systems (usually databases). DMSA includes specific optimizations to support analytical processing. This includes, but is not limited to, support for relational processing, nonrelational processing (such as graph processing), and machine learning and programming languages such as Python and R.
Read more about it in the Azure blog.