Key buyer advantages of the Microsoft and MongoDB expanded partnership

This submit was co-authored by Patrick McCluskey, Vice President at MongoDB.

As we welcome the period of AI, it’s vital to do not forget that information is the gas that powers AI. With this understanding, it’s clear why our objective is to make Azure the perfect vacation spot for information. In Azure, prospects profit from a complete portfolio of database merchandise together with relational, non-relational, open supply, and caching options. We have now additionally established deep partnerships, just like the one we now have with MongoDB Inc., to allow digital transformation utilizing their databases as managed choices in Azure.

MongoDB is a number one information platform firm that offers builders an intuitive method to mannequin their information. We’ve partnered with MongoDB for years however this yr we deepened our partnership considerably, culminating in a multiyear strategic partnership settlement. We’re extremely pleased with the work we’ve completed collectively to make Azure an amazing place to run MongoDB Atlas. Previously six months alone, MongoDB has turn out to be one among our high performing Azure Market companions pushed by the adoption of the MongoDB Atlas on Azure pay-as-you-go self-service providing.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower everybody to realize extra, and we all know that our prospects like utilizing MongoDB to construct functions. In yr one among our strategic partnership, we collaborated with MongoDB to make it even simpler for our joint prospects to do extra with Microsoft companies and MongoDB Atlas on Azure. We’ve enabled builders to make use of MongoDB Atlas in 40+ Azure areas globally—with our most up-to-date new location being in Doha, Qatar, which we introduced final month at our Ignite convention. And we all know it’s not simply concerning the information heart, it’s additionally critically vital to make it straightforward for builders to get began with MongoDB Atlas on Azure. GitHub Copilot makes it straightforward to construct MongoDB functions on Azure as a result of its proficiency in making code ideas and we’re working collectively to additional enhance GitHub Copilot’s efficiency utilizing MongoDB schema, amongst different issues.

See how MongoDB and GitHub Copilot come collectively on this video.

We’ve already seen prospects reaping the advantages of our strategic partnership. For instance, our joint work with Temenos helped to allow their banking prospects to achieve record-high scale. And in one other case, Mural, a collaborative intelligence firm, shared their expertise of constructing with MongoDB Atlas and Microsoft Azure to assist their prospects collaborate higher and smarter.

MongoDB at Microsoft Ignite 2023

We proceed to make investments to enhance the shopper expertise of operating MongoDB Atlas on Azure. In November, at Microsoft Ignite 2023, Microsoft and MongoDB introduced three important integrations: Microsoft Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Cloth, and Entity Framework (EF) Core. Let’s take a look at how prospects can profit from every one.

1. Semantic Kernel is an open supply SDK that permits combining AI companies like OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Hugging Face with programming languages like C# and Python. At Ignite, MongoDB introduced native help for MongoDB Atlas Vector Search in Semantic Kernel. MongoDB Atlas Vector Search permits prospects to combine operational information and vectors in a unified and totally managed platform. Now, prospects can use Semantic Kernel to include Atlas Vector Search in functions. This permits, for instance, utilizing Atlas Vector Search to work together with retrieval-augmented technology (RAG) of their work with massive language fashions (LLMs), thereby decreasing the chance of AI hallucinations, amongst different advantages.
2. Microsoft Cloth can reshape how your groups work with information by bringing everybody collectively on a single, AI-powered platform constructed for the period of AI. MongoDB Atlas is the operational information layer for a lot of functions, these prospects use MongoDB Atlas to retailer information from inner enterprise functions, customer-facing companies, and third-party APIs throughout a number of channels. With connectors for Microsoft Cloth pipelines and Dataflow Gen2, our prospects can now mix MongoDB Atlas information with relational information from conventional functions and unstructured information from sources like logs, clickstreams, and extra. At Microsoft Ignite, we noticed thrilling bulletins making this integration seamless and straightforward to make use of for MongoDB prospects. In the course of the first keynote, Microsoft introduced that Microsoft Cloth is now typically accessible, and shared a brand new frictionless method so as to add and handle current cloud information warehouses and databases, like MongoDB, in Cloth referred to as Mirroring. Now, MongoDB prospects can replicate a snapshot of their database to OneLake and OneLake will robotically hold this reproduction in sync in close to real-time. You’ll be able to learn extra on find out how to unlock the worth of information in MongoDB Atlas with the clever analytics of Microsoft Cloth right here.
3. Tens of millions of builders rely upon C# to put in writing their functions, and a big share of those use Entity Framework (EF) Core, a light-weight, extensible, open supply and cross-platform model of the favored Entity Framework information entry know-how. MongoDB introduced that MongoDB Supplier for EF Core is now accessible in Public Preview. This makes it attainable for builders utilizing EF Core to construct C#/.NET functions with MongoDB whereas persevering with to make use of their most well-liked APIs and design patterns.

In every case, we’ve labored intently with MongoDB to make sure builders, information engineers, and information scientists can simply join their MongoDB information to Microsoft companies.

A yr of strengthened collaboration

These new integrations comply with a banner yr of collaboration between Microsoft and MongoDB. Past Microsoft Ignite, we’ve shared a variety of wonderful developer information:

• The MongoDB for VS Code Extension was made typically accessible in August 2023. VS Code is the world’s hottest built-in improvement setting (IDE), and builders downloaded the MongoDB extension over 1 million occasions throughout its public preview. This free, downloadable extension makes it straightforward for builders to construct functions and handle information in MongoDB straight from VS Code.
• MongoDB built-in with a variety of companies throughout the Microsoft Clever Knowledge Platform (MIDP), together with:
  • Azure Synapse Analytics, to make it simpler to research operational information
  • Microsoft Purview, so customers can connect with and safeguard MongoDB information
  • Energy BI, making it attainable for information analysts to natively rework, analyze, and share dashboards that incorporate dwell MongoDB Atlas information
  • Knowledge Federation: Atlas Knowledge Federation can now be deployed in Microsoft Azure and helps Microsoft Azure Blob Storage in non-public preview.

• Collectively printed tutorials and extra masking:

It has been an amazing yr for Microsoft and MongoDB, collectively making it simpler for organizations of all sizes to do extra with their information.

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