Microsoft
Top Executive: CEO Satya Nadella
Microsoft, of course, is a long-time player in the big data software space with its SQL Server database and Power BI business analysis and data visualization tool.
Microsoft Azure has become a popular cloud platform for running big data applications and workloads. Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., also uses Azure as a platform for a number of its own big data offerings including the Azure Synapse Analytics data warehouse, HDInsight Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Lake Analytics and Azure Analysis Services.
