Glossary
Synapse Link
By Emil Björk · Microsoft business apps consultant, Gothenburg
Microsoft's managed pipeline that streams Dataverse and Finance/SCM data into a lakehouse for analytics.
Synapse Link is Microsoft's managed near-real-time pipeline that streams Dataverse (and, in a separate variant, Finance and Supply Chain Management) change data into a customer-accessible lakehouse — historically Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, now increasingly Microsoft Fabric's OneLake. Once configured per environment, Dataverse continuously writes Delta-Parquet snapshots of selected tables to the lake without replicating into a customer-managed integration tier. Downstream consumers — Power BI, Fabric notebooks, SQL endpoints, custom analytics — read from the lake without touching the operational system. Synapse Link replaces the older Export to Data Lake and Bring Your Own Database (BYOD) patterns and is the recommended analytics path for Dynamics 365.
Related terms
Mentioned in these guides
- Architecture decision records for Dynamics 365
- Azure Data Factory with Dynamics 365
- Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse
- Backup strategy for Dynamics 365
- Capacity planning for Dynamics 365
- Change tracking and delta queries in Dataverse
- CQRS pattern for Dynamics 365
- Custom services and OData endpoints in F&O
- Data lake export for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations
- Dataverse storage types explained
- Disaster recovery and backups in Dynamics 365
- Data entities and the Data Management Framework
- Reporting tools in Dynamics 365 Finance
- Student information system integration for Dynamics 365
- Utilisation reporting for professional services
- Procurement transparency for the public sector
- Vendor performance tracking for the public sector
- Finance and Operations and the Power Platform
- How Dynamics 365 apps connect
- Bring-your-own-storage patterns for Dataverse
- Integrating Dataverse with Microsoft Fabric Link
- Integrating Dynamics 365 with Azure services
- Integrating Finance and Operations with Databricks
- Integrating Finance and Operations with Snowflake
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