Andrew Snodgrass

Andrew Snodgrass

Analyst

Andrew analyzes and writes about Microsoft's data management, business intelligence, and machine learning solutions, as well as aspects of licensing

Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Andrew was vice president of IT for a global Fortune 500 company, where he directed overall IT activities and strategy for the company‘s global operations, including work sharing and collaboration, application design and development, communications, data center operations, security, compliance, procurement, and vendor management. Andrew also started and sold an independent software firm specializing in disparate data integration, cleansing, and analysis.

Andrew received a B.B.A. in information systems from Boise State University and an M.B.A. from Colorado State University.

Latest Content by Andrew Snodgrass

  Roadmap
October 20, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass
Fabric Overview Roadmap Roadmap for Fabric, an end-to-end data and analytics platform, built primarily on existing Azure services and Azure Data Lake Storage.
  Roadmap
October 20, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass
Fabric Data Engineering Roadmap Roadmap for Fabric Data Engineering, an Apache Spark development environment where data engineers can collect, store, and process large volumes...
  Roadmap
October 20, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass
Fabric Data Warehouse Roadmap Roadmap for Fabric Data Warehouse, a SQL-based database solution where developers can create and manage traditional relational data warehouses to...
  Roadmap
October 20, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass
Power BI Roadmap Roadmap for Power BI, Microsoft’s family of business intelligence offerings that include online and on-premises components.
  Roadmap
October 20, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass
Cosmos DB Roadmap Roadmap for Azure Cosmos DB, a hosted NoSQL (Not only SQL) and relational offering that supports multiple data models and...
  Analyst Report
October 20, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass
Dynamics 365 License Compliance Enforcement Delayed to at Least Jan. 2026 Microsoft has delayed plans to lock the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations front door until at least Jan. 15, 2025;...
  In Brief
October 20, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass
Power BI Ending Integration with SharePoint Online Lists in Dec. 2025 Microsoft is retiring Power Bi integration with SharePoint Online Lists and Libraries starting Nov. 2025, leaving users very little time...
  Roadmap
October 16, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass
Synapse Analytics Roadmap Roadmap for Azure Synapse Analytics, a multipurpose analytics and data warehouse service designed for organizations with SQL Server and Apache...
  Roadmap
Updated: October 13, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass
Databricks Roadmap Roadmap for Azure Databricks, a cloud service that simplifies deployment and scaling of Spark machine learning workloads.
  Roadmap
October 10, 2025 · by Andrew Snodgrass
Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Roadmap Roadmap entry for Managed Instance for Cassandra, which is a cloud service supporting current community editions of Apache Cassandra.