For us we have an enterprise of SQL users at all skill levels, and this product is very SQL friendly and extremely fast in creation of data aggregates and analysis. If you are an Azure storage user, considering using Lake Analytics over top of your blob or any other storage just adds complementary services and functions native to your existing architecture.
There's a bit of bias towards cloud with ADL Analytics. Depending upon a company's infra strategy and investment plans, there are some challenges with migration and integeration.
Not worth the time/effort/money if the organization doesn't have "Volume" of data. Cost effective only when daily loads exceed around 1million.
While training materials are available online, Adoption rate - Yet to pick up.
Azure Data Lake simplifies extensive data analysis. It runs Hadoop, HDInsight, and Data Lakes, and even complex queries run smoothly and quickly. We write queries to transform data and extract insights instead of configuring hardware. It can handle any size job by adjusting the power. Azure's servers, networking, and data entry are fantastic. It provides security and assured data access.