Azure ‎Data Lake Storage Gen2 makes Azure storage the foundation for building enterprise Data Lakes on Azure. If you want to build analytics and reporting on top of the business events or data feeds data, you can configure a business events endpoint in Finance and Operations to emit data events to Azure storage or Data Lakes.
Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Data Lake integration also uses Azure Data Lake Gen 2 to stage master and transaction data in the CDM folder format. We will discuss this more in Chapter 10, Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Reporting.
The CDM folder is a folder in a Data Lake that conforms to specific, well-defined, and standardized metadata structures and self-describing data. These folders facilitate metadata discovery and interoperability between data producers and data consumers.