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Enabling Self Service BI and Analytics Through Cloud Data Connectivity
August 2, 2021

Enabling Self Service BI and Analytics Through Cloud Data Connectivity

Analytics and business intelligence platforms have evolved to provide self-service usage for line of business users to gain insights through data visualization and reporting. With modern BI tools, every stakeholder can create charts, reports, and dashboards from their business data. And t...

Support DataOps Agility with Data APIs
July 23, 2021

Support DataOps Agility with Data APIs

Data fragmentation has become a major roadblock for many enterprises on their journey to digital transformation. Gaining business insights from data is more crucial than ever, but as cloud-based infrastructure that data has become more decentralized and difficult to manage. Data virtualiz...

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July 22, 2021

Reverse ETL with Salesforce and SQL Server

As data usage grows many organizations turn to data warehousing in order to consolidate data for analytics, reporting, governance and decision support. Modern warehousing solutions are flexible, faster, more scalable, and more economical than ever before. But data warehousing is not witho...

Cloud-to-Cloud Integration
July 21, 2021

Free Webinar: Cloud-to-Cloud Integration – Making the Most of Cloud Data Tools

For many years, businesses have relied on on-premises solutions, tools, and applications for business intelligence, reporting, and analytics. But according to a 2020 study by IDG, 69% of businesses have shifted their business data to the cloud, with another 18% planning to implement cloud...

Subsurface LIVE
July 20, 2021

Join us for Subsurface LIVE

We are pleased to be a Gold sponsor for Subsurface LIVE Summer 2021 , July 21-22, where you can join your peers and other industry leaders as we take a deep dive below the surface of the cloud data lake. Register today and save a virtual seat for our Birds-of-a-Feather session on Cloud Da...

Web APIs Growth Chart
July 15, 2021

Future-Proof Your Salesforce Integrations with CData

The use of APIs is growing exponentially. According to Programmable Web, a directory of public APIs, the volume of public APIs has grown from fewer than 500 to more than 24,000 from 2008 to 2021. That is staggering growth, and the pace of API innovations show no signs of slowing down. Wha...

ETL and ELT
July 6, 2021

ETL vs. ELT: Which is better? 6 key differences

To bring their diffuse data into their data warehouse, organizations typically leverage an ETL or ELT process using a dedicated data pipeline. In this article, we define and compare the six main differences between ETL and ELT processes to help you determine which is right in various data integration scenarios.

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June 30, 2021

3 Integration Strategies for Data Analytics and Business Intelligence

When freely available to your key stakeholders, data can give you a 360-degree view of your customers and your enterprise to help you make solid business decisions. To make the most of their data, organizations need to invest in data connectivity infrastructure. Integration Options for th...

June 30, 2021

CData Arc V21 Released

We are excited to announce the latest release of CData Arc Version 2021 . Extend CData Arc with custom connectivity, link your entire cloud application ecosystem, and simplify user management for scalable self-service integrations. The latest CData Arc release is packed full of new enterpris...

June 28, 2021

CData Connect 2021 Released

CData is proud to announce the latest release of CData Connect 2021. Our comprehensive data connectivity platform now boasts powerful new features, including query federation, custom schemas, and derived views. In the latest 2021 update, we have added powerful new features that expand the...

June 25, 2021

Too Much Data in Your Warehouse for Power BI – Now What?

As more organizations lean into data-driven digital transformation efforts, lines of business are increasingly demanding access to their data to gain actionable insights into performance and business health. In previous articles, we've discussed how consolidating your disparate data into ...

data warehouse
June 22, 2021

6 Best Data Warehousing Solutions for BI & Analytics

Data warehousing is a popular, powerful way to overcome data fragmentation challenges. At a high level, the process involves two steps. First, you must centralize data generated by your enterprise applications and systems into a common data warehouse. Then, you give your data analysts and decision-makers unified access to that data so they may perform analytics processes using their chosen data analytics tools.