Solutions & Use Cases

Streamline HR Finance through Collaboration
September 23, 2021

Drivers in Focus Part 2: Streamline HR & Finance through Collaboration

Drivers in Focus Part 2: Streamline HR Finance through Collaboration In the first part of our Drivers in Focus series on collaboration software, we highlighted the value in connecting to your collaboration data for reporting and analytics on marketing and customer success efforts. In our s...

Collaboration Tools for Empowered Marketing
September 17, 2021

Drivers in Focus Part 1: Collaboration Tools for Empowered Marketing & Customer Success

Drivers in Focus Part 1: Collaboration Tools for Empowered Marketing Customer Success Collaboration technology has become increasingly vital to successful businesses operations – especially in today's world of remote work. Collaboration software helps organizations improve data and project...

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September 1, 2021

Solving Data Proliferation and Connectivity Challenges for BI & Analytics

Solving Data Proliferation and Connectivity Challenges for BI Analytics Data is the key to digitally transforming your organization. Modern business leaders are chasing the promise of illuminated decision-making models and a deep understanding of their customers. Organizations therefore ne...

Modern Data Pipelines with CData Sync
August 24, 2021

Modern Data Pipelines with CData Sync

The evolution of the citizen integrator and data engineer are a driving force on the way data pipelines are being delivered across today s modern data ecosystem. Traditional Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) technologies are expensive to buy, configure, and maintain. These solutions are desi...

Enabling Low-Code App Development through Cloud Data Connectivity
August 18, 2021

Enabling Low-Code App Development through Cloud Data Connectivity

In a 2020 report, Gartner projected that by 2023 over half of enterprises will have adopted low-code app development as part of their digital transformation strategy. But between developer shortages, lack of data access, and skill gaps , it becomes challenging to enable citizen developers...

Enhanced Connectivity from Looker Studio and Google Sheets
August 12, 2021

Enhanced Connectivity from Looker Studio and Google Sheets

Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio) and Google Sheets are popular user-friendly, cloud-based platforms for working with, analyzing, and reporting on data. While connecting to data housed in the Google ecosystem is straightforward, getting data from external sources can be a challenge. CData Connect Cloud ...

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...

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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...

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 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 ...