CData Blog


Value Added Network graphic
November 14, 2023

The Problem with VANs for EDI and B2B Integration

by Matt Springfield

Value-added networks, or VANs provide a managed IT consulting service to transfer and integrate your data with external parties like trading partners. Self-service B2B integration platforms like CData Arc provide all the technical capabilities that VANs offer, including data transformation and transfer via standardized protocols.

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September 25, 2023

Santa Clara University Analyzes Student and Admission Data from Workday Directly in Tableau

by Danielle Bingham

Santa Clara University relies on CData to access Workday data in their preferred reporting platforms to better understand historical program trends and improve student engagement.

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September 20, 2023

Workday Wednesday: BJ’s Improves Employee Retention by Integrating Workday Data with Tableau

by Danielle Bingham

BJ’s Wholesale Club turns to CData to provide a simplified way to pull Workday data directly into Tableau dashboards for easier analysis and sharing.

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Query Execution
August 16, 2023

CData Architecture: Query Execution

by Tomas Restrepo

In Part 4 of his blog series on CData Driver architecture, Tomas Restrepo focuses on the data access stack, as well as provider implementation.

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August 11, 2023

Capitalize Uses CData to Simplify Their Customers’ Workday Analytics Processes

by Danielle Bingham

Capitalize’s clients take advantage of CData’s out-of-the-box solutions to connect to Workday Financials and HCM data as if they were connecting to a generic database, enabling almost every tool to gather real-time, live data from Workday.

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Core Driver Services
August 08, 2023

CData Architecture: Core Driver Services

by Tomas Restrepo

In the third post in his series, CData CTO Tomas Restrepo covers some of the services implemented in the CData Driver code to simplify the development of our new drivers.

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July 31, 2023

Modernize Your MarTech Data Strategy with Cloud Data Management Solutions

by Lori Goetz

Managing an ever-growing MarTech ecosystem and leveraging growing volumes of data to create meaningful reporting processes has become increasingly difficult for marketers and the IT teams that support them. CData real-time data connectivity solutions can help your marketing team access, analyze, and leverage their data more effectively.

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CData Architecture
July 06, 2023

CData Architecture: Supporting Multiple Technologies

by Tomas Restrepo

This second installment of our driver technology blog series gives you a glimpse into our driver architecture. This architecture allows us to create CData Drivers that function consistently across technologies, with updates and improvements being supported across the board.

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June 05, 2023

Driver in Focus: NoSQL Database Connectivity for Real-Time Reporting

by Lori Goetz

NoSQL databases have no shortage of challenges. CData connectivity solutions translate NoSQL data in real-time into a logical view of tables and columns, essentially, making the data look relational, using a variety of techniques with out-of-the-box connectivity from all of your favorite BI analytics and reporting tools.

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