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Unlock your data initiatives with live access to the data users need within any app or platform.
Provide safe, governed access to the data your teams need in a no/low-code interface, so they can access live data within the app, tool, or spreadsheet of their choice, accelerating analytics, business intelligence, and reporting.
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API:
APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, facilitate communication and interaction between different software applications. They define the rules and protocols for how software components should interact, allowing developers to access functionality and data from other services or platforms. APIs enable integration, automation, and the creation of new applications and services.
Looker:
Looker is a powerful data analytics platform that allows businesses to easily explore, analyze, and share data insights. With its intuitive interface and robust features, Looker enables users to create custom reports, dashboards, and visualizations to make data-driven decisions. It helps organizations unlock the full potential of their data.
Discover, blend, and access data from API in Looker
CData Connect Cloud provides a collaborative. live data access and connection platform that empowers data users to use data securely in their preferred tools, while maintaining data governance controls for technical experts. Connect Cloud provides a live copy of the data without actual data movement. Enable every stakeholder in the organization to always have access to the data they need without constantly submitting request tickets.
- Sophisticated connection to API with built-in query engines that enable advanced connection capabilities, which won't break over time.
- Data governance controls to protect data in API with transparent role-based access rules.
- Create and save purpose-built views of data for specific uses in Looker that update with changes to API.
- Work with virtual dataset views of API data instead of entire tables and datasets.
- Blend, customize, and rearrange data in Connect Cloud so its ready for Looker.
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API to Looker Features
No data movement required
Ditch the complicated ETL/ELT data integration tools and skip right to using data in the tool you need.
Powerful user-based access controls for centralized data governance
Grant unlimited self-serve data access to users without the possibility of accidentally viewing, altering, or deleting data.
Any data, any application – available in familiar rows and columns
Connect Cloud does the hard work of translating any source connection to tables that can be read by SQL or analyzed in a spreadsheet.
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No complicated data movement, ETL, or data integration required. Enable access to data directly from the data systems you already use. Select your preferred tool below to learn more.
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