Author: Jerod Johnson

January 17, 2019

Instant Access to the New Amazon DocumentDB

Last week, Amazon Web Services introduced Amazon DocumentDB , a fast, scalable, and highly available document database that is designed to be compatible with your existing MongoDB applications and tools. Since Amazon DocumentDB is built for compatibility with MongoDB 3.6, you get turnkey ...

January 9, 2019

Expanding Data Connectivity in Microsoft Power BI, Flow, and PowerApps

Microsoft offers a full suite of low-code solutions for building business applications and working with data. From the Power BI service for self-service analytics, to PowerApps and Flow for building applications, workflows, and tasks that consume, move, transform, or otherwise work with e...

December 18, 2018

Load NetSuite Data into Your Snowflake Data Warehouse

In previous articles, we discussed how you can replicate data to Google BigQuery and Amazon S3 . In this article, we review the features and benefits of CData Sync as a replication solution for NetSuite users and link to a short tutorial for replicating your NetSuite data to Snowflake , a...

December 6, 2018

Consolidating Enterprise Data to a Data Lake on Amazon S3 with CData Sync

We recently discussed the benefits and challenges involved in building a data warehouse and gave an example with Google BigQuery . BigQuery is only one of many popular solutions for data warehousing. Lately, flat-file ingestion-based destinations have become popular due to their ubiquity ...

November 30, 2018

Data Warehousing with Google BigQuery and CData Sync

The popularity of data warehousing continues to surge as tools for business intelligence (BI), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) are helping organizations realize new business value from their enterprise data. Advances in data warehousing, and subsequent tooling, is ...

July 25, 2018

Build Dynamic Power BI Dashboards Using Live Data

The addition of custom connectors has dramatically broadened the connectivity potential for Power BI users. Coming off of the Microsoft Business Applications Summit, we are pleased to announce the release of CData Power BI Connectors . Our new Power BI Connectors enable access to live dat...

April 10, 2018

Build Dynamic Tableau Dashboards Using Live Couchbase Data

Using the CData ODBC Driver for Couchbase, enterprises can unite the powerful visualization and reporting features of Tableau with their Couchbase NoSQL data stores to build dynamic dashboards based on live Couchbase data. Thanks to the innovative features of the CData ODBC Driver, users ...

March 13, 2018

Virtual Database Access to Delimited Files (CSV/TSV) Stored Remotely

Delimited files are commonly used when importing and exporting data with relational databases and other data stores. As cloud storage services like Google Drive, Box.com, Amazon S3, and more evolve, enterprises are increasingly using them as repositories for data that has already been col...

March 1, 2018

Connecting Data To Machine Learning & AI

Connecting Data To Machine Learning AI Data that has been collected, collated, and cleansed is ripe for analysis and insight generation. Advances in machine learning and AI are helping deliver on the promises of augmented analytics to produce actionable insights. Pairing machine learning t...

February 20, 2018

Data Mining Social Media with CData FireDAC Connectors

The recent webinar by Embarcadero walks through using the CData Connectors for FireDAC to connect to Twitter and Facebook data in Delphi. Check out our FireDAC Component product page for more information. Download a free, 30-day trial of the Twitter Components or Facebook Components and u...

January 16, 2018

The Best Way to Embed Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of solving a growing number of use cases. It centrally stores your data so you can discover the expected and uncover the unexpected. CData Software produces standards-based drivers for Elasticsearch (and over 100 ...

January 11, 2018

ODBC Connectivity to Airtable Data

Airtable is a spreadsheet-database hybrid, where the features of a database (typed fields, lookups, relationships between records, etc) are applied to a spreadsheet. By using the CData ODBC Driver for JSON with the Airtable REST API , you gain ODBC connectivity to your Airtable data, easi...