CData Power BI Connectors
- 1. © 2018 CData Software Inc. | www.cdata.com CData Power BI Connectors Jerod Johnson - Technology Evangelist jerodj@cdata.com @jeRodimusPrime www.cdata.com
- 2. © 2018 CData Software Inc. | www.cdata.com Agenda • Introduction • Problem: Disparate Data in Power BI • Solution: CData Power BI Connectors • Demos
- 3. © 2018 CData Software Inc. | www.cdata.com About CData Software Bi-directional access to live App, Database, & Web API Data through open standards CData Software is a leading provider of data access and connectivity solutions. Our mission is to simplify the way that users and applications connect with data. We specialize in the development of Drivers and data access technologies for real-time access to online or on- premise applications, databases, and Web APIs.
- 4. © 2018 CData Software Inc. | www.cdata.com We Make APIs Look Like Databases Enable real-time data integration with hundreds of applications, databases, and Web APIs DRIVERS & ADAPTERS By wrapping APIs in fully standards-compliant interfaces, like ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET etc. we make data available to any context where a traditional database can be used.
- 5. © 2018 CData Software Inc. | www.cdata.com Not only ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, but also native Drivers for every major integration platform (Microsoft, Mulesoft, Informatica, etc.). DRIVER & ADAPTER TECHNOLOGIES Robust SQL-92 Engine seamlessly supporting bulk operations, push-down, dynamic schema and metadata discovery, and unmatched performance. DEEP INTEGRATION Largest number of supported data sources in the industry. 100+ DATA SOURCES & GROWING Direct real-time access to live data. No dependency on any cloud services or other intermediaries. DIRECT REAL-TIME ACCESS What CData Offers Top BI, ETL, Data Integration, Data Virtualization, and Data Warehousing vendors choose CData
- 6. © 2018 CData Software Inc. | www.cdata.com Live Access to Disparate Data? Power BI Only Supports Import Connections via ODBC • Growth in business leads to increasingly decentralized data • Power BI offers robust ODBC connectivity Import only Fast visualizations Static data (Online) Scheduled refresh required
- 7. © 2018 CData Software Inc. | www.cdata.com CData Power BI Connectors Connect to 110+ Data Sources Using DirectQuery • Practically identical to ODBC setup • DirectQuery available • 110+ on-premises and cloud sources • Optimized data processing • Query push-down functionality • SQL to NoSQL
- 8. © 2018 CData Software Inc. | www.cdata.com Powerful SQL Abstraction Full-featured and consistent SQL access to any supported data source 3 Comprehensive SQL-92 Engine Supports a rich SQL syntax across all of our drivers, deeply nested queries, and an extensive set of SQL filters and formulas. Metadata Discovery Full support for Metadata provides extensive schema discovery capabilities. Explore tables, columns, keys, etc. based on user identity. Replication & Caching Embedded commands make it easy to copy data to local and cloud data stores such as Oracle, SQL Server, Google Cloud SQL, etc. String, Date, and Numeric Functions Include 50 plus functions that can manipulate column values into the desired result. Popular examples include Regex, JSON, and XML processing functions. Collaborative Query Processing Enhance the data source's capabilities by additional client-side processing, when needed, to enable analytic summaries of data such as SUM, AVG, MAX, MIN, etc. Embedded Remoting MySQL and TDS wire protocol hosting offer seamless Linked Servers access and remote connectivity from other standard Drivers. 3 3 3 3 3
- 9. © 2018 CData Software Inc. | www.cdata.com Big Data and NoSQL C Relational Database C Office & Spreadsheets C Marketing, Ads, & Analytics C Amazon Athena Q2 Foxpro, Clipper, Dbase ✓ Active Directory ✓ Bing Ads ✓ Amazon DynamoDB ✓ IBM DB2* Evernote Q2 DoubleClick Campaign Manager ✓ Amazon Redshift ✓ IBM Informix Excel ✓ DoubleClick For Publishers ✓ Apache Cassandra* ✓ JDBC-ODBC Bridge ✓ Excel Online ✓ Exact Online ✓ Apache Drill Microsoft SQL Server* ✓ Gmail ✓ Facebook ✓ Apache HBase ✓ MySQL ✓ Google Calendar ✓ Google AdWords ✓ Apache Hive* ✓ Netezza Google Contacts ✓ Google Analytics ✓ Apache Phoenix OData ✓ Google Directory ✓ Hubspot ✓ Apache Spark SQL* ✓ Oracle Database Q3 Google Sheets ✓ Instagram ✓ Azure Table Storage ✓ Pervasive SQL (Btrieve) JIRA ✓ MailChimp ✓ Cloudera Impala Q3 Pivotal Greenplum ✓ Microsoft Project ✓ Marketo ✓ Couchbase ✓ PostgreSQL ✓ Microsoft SharePoint ✓ Oracle Eloqua ✓ Elasticsearch ✓ SAP Sybase* Q2 SharePoint Excel Services ✓ Salesforce Chatter ✓ Google BigQuery ✓ SQL Server Analysis Services (OLAP) Q2 Slack ✓ Salesforce Einstein Analytics Q2 Google Cloud Spanner Q4 Teradata Q3 Smartsheet ✓ Salesforce Marketing Cloud Q2 IBM Cloudant ✓ ZenDesk Q2 SendGrid ✓ Microsoft DocumentDB ✓ Splunk Q2 MongoDB ✓ Twitter ✓ Pivotal HAWQ YouTube Data & Analytics ✓ Presto Q3 Redis ✓ SAP HANA Q4 Supported Data Sources
- 10. © 2018 CData Software Inc. | www.cdata.com CRM Systems C Accounting Systems C Payments, Ecommerce, & Finance C File Formats & Transfer C ActCRM Q2 FreshBooks ✓ Authorize.NET ✓ Amazon S3 Q2 Microsoft Dynamics CRM ✓ Intacct ✓ eBay ✓ CSV ✓ NetSuite ✓ Microsoft GP ✓ E*TRADE ✓ FTP / SFTP ✓ Oracle Sales Cloud ✓ Microsoft NAV ✓ Magento ✓ JSON ✓ Oracle Service Cloud QuickBooks Desktop ✓ OFX ✓ REST ✓ Salesforce.com* ✓ QuickBooks Online ✓ Open Exchange Rates ✓ XML ✓ ServiceMax QuickBooks POS ✓ PayPal ✓ ServiceNow ✓ SAP Concur Q2 Quandl ✓ Others C SugarCRM ✓ Xero Accounting ✓ Shopify ✓ Bing Search ✓ SuiteCRM ✓ Square ✓ GitHub ✓ VeevaCRM Stripe ✓ Google Search ✓ ZohoCRM ✓ Twilio ✓ Wordpress Q2 Dropbox Q3 Box Q3 Supported Data Sources
- 11. © 2018 CData Software Inc. | www.cdata.com Demonstration Connect to Data and Visualize using the CData Power BI Connectors • Examples: Facebook OAuth JSON/Rest (Airtable) SQL to NoSQL Dynamics Online / Salesforce Query push-down
- 12. © 2018 CData Software Inc. | www.cdata.com Questions?
Editor's Notes
- #5: So what do we do? We make APIs look like databases. With Power BI, you typically connect to a database (or a short list of supported non-db sources) to create your visualizations. If your data is in a SaaS or other applications, you often had to replicate to a db. No longer.