September 2021 Summaries

CData is pleased to announce the release of its new comprehensive data connectivity for Workday, enabling organizations to access their Workday data in various key reporting, visualization, and data management solutions. The new CData release provides native Power BI & Tableau connectors, Excel Add-Ins, Python-based connectivity, ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET drivers, as well as embeddable SSIS components for building live Workday flows to SQL Server. With these tools, users can now connect, integrate, and automate Workday integration across all of their organization's applications, accessing data in Power BI, Tableau, Excel, Python-centric platforms, and SQL Server.

In today's fast-paced business environments, companies are leveraging collaboration software platforms like Jira and SharePoint to streamline HR and finance processes, enabling teams to work more efficiently and effectively. By connecting these platforms with CData technologies, organizations can empower their human resources and finance teams with real-time data, automate reporting and analytics, and gain valuable insights into their operations. With standardized connectors and easy-to-use integration tools, companies can maximize their investments in collaboration software, simplify migration processes, and get better access to their collaboration data. By doing so, they can unlock new levels of productivity, innovation, and growth.

CData's connectivity solutions enable organizations to make the most of their data, wherever it is, by connecting work across multiple apps and services, allowing teams to easily act on tasks assigned to them using all information available, and analysts to create comprehensive reports on complete data. CData's out-of-the-box, standardized connectivity software does the complicated integration work for you, freeing your team from stale analytics, costly development work, and repetitive data migration tasks. By connecting collaboration platforms like Jira and SharePoint to various apps and services, teams can improve data and project management, simplify business functions, deliver quality customer success experiences, and more.

A hybrid cloud environment is a mix of private cloud, public cloud, and on-premises data storage and IT systems. Many organizations adopt this approach to comply with data privacy regulations and secure their data. However, integrating data between on-premises and cloud environments can be challenging due to the need to traverse firewalls. CData Sync offers a solution for this challenge by providing a lightweight ETL/ELT tool that can run anywhere, without requiring complex security configuration or IT involvement. It enables organizations to control which data moves where, perform transformations before loading data into a target destination, and reduce latency by performing incremental loads close to the data source. With CData Sync, organizations can easily integrate their on-premises and cloud environments, without the need for VPNs, agents, or complex firewall rules.

Solving Data Proliferation and Connectivity Challenges for BI & Analytics is a critical step for organizations to transform their operations and build a highly enabled workforce. Many companies face data access challenges, including fragmented data, non-standard data models, wasted time chasing down data, endless integration maintenance, and IT teams being overwhelmed. To break through the data chasm, organizations need to create an enterprise-wide and connected ecosystem of data, enabling direct access for analysts and data scientists, and freeing up IT teams from custom-coded integrations. By doing so, they can empower their team to generate insights needed to power decision-making, ultimately leading to a data-driven organization.