Organizations are dealing with unprecedented amounts of data, and while this data has the potential to help drive more informed business decisions and facilitate AI projects, data silos can arise and prevent companies from realizing the true potential of their data. One solution to this challenge is Microsoft Fabric, a platform that allows data from multiple different sources to be unified in a single data lake where it can be connected to different analytics and reporting tools, like Power BI.
The Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Connector makes it easy to connect to REST APIs using ODBC or JDBC without writing custom code. At the heart of this capability is the Autonomous REST Composer, a powerful UI tool that helps users quickly create REST configuration files, or .REST files.
BI professionals celebrated the MongoDB announcement for a new BI Connector in Q4 2015. Now that you have multiple options, let’s understand how each one works.