2018 Data Connectivity Annual Report
Research on the latest trends and challenges in database technologies.
The 2018 report benchmarks how organizations are handling the rapidly changing landscape of disruptive data sources, takes an in-depth look at where organizations are on their data connectivity journey and uncovers the challenges they face.
Key findings include:
- NoSQL adoption increased from 57% to 68% and big data from 61% to 68%
- 44% are challenged with integrating cloud data with on-premises data
- Tableau (22%), Power BI (18%) and Qlik (16%) are leading the data visualization market
- Rapid cloud adoption is driving the need for real-time hybrid connectivity
- Businesses are opening analytics to address the increased demand for data visualization and complex analytics
And much more…
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2018 Data Connectivity Annual Report
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Data APIs: Gateway to DataDriven Operation and Digital Transformation
In today’s digital business landscape, data is fragmented and scattered across various systems. Pulling all this data together is a significant challenge, and with businesses constantly implementing new data sources, cloud environments and other systems, integration complexities are multiplying quickly.
Enterprises have traditionally resorted to APIs to solve the point-to-point integration problems, but data scientists and data engineers have lost access to the raw tabular data and thus to analytics/BI. Data connectivity drivers (such as ODBC and JDBC connectors) effectively act as data APIs, enabling businesses to solve this unique challenge of exposing data for BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, Cognos, etc.
To learn more, check out this research paper from GigaOm.
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Data APIs: Gateway to DataDriven Operation and Digital Transformation
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How to REST-Enable Your Mainframe
Mainframes continue to play a key role in data storage for business-critical applications that can’t have downtime. However, today’s challenge is to safely access mainframe data for use across the enterprise, in custom applications, webpages and off-the-shelf app integration. That requires modernizing data access to IBM DB2 for z/OS.
Read this whitepaper to learn:
- Why REST, and by extension, OData, are the solution
- Options to REST-enable DB2 on z/OS
- The critical role DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline plays in REST-enabling IBM z/OS
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OData: The Fastest Way to RESTify Your Databases
REST APIs have become increasingly popular for accessing enterprise data from web and mobile applications. But are REST APIs good enough? You still need a different client codebase for every REST API in use, which can quickly become a technical burden.
Read this whitepaper to learn:
- Why you need to RESTify databases
- Why companies are using OData
- How your enterprise can RESTify your databases via OData
- What role DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline plays in this process
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OData: The Fastest Way to RESTify Your Databases
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Technical Whitepaper: OpenEdge Change Data Capture and the ETL Process
Keeping the multitude of data sources housed within an organization updated is a cumbersome and time intensive process. Having accurate data at your fingertips helps drive business success, and the ability to precisely capture changes and efficiently export and synchronize those changes with data repositories and warehouses enhances visibility and operational productivity.
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Technical Whitepaper: OpenEdge Change Data Capture and the ETL Process
Progress OpenEdge Change Data Capture (CDC), a new OpenEdge 11.7 feature enhancement, acts as a tracking mechanism that enables applications to implement a process that automatically logs changes made to user tables in an OpenEdge database. The data gathered through the change data capture process can be utilized by a category of tools commonly known as ETL (extract, transform, load) processes for analytics or reporting purposes. Learn how this data might be used to identify business trends using data housed in a data warehouse, whereby the accuracy of that data has been provided by OpenEdge CDC.
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Deliver Secure SQL Access for Enterprise APIs: For Enterprise Architects and ISVs
IT needs a fast way to SQL-enable their internal API layer for business intelligence.
Organizations are investing heavily in API layers to control authentication and data access from one place. However, enterprise data teams can’t access this data from their favorite BI tools such as IBM Cognos, OBIEE, TIBCO or MicroStrategy without complex custom coding.
As companies adopt multiple analytical and data management tools, SQL access to the enterprise API layer (or data access layer) is crucial. The ideal solution enables you to quickly build real-time access to your API layer from popular BI tools, while taking advantage of centralized API management capabilities.
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- How to how to quickly integrate your internal API layer into leading tools such as Microsoft Excel, SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos, Oracle Business Intelligence and others
- What to look for in a connector SDK for delivering SQL clients (ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and OLE-DB)
- Steps to deliver custom SQL connectivity in under five days
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Deliver Secure SQL Access for Enterprise APIs: For Enterprise Architects and ISVs
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Technical Whitepaper: Progress OpenEdge SQL - Connection Failover
Connection Failover enables an application to connect to an alternate or backup database server if the primary database server is unavailable due to hardware failure or traffic overload. This document provides an overview of Connection Failover for applications using the Progress® OpenEdge® SQL engine and the Progress DataDirect® Connect Series for ODBC and JDBC drivers.
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Technical Whitepaper: Progress OpenEdge SQL - Connection Failover
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2017 Data Connectivity Outlook Survey
Research on the latest trends in database technologies
SaaS Adoption Increases from 62% to 79%
That’s just one of the findings in our 4th annual survey, based on responses from 1,200 participants around the world.
Data continues to spread across a variety of sources. And SaaS adoption is increasing significantly, resulting in an explosion of cloud-created data.
Read the report to learn:
- Use of RDBMS, big data, NoSQL and SaaS
- Biggest data integration challenges
- How standards can help solve data integration challenges
- Current state of application adoption
- Firewall concerns and solutions for connecting cloud and ground
- Open analytics trend among ISVs
- Data compliance requirements across industries
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2017 Data Connectivity Outlook Survey
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Open vs. Embedded Analytics: Decision Criteria for Cloud ISVs
Which Strategy is Best for You and Your Customers?
Eckerson Group gives you the insight you need to make the best choice for supporting advanced analytics.
Cloud application vendors are under pressure to provide multi-faceted support for analytics. Today’s customers expect more than just static reports or dashboards—they want interactive visual experiences that illuminate key data and trends.
In this paper, leading data and analytics research firm Eckerson Group dives into the pros and cons of open and embedded analytics. Cloud application vendors can discover where each approach fits into their strategy and use this knowledge to deliver support for advanced analytics.
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- Advantages and disadvantages of each strategy from the customer’s perspective
- Whether to build or buy data connectivity to support analytics
- Recommendations for an analytics strategy that supports different types of users and companies.
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Open vs. Embedded Analytics: Decision Criteria for Cloud ISVs
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Progress Global Connected CRM Leaders
There’s wide criteria for selecting a customer relationship management (CRM) system. When looking at characteristics of “Connected CRMs,” organizations must consider how well it can access external data and integrate into existing operational and data analytics systems. As a vendor-neutral software vendor for standard connectors across popular CRMs, Progress offers a unique, under-the-hood view of CRMs.
In this paper, Progress provides a comprehensive ranking and analysis of popular CRM solutions including support for open data standards and external data strategy. Insights into CRM value to seamlessly streamline work and increase user effectiveness, recommended vendors to support integration and analytics for CRM investments are included.
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Progress Global Connected CRM Leaders
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Whitepaper: Data Modernization
Many legacy systems simply can’t support the new information-powered economy. They need to be modernized. How do you make the data available until the future environment is ready?
In this whitepaper, David Loshin, recognized thought leader in all things data, explains how to balance new technology acquisition with bridging technologies for data connectivity to extend the life of legacy systems as replacement applications are adopted.
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Whitepaper: Data Modernization
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Enterprise Data Connectivity: Build vs Buy?
Data is at the crux of all your major business decisions, which means data integration matters now more than ever before. Wherever your data exists—in the cloud, on-premises behind a firewall or some combination of both—you need to deliver real-time integration with enterprise applications. But do you buy connectivity or build a custom solution?
Download this whitepaper and learn about the obstacles and advantages of each approach.
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Enterprise Data Connectivity: Build vs Buy?
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IDC Report: The Future of Business Analytics
This sharp, visual IDC report delivers a concise view of business analytics software trends, including recent market developments around cloud-based and self-service software. The impact of cognitive computing solutions and disruption around data warehousing are explored along with long-term predictions:
- Emerging industry trends
- Buyer needs
- Competitive assessment
- Long-term market opportunities
This report is ideal for business executives, technical product managers and marketing intelligence professionals who want to understand how to thrive in the business analytics market and gain competitive advantage.
Companies featured include Teradata, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and more.
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IDC Report: The Future of Business Analytics
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Connectivity Solutions for All Your Data Sources
You can't fully leverage your data if you can't quickly and easily access it. Take a look at our standards-based data connectivity solutions that include the full range of relational, cloud, NoSQL and Big Data including ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET and OData. Maximize your data, wherever it resides.
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Connectivity Solutions for All Your Data Sources
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Whitepaper: 2016 Data Connectivity Survey
As with technology wars in the past —VHS versus Beta, Blu-ray versus HD DVD, or PS3 versus Xbox—the real winners are visionary managers that embrace technologies that are gaining the most traction.
Stay on top of the trends. Companies that bet on technology that falls to the wayside lose out with higher support and maintenance costs—and the ability to keep pace with an increasing avalanche of data.
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Whitepaper: 2016 Data Connectivity Survey
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The Fastest, Easiest Way to Integrate Oracle Systems with Salesforce
Are you struggling with integrating data in Oracle systems like Siebel and JD Edwards with Salesforce? Are you feeling pressure to deliver data-driven features to your Salesforce users? The best way to do that is with Salesforce Connect, which uses OData to integrate external data. But Salesforce Connect doesn’t provide OData connectivity to Oracle. Nor does Oracle play well with OData. What’s needed is a connectivity solution that combines OData services with built-in access to Oracle. In this whitepaper, we’ll take a look at Salesforce Connect, OData and what to look for in a real-time connectivity solution.
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The Fastest, Easiest Way to Integrate Oracle Systems with Salesforce
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Tutorial: Turbo-charge Application Performance to Oracle
This tutorial gives you everything you need to solve common performance problems and make your Oracle applications run more efficiently.
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Tutorial: Turbo-charge Application Performance to Oracle
In most applications, up to 90% of data access time is spent in the driver. That’s why Progress DataDirect drivers offer many performance tuning options that can add up to a 500% improvement in performance.
This tutorial gives you everything you need to solve common performance problems and make your Oracle applications run more efficiently.
Learn how to:
- Enable Oracle-specific tuning options
- Automatically reduce network traffic and system overhead
- Use Connection Pooling options to maximize resources
- Enable Bulk Loading of mass volumes of data
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Tutorial: Turbo-charge Application Performance to DB2
This tutorial gives you everything you need to solve common performance problems and make your DB2 applications run more efficiently.
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Tutorial: Turbo-charge Application Performance to DB2
Learn how to:
- Use Connection Pooling options to maximize resources
- Enable Bulk Loading of mass volumes of data
- Automatically adjust server CPU and memory with the Workload Manager
And more...
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Data Connectivity Solutions -- How Do They Measure Up?
This data connectivity comparison gives you a clear picture of the differences between free and high-quality database drivers. See how drivers compare in performance, reliability, interoperability, enterprise-class features, technical support and more.
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Data Connectivity Solutions -- How Do They Measure Up?
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Top Five Ways to Accelerate Your Business
Discover 5 strategic ways to accelerate your business and improve customer satisfaction with Progress DataDirect Connect and Progress DataDirect Cloud, delivering the breadth of depth of data connectivity you need.
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Top Five Ways to Accelerate Your Business
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