Connecting Digital Dots

In today’s increasingly data-rich world, analytics is becoming ever more critical to business operations and decision-making. In addition to traditional business analysts, many companies now have additional roles like Data Scientists and Data Engineers tasked with implementing AI-driven analytics engines that crunch data, uncover patterns, and surface actionable insights 24x7x365. An example of such an engine is Sitefinity DEC, which is constantly applying Machine Learning algorithms to customer interaction data in order to segment customers and score leads which drive content personalization and customer journey optimization.

Progress Community Training

There’s a lot you can do at the new Progress Community. Watch this webinar to familiarize yourself with the new platform and learn how to get the most from it.

Virtual Progress Innovation Tour Event

Arm yourself with the knowledge you need to craft an innovation strategy that drives your company forward at the Progress Innovation Tour. This virtual event explores all the cutting-edge technologies and market trends that will help you reposition your business as a digital leader.

Save your seat to discover how businesses like yours are taking advantage of digital disruption to accelerate their innovation and bolster their business. We’ll take a look at how several of our customers are using engaging technology to stay ahead of their industries and address key challenges in delivering seamless and engaging omnichannel experiences.

Join us for this free virtual event and evoke your inner innovator. We’ll be presenting live from our homes and have some great tech prizes to give away for those of you who top our engagement leaderboard. This is a virtual event you won’t want to miss!

Making the Leap: Best Practices for Connecting to Your Cloud Data Warehouse

Companies are relying more and more on cloud-based data warehousing as a solution to some of the critical needs of today’s digital business world. See how Progress DataDirect Connectors for Cloud Data Warehouses can help you access and analyze the data from cloud data warehouses at the speed of business.

Progress DataDirect + Google BigQuery – Accelerate Your Data Warehousing and BI Initiatives

Increasingly, businesses need a data warehouse environment that can scale while requiring little-to-no additional infrastructure investment. Google BigQuery answers this demand, and our new Google BigQuery connectors enables you to easily connect your apps to this cloud data warehouse. Watch this webinar to see our new connector in action.

Getting Ahead of the Hybrid Data Curve

Despite enterprises shifting more of their data assets to the cloud, many essential data systems remain on-prem. Watch this webinar to see how you can get secure, real-time data access to on-prem and cloud-based data with Hybrid Data Pipeline 4.6!

Analytics Continuity During GDPR via Data Masking

With GDPR now live, many enterprises have been forced to sideline their analytics projects to avoid the threat of huge penalties. However, there is another way—data masking enables enterprises to ensure analytics continuity while maintaining GDPR compliance. Learn more in this webinar, where we discuss:

• GDPR’s impact on analytics
• Exceptions to data retention policies
• Data masking for analytics continuity
• Security best practices for data masking
• A live demonstration of data masking

High-Performing Salesforce Data Connector

With Salesforce playing a large role in digital transformation initiatives, businesses are increasingly looking to leverage their Salesforce data for analytics and other mission-critical processes. However, building a custom Salesforce data connector to deliver these capabilities can be complex, time-consuming and expensive.

In this webinar, we’ll dive into the different considerations for developing a Salesforce data connector.

Simplifying OpenEdge Data Access with DataDirect

Your business demands a wider degree of access to your data. In this demonstration, you’ll see how OpenEdge and Autonomous REST Connector can provide you with the superior data access capabilities your business needs to succeed.

Learn how you can:

• Query your JSDO and REST APIs using SQL
• Transform or mask data to address compliance regulation requirements
• Offer seamless connectivity in minutes while improving data security and integrity

Creating Quick, Codeless Connectivity with Autonomous REST Connector

APIs enable businesses to access popular data sources from their enterprise apps, but creating these connections is both difficult and time consuming. With Autonomous REST Connector, you can consume APIs in minutes using codeless configuration and intelligent sampling. Learn more in this demonstration.

Journey to SAS Analytics Grid with SAS, R, Python

Can Your Current Infrastructure Support High-Performance Analytics and Data Science?

Big data, compliance and a highly skilled workforce are driving organizations to transform their current analytical infrastructure to deliver enterprise computing environments that can support the latest in data science and analytics practices. SAS remains a popular choice for statistical programming languages, but there is growing demand for R and Python. Data engineers are now being tasked to deliver scalable and highly available computing resources to support analytics for a growing number of users and increasing data volumes while maintaining security for their customers.

In this webinar you'll learn:

• Differences between traditional and Grid deployments for SAS
• Best practices and lessons learned in deploying an Analytics Grid
• How to deliver an open analytics strategy for SAS, R, Python and others
• Popular data sources for advanced analytics

Modern ETL Tools for Cloud and Big Data

Cloud and big data are now mainstream—making IT’s challenge one of effectively integrating enterprise data with these modern systems. But the challenge is multifaceted, with IT needing to master modern ETL toolkits plus address new issues such as enterprise data security beyond the firewall, support for popular data sources such as Salesforce, Eloqua, SQL Server or Oracle, custom connectivity needs and more.

This webinar drills into the options, including:

• An overview of Modern Data Management
• ETL Tools for the Cloud: AWS Glue, Google DataFlow, Azure Data Factory
• ETL Tools for Hadoop: Apache Sqoop, Apache Nifi, Apache Flume
• Best Practices for Modern ETL

REST APIs for OpenEdge: How OData Can Help

With the rise of SaaS applications and highly integrated microservices, REST APIs have grown increasingly popular as they enable organizations to better integrate data assets with enterprise applications. Many businesses are also increasingly adopting OData (an OASIS/ISO-approved standard) to simplify the process of building and consuming REST APIs.

Join us for this one-hour webinar and learn how to implement powerful REST APIs that enable real-time access to your Progress® OpenEdge® data. We’ll also cover how to avoid duplication of sensitive customer data from OpenEdge with our market-leading data connectivity solution, Progress DataDirect®.

Webinar topics include:

• The business benefits of exposing REST APIs
• Different approaches for REST-enabling OpenEdge
• What OData is and why you need it
• A quick demo of provisioning OData without code

Certify Tableau, Power BI, Qlik Connectors With Your Enterprise Apps

Visual analytics is an essential component for enterprise BI strategies, which has driven demand for full integration of business applications with data visualization tools across the enterprise. To satisfy this demand and deliver seamless user experiences to their customers, many ISVs are building their own BI/data connectors.

However, a build-your-own strategy is neither economical nor scalable, with each enhancement request taking up time that could be better spent elsewhere. To avoid this, many organizations are partnering with Progress® DataDirect® to deliver universal BI connectors.

Join Progress and Tableau in this on-demand webinar to learn about:

• The current landscape of popular data visualization and BI tools
• Differences in integration patterns and available features across several popular tools
• Build vs. buy comparisons using DataDirect Universal BI Connector SDK
• Demo on custom Tableau connector

Enterprise Security in Data Access

Get up-to-speed on the latest security advances for cloud, big data and relational databases

In the wake of increasingly frequent data breaches and emerging data protection laws like GDPR, enterprise security has become paramount. Spending on enterprise security is forecasted to increase to $96.3 billion in 2018.

As organizations continue to invest in business intelligence, big data, IoT and cloud, IT teams are introducing increasingly complex security mechanisms to authorize and encrypt access to data. Your analytics and data management tools need to be able to securely access data spread across different systems. They must run within existing policies, and without introducing security risks.

Join the Progress experts as they explain what it takes to securely access data from rapidly evolving enterprise data access layers.

Watch this webinar to learn about:

• Advances in end-to-end data security
• Latest technologies for big data and cloud—Knox, Ranger, Sentry, Kerberos, OAuth
• Newest security innovations in enterprise databases such as Oracle, SQL Server and more
• How Progress configures and tests security in complex environments
• Progress Security Vulnerability Response Policy

What’s New in REST APIs for Your Database

To simplify the process of building and consuming their REST APIs, many enterprises have increasingly adopted OData, an OASIS/ISO approved standard. In the wake of new data privacy laws such as GDPR, organizations are once again looking for powerful REST APIs to access their systems of record in real-time without duplicating or moving sensitive customer data from their enterprise databases.

Deliver Secure SQL Access for Enterprise APIs

Companies typically build numerous internal applications and complex APIs for enterprise data access. These APIs are often engineered for application developers and based on protocols such as REST or SOAP with payloads in XML or JSON.

However, enterprise data teams need to access this data for analytics, which requires standard query capabilities and the ability to surface metadata. As enterprises adopt new analytical and data management tools, a SQL access layer for this data becomes imperative. Many industries such as financial services, healthcare and technology rely on Progress® DataDirect® OpenAccess™ SDK to build a custom ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET or OLE DB layer on top of their internal APIs and hosted multi-tenant databases.

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn about:

• Use cases for providing SQL access to your enterprise data
• How organizations provide SQL Access to their APIs
• Pitfalls and best practices to building SQL access

Plus—don’t miss our live demo using OpenAccess SDK to provide SQL access for a REST API.

Frictionless Hybrid Data Access for Clouds

Experts from Progress® DataDirect® covered:

1. Common hybrid data access scenarios for cloud applications
2. Common approaches to accessing business data behind the firewall
3. How our vendor agnostic gateway allows cloud ISVs to securely connect to data behind the firewall

Open vs. Embedded Analytics for Cloud Apps

What is the right strategy for your product – ”embedded analytics,” or “open analytics,” which allow friction-less integration with external tools? Or could it be both?

This webinar explores popular open and embedded analytics strategies. It’s intended for cloud application vendors and ISVs with on-premises apps moving to the cloud. In this webinar, Progress and the Eckerson Group will share their deep expertise in business analytics.

Watch this on-demand webinar to:

• Get a market overview for popular analytics and data management tools
• Learn about embedded analytics and where it fits in an analytics strategy for cloud apps
• Learn about open analytics for cloud apps and how to deliver a BYOA ("bring your own analytics”) strategy
• Receive an overview of DataDirect Hybrid Services
• Enable open analytics via standard SQL (ODBC/JDBC) and REST (OData)

Configuring Salesforce External Object Reports

Salesforce shops, including ourselves, have been eagerly anticipating external object support with reports. Starting in Winter ’17, you can build native reports with on-demand access to external data sources such as Oracle, SQL Server, Greenplum, Amazon Redshift, IBM DB2 or Hadoop Big Data Platforms.

External objects are powered by Salesforce Connect and provide clicks-not-code data access for admins, devs and general users. But is all of this too good to be true?

During this on-demand webinar, you’ll get:

• An introduction to external objects and their new capabilities for reporting and Wave trending
• Steps to setup Salesforce reports with external data sources
• Steps to produce OData from warehouses, marts, lakes and other reporting systems
• Report considerations and limitations with Salesforce Connect