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How to provide access to data in hosted multi-tenant database for reporting...
I have been working with an increasing number of organizations that deployed a hosted multi-tenant database, and are now looking to expose data to individual tenants for reporting purposes. With the...
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Packed house at Dreamforce for Direct SQL Access to the Salesforce cloud
I am very excited that my Dreamforce speaking engagement on real-time SQL access to Salesforce “sold out” within a couple hours! The Dreamforce developer marketing teams have been working to...
View ArticleFreeing Cloud Data and Reaping the Benefits of SaaS
The explosion in Software as a Service has changed the world of data access dramatically. Business critical information that was once within the four walls of an organization is now locked in a variety...
View ArticleA Busy Week at Cloud Expo
November is here, and we’re getting ready for an exciting Cloud Expo show in Santa Clara next week. DataDirect is participating in a big way this year, with a general session hosted by VP and business...
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Excel PowerPivot connection direct to Salesforce SaaS using ODBC for self...
This tutorial shows how you can use the world’s most widely used BI tool, Microsoft Excel, to get direct SQL access via ODBC to SaaS applications hosted in the cloud. More specifically, we’ll look at...
View Article2012: A Look Back at Some of the Major Trends
2012 has certainly been an exciting year! London hosted the XXX Olympic games, the U.S. had an election, Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast, ‘The Hobbit’ is coming out soon, and that’s just the...
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Tibco Spotfire connections to Salesforce via ODBC (includes Silver Spotfire)
Following my presentation at Dreamforce, several shops shared their excitement about the unique analytics and data discovery enabled by DataDirect ODBC and JDBC access to SaaS. In an ideal world, self...
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RightNow, Azure, Salesforce, Netsuite SQL integration across the Oracle...
I recently presented the webinar “Interrogating Your Cloud Applications with Oracle?” to Oracle shops through the Independent Oracle User’s Group (IOUG). This session was presented earlier in the year...
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Cloud Expo London: Freeing Cloud Data
Get ready, London! The DataDirect team is coming your way next week to join our peers at Cloud Expo Europe. On January 29th and 30th we’ll be enjoying tea and crumpets at Olympia National Hall, while...
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Cloud Expo London: Insights from Across the Pond
I had the pleasure of attending Cloud Expo Europe last week and it was a blast! As the biggest gathering of thought leaders and practitioners in Europe, the show drew extremely knowledgeable attendees...
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SQL Server Linked Server ODBC connection to Salesforce from Management Studio
SQL Server shops run their businesses on DataDirect Connect64 for ODBC drivers using Linked Server to federate data against sources such as DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Postgres, Informix and Progress...
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2013 DataDirect Design Previews
What are you doing May 5th and 22nd? If the answer is nothing exciting, then you should join the DataDirect team in Bedford and San Mateo, respectively, for our 2013 Design Previews. This has been...
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Update on Progress Exchange 2013
We are happy to be able to share additional information on Progress Exchange 2013 tracks and some of the exciting things we have planned for October. With three full days of valuable content and more...
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Data Point of the Week #1 – Standard-Based Connectivity
Today we’re excited to kick off our “Data Point of the Week” series, a four-part blog series that will offer advice and pointers and answer questions about different data access issues. First up: Why...
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Real-time SQL Access to Salesforce? – Yes. It’s possible
May has been a very busy month for us in EMEA. First, Bradley Wright hosted a Roundtable Session at Big Data Innovation Summit in London “Big Data Access: High-throughput Data Access to Data Sources...
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How to Accelerate Data Discovery
You may have read my recent blog post on how to ensure that business applications are able to make the most from efficient data connectivity. So now that you’ve uncovered the mysterious data lurking in...
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Data Point of the Week #2 – Fast Connections to SaaS Apps
People like fast. Fast cars, fast commutes, fast Internet speeds. What about fast connections to SaaS apps? While this may not seem quite as exciting, being able to quickly connect to your data sources...
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Ranking the ODBC/JDBC application landscape for SaaS vendors
My sentiment analysis research on the ODBC/JDBC application landscape produced some interesting results. The rationale for this project was to leverage our customer data to help SaaS, BigData and...
View ArticleDataDirect Cloud: A Product Manager’s Universal Remote Control
As a product manager, what would constitute your “dream solution”? If you’re like me, you’re looking for something that, quite simply, makes your life easier. Something that streamlines processes,...
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Trip through the clouds with SQL access to SaaS | Salesforce Platform
I gave the prezi below on SQL access to SaaS at #PRGS13 in Boston and it was well received by Application Partners, Industry Analysts and Global Organizations in attendance. The goal of the...
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