Tag: DataDirect

2012: 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 beginning! It’s been an interesting year for the IT world as well, and as we close in on 2013, I wanted...

Data & AI DataDirect Digital Experience

Jesse Davis December 07, 2012

Excel PowerPivot connection direct to Salesforce SaaS using ODBC for self service analytics

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 how Excel power users can leverage PowerPivot to build enhanced analytic capabilities directly on...

Data & AI DataDirect

Sumit Sarkar November 15, 2012

OBIEE Oracle Business Intelligence integration with Salesforce.com CRM and database.com via ODBC

After working on several POCs last month for integration between Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) and Informatica PowerCenter to Salesforce.com, we have seen a surge in interest for this solution. Support...

Data & AI DataDirect

Sumit Sarkar February 14, 2012

Informatica PowerCenter Salesforce CRM ODBC data integration ready for production

We just completed a POC now ready for production using Progress DataDirect Connect64 XE for ODBC Salesforce driver to migrate, replicate, cleanse, and synchronize...

Data & AI DataDirect

Sumit Sarkar December 07, 2011

Teradata Parallel Transporter load/extract from SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Sybase

I have consulted on several projects to load critical data into the Teradata Data Warehouse from heterogeneous data sources. These include SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, and Sybase using Progress DataDirect...

Data & AI DataDirect

Sumit Sarkar August 24, 2011