CData Blog


data virtualization
August 01, 2023

Data Integration vs. Data Virtualization: What’s Best?

by Danielle Bingham

As organizations grapple with ever-expanding amounts of data, they need to find ways to manage, integrate, and analyze information stored in one or more cloud services or on-premises—sometimes both—to make sense of it. There are two main approaches to meeting this challenge: data integration and data virtualization —but which one is best?

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MarTech Data Strategy
July 31, 2023

Modernize Your MarTech Data Strategy with Cloud Data Management Solutions

by CData Software

Managing an ever-growing MarTech ecosystem and leveraging growing volumes of data to create meaningful reporting processes has become increasingly difficult for marketers and the IT teams that support them. CData real-time data connectivity solutions can help your marketing team access, analyze, and leverage their data more effectively.

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Free Webinar: Integration Beyond AWS
July 20, 2023

Free Webinar: Integration Beyond AWS: Connect all Your “Other” Data

by Danielle Bingham

CData and AWS work together to enable connection to hundreds of data sources and visualization tools that allow uncomplicated access for improved performance, reduce time and effort, and lower IT costs. Learn more in our upcoming webinar!

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July 13, 2023

CData Drivers: Enterprise-Grade Security in Every Connection

by Alex Pauncz

At CData, security is a core part of every business operation and software development process. When you leverage CData Drivers, either for internal connectivity or as an embedded layer in your solution, the sanctity of your data — and your customers’ — is paramount.

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Snowflake Summit 2023
July 10, 2023

3 Takeaways from Snowflake Summit 2023

by Jerod Johnson

CData Senior Technology Evangelist, Jerod Johnson, shares his three biggest takeaways from Snowflake Summit 2023.

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CData Architecture
July 06, 2023

CData Architecture: Supporting Multiple Technologies

by Tomas Restrepo

This second installment of our driver technology blog series gives you a glimpse into our driver architecture. This architecture allows us to create CData Drivers that function consistently across technologies, with updates and improvements being supported across the board.

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Driver Development
June 21, 2023

Key Considerations for Data Driver Development

by Tomas Restrepo

The first in a series of blog posts where we take a look at our driver technology, and how we build our products. CData offers drivers for 300+ data sources, across various technologies like ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and more.

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June 05, 2023

Driver in Focus: NoSQL Database Connectivity for Real-Time Reporting

by Lori Goetz

NoSQL databases have no shortage of challenges. CData connectivity solutions translate NoSQL data in real-time into a logical view of tables and columns, essentially, making the data look relational, using a variety of techniques with out-of-the-box connectivity from all of your favorite BI analytics and reporting tools.

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June 02, 2023

Microsoft Build 2023 Highlights: A Data Driven Perspective

by Vincent Lam

Microsoft’s annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, was held last week in Seattle. As expected, Microsoft announced several exciting announcements, ranging from Windows to Azure to the Power Platform. But for data-driven organizations especially, a few announcements really stood out.

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