Jerod Johnson

Director, Technology Evangelism

Jerod is a high school math and computer science teacher-turned software developer-turned technology evangelist. He currently develops CData Software's partnerships, attends trade shows, generates content for CData Software and other sites, and has had the honor of presenting and speaking on behalf of CData Software at user groups, trade shows, developer conferences, and more.

Blogs by Jerod Johnson

January 31, 2019

SQL Access to Elasticsearch

by Jerod Johnson

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of solving a growing number of use cases. It centrally stores your data so you can discover the expected and uncover the unexpected. As Elasticsearch offers some limited driver interfaces we are often asked how ou...

January 17, 2019

What is Amazon DocumentDB? CData Connectivity Solutions

by Jerod Johnson

Amazon DocumentDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service by Amazon Web Services (AWS), is designed to be compatible with MongoDB workloads. CData connectivity solutions seamlessly integrate with DocumentDB, enhancing data access in the analytics platform, applications, and ETL tools of your choice.

January 9, 2019

Expanding Data Connectivity in Microsoft Power BI, Flow, and PowerApps

by Jerod Johnson

Microsoft offers a full suite of low-code solutions for building business applications and working with data. From the Power BI service for self-service analytics, to PowerApps and Flow for building applications, workflows, and tasks that consume, move, transform, or otherwise work with e...

December 6, 2018

Consolidating Enterprise Data to a Data Lake on Amazon S3 with CData Sync

by Jerod Johnson

We recently discussed the benefits and challenges involved in building a data warehouse and gave an example with Google BigQuery . BigQuery is only one of many popular solutions for data warehousing. Lately, flat-file ingestion-based destinations have become popular due to their ubiquity ...

November 30, 2018

Data Warehousing with Google BigQuery and CData Sync

by Jerod Johnson

The popularity of data warehousing continues to surge as tools for business intelligence (BI), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) are helping organizations realize new business value from their enterprise data. Advances in data warehousing, and subsequent tooling, is ...

July 25, 2018

Build Dynamic Power BI Dashboards Using Live Data

by Jerod Johnson

The addition of custom connectors has dramatically broadened the connectivity potential for Power BI users. Coming off of the Microsoft Business Applications Summit, we are pleased to announce the release of CData Power BI Connectors . Our new Power BI Connectors enable access to live dat...

April 10, 2018

Build Dynamic Tableau Dashboards Using Live Couchbase Data

by Jerod Johnson

Using the CData ODBC Driver for Couchbase, enterprises can unite the powerful visualization and reporting features of Tableau with their Couchbase NoSQL data stores to build dynamic dashboards based on live Couchbase data. Thanks to the innovative features of the CData ODBC Driver, users ...

March 13, 2018

Virtual Database Access to Delimited Files (CSV/TSV) Stored Remotely

by Jerod Johnson

Delimited files are commonly used when importing and exporting data with relational databases and other data stores. As cloud storage services like Google Drive, Box.com, Amazon S3, and more evolve, enterprises are increasingly using them as repositories for data that has already been col...

March 1, 2018

Connecting Data To Machine Learning & AI

by Jerod Johnson

Connecting Data To Machine Learning AI Data that has been collected, collated, and cleansed is ripe for analysis and insight generation. Advances in machine learning and AI are helping deliver on the promises of augmented analytics to produce actionable insights. Pairing machine learning t...

January 11, 2018

ODBC Connectivity to Airtable Data

by Jerod Johnson

Airtable is a spreadsheet-database hybrid, where the features of a database (typed fields, lookups, relationships between records, etc) are applied to a spreadsheet. By using the CData ODBC Driver for JSON with the Airtable REST API , you gain ODBC connectivity to your Airtable data, easi...

November 27, 2017

Replicate NetSuite to RDBMS to Facilitate Operational Reporting in Tableau

by Jerod Johnson

As a NetSuite user, you may want to use data visualization tools beyond those offered directly by NetSuite, or you may want to create visualizations that combine your NetSuite data with data from another source. CData Software can help with both situations. With CData Sync, users are free...

November 10, 2017

Data Connectivity with Go

by Jerod Johnson

Eight years ago, today, the Go programming language was released as an open source project. Since then the interest in Go has grown by leaps and bounds, launching its way into the 10 most popular languages on GitHub. Go is expressive and efficient, using potent concurrency mechanisms to e...

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