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

July 27, 2016

Connect to QuickBooks Data from Google Apps Script

by Jerod Johnson

There are many on-premises accounting and CRM applications that facilitate the work that businesses do. From automated functionality, to single click reporting, these tools provide the opportunity to simplify and streamline tasks such as bookkeeping, lead management, and email campaigns (...

June 29, 2016

An Alternative to Microsoft JET/ACE for Excel

by Jerod Johnson

There are many situations where a developer might want programmatic access to data stored in an Excel file. Ideally, this would be a trivial task when working with the Microsoft .NET languages in Visual Studio. The unfortunate reality is that the older Microsoft Jet OLEDB Provider and the...

May 27, 2016

Informatica PowerCenter and Your Data

by Jerod Johnson

This year's Informatica World 2016 was a great success. Now that we are back from the conference, we would like to build on that momentum with some technical content to demonstrate how easy it is to work with our Drivers from Informatica products. Our drivers allow you to connect to data ...

April 14, 2016

SQL Access to Apache Cassandra

by Jerod Johnson

The Apache Cassandra database provides its users scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and linear scalability without sacrificing performance. By using any of the CData Drivers for Apache Cassandra , you can access your Apache Cassandra data using SQL to read from and write to ...

October 29, 2015

Video: Connecting to MongoDB Data from Microsoft Excel

by Jerod Johnson

Interested in connecting to your MongoDB data from Microsoft Excel? Check out the tutorial video below: You can check out our MongoDB ODBC Driver product page for more information. Feel free to download a free, 30-day trial and get started working with your MongoDB data today!

October 8, 2015

Video: Connecting to BigQuery Data from Microsoft Excel

by Jerod Johnson

Interested in connecting to your BigQuery data from Microsoft Excel? Check out the tutorial video below: You can check out our BigQuery ODBC Driver product page for more information. Feel free to download a free, 30-day trial and get started working with your BigQuery data today!

Vibe Querying with MCP: Uncovering Insights from Sales and Marketing Data

by Jerod Johnson, Marie Forshaw

Discover how marketers can use CData MCP Servers with Salesforce and Google Analytics, integrated with advanced LLM tools, to query real-time business data like never before.

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Digital Transformation in Accounting Simplified with Data Connectivity

by Jerod Johnson

At CData, we talk a lot about digital transformation and cloud adoption . Amid the rise in cloud computing, more services across every industry are available in the cloud than ever before, including accounting software. The top accounting software providers, including companies like Oracl...

Explore What’s New in the CData Drivers & Connectors 2025 Release

by Jerod Johnson

Explore the 2025 release of CData Drivers & Connectors with new sources, platform support, API updates, and major performance and documentation upgrades.

Empower Data Workers with Real-Time Connectivity

by Jerod Johnson

Modern data and analytics teams face significant challenges in efficiently operating across an increasingly diverse data ecosystem. CData Connect helps teams overcome their data management challenges by providing a common, easy-to-use platform for accessing enterprise data from any and ev...

Vibe Querying Episode 3: Sales Execution with Salesforce Data

by Jerod Johnson, Marie Forshaw

Learn how sales leaders use CData's Salesforce MCP Server to transform deal management with AI-powered vibe querying for real-time portfolio insights.

The Best Way to Embed 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. CData Software produces standards-based drivers for Elasticsearch (and over 100 ...

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