Integrate Live Odoo Data into Amazon SageMaker Canvas with RDS


Use CData Connect Cloud to connect to Odoo from Amazon RDS connector in Amazon SageMaker Canvas and build custom models using live Odoo data.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a no-code machine learning platform that lets you generate predictions, prepare data, and build models without writing code. When paired with CData Connect Cloud, you get instant, cloud-to-cloud access to Odoo data for building custom machine-learning models, predicting customer churn, generating texts, building chatbots, and more. This article shows how to connect to Connect Cloud from Amazon SageMaker Canvas using the RDS connector and integrate live Odoo data into your ML model deployments.

CData Connect Cloud provides a pure SQL, cloud-to-cloud interface for Odoo, allowing you to easily integrate with live Odoo data in Amazon SageMaker Canvas — without replicating the data. CData Connect Cloud looks exactly like a SQL Server database to Amazon SageMaker Canvas and uses optimized data processing out of the box to push all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to Odoo, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return Odoo data.

About Odoo Data Integration

Accessing and integrating live data from Odoo has never been easier with CData. Customers rely on CData connectivity to:

  • Access live data from both Odoo API 8.0+ and Odoo.sh Cloud ERP.
  • Extend the native Odoo features with intelligent handling of many-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many data properties. CData's connectivity solutions also intelligently handle complex data properties within Odoo. In addition to columns with simple values like text and dates, there are also columns that contain multiple values on each row. The driver decodes these kinds of values differently, depending upon the type of column the value comes from:
    • Many-to-one columns are references to a single row within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-one columns are represented as integers, whose value is the ID to which they refer in the other model.
    • Many-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-many columns are represented as text containing a comma-separated list of integers. Each value in that list is the ID of a row that is being referenced.
    • One-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model - they are similar to many-to-many columns (comma-separated lists of integers), except that each row in the referenced model must belong to only one in the main model.
  • Use SQL stored procedures to call server-side RFCs within Odoo.

Users frequently integrate Odoo with analytics tools such as Power BI and Qlik Sense, and leverage our tools to replicate Odoo data to databases or data warehouses.


Getting Started


Configure Odoo Connectivity for Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Connectivity to Odoo from Amazon SageMaker Canvas is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Odoo data from Amazon SageMaker Canvas, we start by creating and configuring a Odoo connection.

  1. Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections, and click Add Connection.
  2. Select "Odoo" from the Add Connection panel.
  3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Odoo.

    To connect, set the Url to a valid Odoo site, User and Password to the connection details of the user you are connecting with, and Database to the Odoo database.

  4. Click Create & Test.
  5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Odoo Connection page and update the User-based permissions.

Add a Personal Access Token

If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.

  1. Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
  2. On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
  3. Give your PAT a name and click Create.
  4. The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.

With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Odoo data from Amazon SageMaker Canvas.

Connecting to CData Connect Cloud from Amazon SageMaker Canvas

With the connection in CData Connect Cloud configured, you are ready to integrate live Odoo data into Amazon SageMaker Canvas using its RDS connector.

  1. Select a domain and user profile in Amazon SageMaker Canvas and click on "Open Canvas".
  2. Once the Canvas application opens, navigate to the left panel, and select "My models".
  3. Click on "Create new model" in the My models screen.
  4. Specify a Model name in Create new model window and select a Problem type. Click on "Create".
  5. Once the model version gets created, click on "Create dataset" in the Select dataset tab.
  6. In the Create a tabular dataset window, add a "Dataset name" and click on "Create".
  7. Click on the "Data Source" drop-down and search for or navigate to the RDS connector and click on " Add Connection".
  8. In the Add a new RDS connection window, set the following properties:

    • Connection Name: a relevant connection name
    • Set Engine type to sqlserver-web
    • Set Port to 14333
    • Set Address as tds.cdata.com
    • Set Username to a Connect Cloud user (e.g. [email protected])
    • Set Password to the PAT for the above user
    • Set Database name the Odoo connection (e.g., Odoo1)
  9. Click on "Create connection".

Integrating Odoo Data into Amazon SageMaker Canvas

With the connection to Connect Cloud configured in the RDS, you are ready to integrate live Odoo data into your Amazon SageMaker Canvas dataset.

  1. In the tabular dataset created in RDS with Odoo data, search for the Odoo connection configured on Connect Cloud in the search bar or from the list of connections.
  2. Select the table of your choice from Odoo, drag and drop it into the canvas on the right.
  3. You can create workflows by joining any number of tables from the Odoo connection (as shown below). Click on "Create dataset".
  4. Once the dataset is created, click on "Select dataset" to build your model.
  5. Perform analysis, generate prediction, and deploy the model.

At this point, you have access to live Odoo data in Amazon SageMaker that you can utilize to build custom ML models to generate predictive business insights and grow your organization.

SQL Access to Odoo Data from Cloud Applications

Now you have a direct connection to live Odoo data from Amazon SageMaker Canvas. You can create more connections, datasets, and predictive models to drive business — all without replicating Odoo data.

To get real-time data access to 100+ SaaS, Big Data, and NoSQL sources directly from your cloud applications, see the CData Connect Cloud.

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