After spending months of development work to build ODBC connectors for REST APIs, the performance still falls short of your expectations. You can’t recover the time spent, and you need a new solution. This scenario is all-too familiar for developers. Here, we discuss how you can improve your REST API, making it ready for enterprise-level users.

If you are looking for a reporting solution that can handle complex data and deliver fast results, you might want to check out Jet Reports from insightsoftware. Jet Reports is a powerful Excel-based reporting tool that directly connects to your Microsoft Dynamics ERP and allows you to create custom reports and dashboards with ease using real-time data. Jet Reports is designed to make your reporting experience fast and smooth.

Your AI-powered data science partner just got a major upgrade. The Data Science Agent now automates ML workflows with Spark, BigQuery ML, & BigQuery DataFrames.

In addition to its existing text embedding models, you can now use both Google’s Gemini and open-source (OSS) models directly within BigQuery.

Many people in project management think of Microsoft Excel as an inferior tool. They worry about version control with collaboration across the business, especially when dealing with large enterprise projects. However, Excel can be a powerful project management tool when used with the right add-ins. When you understand the unique challenges of enterprise projects and how Excel can serve those needs, you can learn to use it wisely.

Business intelligence (BI) dashboards contain a wealth of information that companies need to succeed in competitive environments. Marketing and sales departments might rely on pipeline progression dashboards while product managers and engineering teams use them to track product usage and performance KPIs.

Security standards continue to evolve, and organizations need infrastructure that evolves along with them. TLS 1.3 brings stronger encryption to streaming infrastructure for data in transit while ensuring alignment with strict security and compliance requirements. We’re excited to announce that TLS 1.3 is currently available as an opt-in feature on Confluent Cloud Dedicated clusters and all other Confluent Cloud APIs, including Stream Governance, Metrics, and Control Plane.

As leaders across industries, we’ve all experienced the frustration of legacy BI tools—spending weeks building dashboards that end up unused, or struggling with rigid filters that block true exploration and insight. Calling this “data-driven” is no longer acceptable! Today, the pace of AI innovation has raised expectations. Customers and end users now demand instant, contextual, and explainable intelligence, seamlessly embedded into their daily workflows.