Any organisation wanting to pursue digital transformation understands the value of good-quality data. Data is akin to digital gold, and it is immensely important to strategic decision-making. Ensuring that your data or BI team has everything they need is part of the challenge.
Data is the invaluable currency of the digital age, holding immense importance in driving critical business decisions and guiding organizations towards success. Yet far too many neglect the mechanisms that manage our data. Data integration is one of the most important parts of digital transformation.
Business Intelligence (BI) teams often face several resource constraints that can impact their ability to deliver their objectives effectively. They must run effective operations with limited time, resources, budget and people. The role can be incredibly challenging when multiple projects are highly prioritised, where data and reports were required yesterday. That said, there are ways to make these challenges more manageable.
For the day-to-day developer, deployment and hosting, plus the subsequent management of solutions in production, is a considerable challenge, especially if it’s outside their immediate skill set. Hosting applications can be complex. Besides the obvious challenges of scalability, security, and reliability (up-time), you must consider where your application will be hosted, how you plan to deploy it, how to monitor it, and more.
Low-code platforms are an efficient and effective solution for accessing and managing data in a Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) database. Linx provides an easy way to connect to a database and interact with it in multiple ways, all while removing the need for complex coding. Linx natively allows interaction with an MSSQL database via the Database plugin. Using this plugin, you can: This functionality can be used by dragging the required function from the plugins tab onto the function you are building.
MySQL is a great option if you are looking for a free and easy-to-use database. With Linx you can easily connect and interact with the data to; Interacting with a MySQL database with Linx is done via ODBC. Once the ODBC data source is set up, you can interact with the MySQL database using the built-in Database Plugin in Linx. This will allow you to run any query you can on MySQL.
