Category: Amazon AppFlow

Kaplan, Inc. provides individuals, educational institutions, and businesses with a broad array of services, supporting our students and partners to meet their diverse and evolving needs throughout their educational and professional journeys. In this post, we discuss how the Kaplan data engineering team implemented data integration from the Salesforce application to Amazon Redshift. The solution uses Amazon Simple Storage Service as a data lake, Amazon Redshift as a data warehouse, Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) as an orchestrator, and Tableau as the presentation layer.

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effortlessly move and analyze data across diverse platforms is essential. Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed data integration service, has been at the forefront of streamlining data transfer between AWS services, software as a service (SaaS) applications, and now Google BigQuery. In this blog post, you explore the new Google BigQuery connector in Amazon AppFlow and discover how it simplifies the process of transferring data from Google’s data warehouse to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), providing significant benefits for data professionals and organizations, including the democratization of multi-cloud data access.

In the world of software engineering and development, organizations use project management tools like Atlassian Jira Cloud. Managing projects with Jira leads to rich datasets, which can provide historical and predictive insights about project and development efforts. Although Jira Cloud provides reporting capability, loading this data into a data lake will facilitate enrichment with other […]

Implementing an effective data sharing strategy that satisfies compliance and regulatory requirements is complex. Customers often need to share data between disparate software as a service (SaaS) platforms within their organization or across organizations. On many occasions, they need to apply business logic to the data received from the source SaaS platform before pushing it […]

This post was co-written with Amit Shah, Principal Consultant at Atos. Customers across industries seek meaningful insights from the data captured in their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. To achieve this, they combine their CRM data with a wealth of information already available in their data warehouse, enterprise systems, or other software as a service […]

This is a guest post written by Dr. Yannick Misteli, lead cloud platform and ML engineering in global product strategy (GPS) at Roche. Recently the Roche Data Insights (RDI) initiative was launched to achieve our vision using new ways of working and collaboration in order to build shared, interoperable data & insights with federated governance. […]

As organizations embark on their data modernization journey, big data analytics and machine learning (ML) use cases are becoming even more integral parts of business. The ease for data preparation and seamless integration with third-party data sources is of paramount importance in order to gain insights quickly and make critical business decisions faster. AWS Glue […]

Software as a service (SaaS) based applications are in demand today, and organizations have a growing need to adopt them in order to make data-driven decisions. As such SaaS adoption grows, extracting data from various SaaS applications and running analytics across them gets complicated. You have to rely on a set of third-party tools to […]

Organizations today want to make data-driven decisions. The data could lie in multiple source systems, such as line of business applications, log files, connected devices, social media, and many more. As organizations adopt software as a service (SaaS) applications, data becomes increasingly fragmented and trapped in different “data islands.” To make decision-making easier, organizations are […]

This post is co-written by Mei Long at Upsolver.  Software as a service (SaaS) based applications are in demand today, and customers have growing need for adopting many of them in their use cases. As adoption grows, extracting data within these various SaaS applications and running analytics across them gets complicated. Although there are several […]