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Data Connectors

Turn disparate data sources into a single story. With data connectors, information flows directly to your BI dashboard—accurate and up-to-date. This helps you see where you stand more quickly and make better decisions.

What are data connectors?

Data connectors are the links that automatically make data available in your BI environment. They retrieve data directly from your systems and prepare it for further processing in a data model or data warehouse. This eliminates the need to maintain manual exports or custom solutions, and ensures you always have a reliable foundation for analysis.

Why Data Connectors Are Important

Without connectors, valuable information often remains trapped in siloed systems. This makes reporting time-consuming and prone to errors. By automatically linking data to your BI environment, you can work faster, smarter, and more consistently.

Connectors ensure that everyone in your organization sees the same numbers, based on a single, reliable source. You save time because data is always available and up-to-date, and you reduce costs by eliminating the need for manual exports and expensive custom integrations. The result: decisions based on facts, not gut feelings.

Data Connectors

Insights with Data Connectors

Use Alistar’s quick-start solutions. Our Analytics solutions not only utilize the connectors but also provide a complete data model that allows you to generate reports directly from your ERP system. Examples include Analytics4Dynamics for reporting on Dynamics 365 Business Central, or Finance & Supply Chain.

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Gain visibility into your entire Dynamics 365 environment through BI dashboards. With our connectors, all your data is immediately available in your BI tool—accurate and up-to-date.

Exact

Get more out of Exact by bringing financial and operational data directly to your BI dashboard. No more exports or separate integrations—just reliable reports in a single environment.

AFAS

Organize data from AFAS in a clear and structured way. Our connectors prepare everything for BI reports and dashboards, so you can gain control over your processes and performance.

SAP

Make data from SAP quickly available for analysis. Whether you work with SAP Business One, SAP R3, ECC, or S/4HANA, our connectors ensure that your reports are updated in real time.

AccountView

AFAS

Arrow

Cobra

Connexys

Copernica

Thinning

Dynamics 365

Exact Globe

Exact Online

Google Analytics

HubSpot

JD Edwards

Magento

Mailchimp

Nmbrs

Payt

PerfectView

Picqer

Raet

Reeleezee

RobinHQ

RouteManager

SalesFeed

Salesforce

SAP BusinessByDesign

TimeWax

TopDesk

Xelion

Youforce

And more...

How It Works

How do data connectors work?

Connectors ensure that data is not only received automatically, but also processed intelligently and efficiently. For those who want to know what happens behind the scenes, we've listed the most important features.

Efficient Data Retrieval
Connectors overcome the limitations of cloud applications by collecting all data in a single session. Instead of thousands of separate API calls, there is a single, streamlined data stream.
Both initial and incremental data loads are fully automated. Thanks to flexible scheduling, your data is always up to date—whether on a daily basis or in near real time.
Data is organized into queryable tables so that it is immediately available for reporting and analysis in your BI environment.
Connectors perform transformations such as normalizing and merging data with existing tables. This process is fully automated and error-free.
Every data synchronization is logged. This way, you always know when and how your data was updated, and you maintain control over the entire chain.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What are data connectors?

Data connectors are tools that automatically retrieve information from systems and prepare it for analysis. This means you no longer need to run exports, and you always work with up-to-date and consistent figures.

Our data connectors support dozens of systems, including well-known platforms such as: AccountView, AFAS, Arrow, Cobra, Connexys, Copernica, Dunning, Dynamics 365, Exact Globe, Exact Online, Google Analytics, HubSpot, JD Edwards, Magento, Mailchimp, Nmbrs, Payt, PerfectView, Picqer, Raet, Reeleezee, RobinHQ, RouteManager, SalesFeed, Salesforce, SAP BusinessByDesign, TimeWax, TopDesk, Xelion, Youforce. And many more.

Is your system not listed? No problem—we likely already have a connector for it, or in many cases, we can still build or integrate one so that your data is automatically available in your BI dashboard.

Yes. In addition to our standard connectors, we also develop custom solutions. This allows us to seamlessly integrate with specific systems or processes that fall outside the standard scope. The result remains the same: up-to-date data that is automatically available in your BI dashboard, fully tailored to your organization.

Yes. Connectors use secure connections and operate in accordance with your systems' standards. Logging ensures that every data synchronization is transparent and verifiable.

That depends on the configured frequency. Connectors can retrieve data daily, but they can also synchronize in near real time so that your dashboards are always up to date.