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The term API – Application Programming Interface – refers to the set of communication protocols or rules which allow an application to access the features of, or data contained in, another operating system or program. APIs can make it possible for companies to build rich and accurate profiles of their customers by aggregating data about them from multiple computer systems, inside and outside the enterprise.

Suppose you have data in Google Sheets that you want to bring into your data warehouse to join up to other data for better BI. You could use Talend Cloud Integration, but you don't need to do complex transformations and you don't want to spend a lot of time. What about Stitch Data Loader? Stitch is a great ELT platform, able to move millions of rows from more than 100 data sources with just a few mouse clicks, but it doesn't provide a native integration for Google Sheets.

Investment in artificial intelligence (AI) is growing, with 60% of adopters raising their budgets 50% year over year, according to Constellation Research. But working with AI under emerging privacy standards is complex, requiring a dynamic balance that allows for continued innovation without misstepping on regulatory requirements.

Middleware is considered by many as an old-fashioned term, but the function that it performs is more important than ever. With ever-growing amounts of data, applications, and systems in use throughout the enterprise, integrating them all and putting an end to data silos is becoming more important than ever before.

Data regulations require organizations to increase control over their data assets, which in fact can lead to business benefits beyond regulatory compliance. A robust data governance program is pivotal to any data protection or compliance legislation such as CCPA or HIPAA in the US, the Banking Royal Commission in Australia or GDPR in Europe. The traditional data governance disciplines of data ownership, metadata management, data quality management and model governance fully apply.

So far it was only possible to publish data from Talend Data Integration to Tableau Server indirectly. In this blog post we present a custom Talend Component, that enables Talend to publish data directly to Tableau Server without any detours.

People often ask me, what's the difference between Yellowfin and our competitors? The truth is I try not to look at what our competitors are doing. That’s because we focus on different end-users to our competitors.