Web Service APIs
Today, it is becoming increasingly rare that products have their data neatly organized in a relational database for access by a query tool. Some products have their data scattered in multiple databases, logs, journals, or non-relational databases like Cassandra or MongoDB. Even when a relational database is used, access via a JDBC connection to the database is restricted for security reasons. As a result, the industry standard is to use RESTful APIs for intra-application communication rather than directly querying other databases. Using RESTful APIs anyone can now easily and securely access and visualize data from an entirely new set of data sources.
With Insite Analytics Web Service (WS) APIs customers can retrieve JSON data from a RESTFul web service, transform it into tabular data, and visualize it on an Insite dashboard.
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