IBM Bluemix Data Connect, formerly DataWorks, is a self-service data preparation and integration service for users to access and prepare their data for analytics.
IBM Bluemix Data Connect is a fully managed self-service data preparation and movement service that enables you to streamline your analytics and application development projects to deliver insights faster and with increased accuracy. It provides a wide range of data access connectors to your most essential data sources so you can explore, combine, and shape your data to prepare it for analytics. Use it to positively impact the way your organization leverages valuable data resources - all from the convenience of the cloud.
Capabilities
- Simple Data Access - Easy and secure access your most essential on-premises and cloud data sources with a powerful visual interface, ensuring you have the right data for your analytics project.
- Fast Data Preparation - A broad range of operations let you join data from multiple sources and design data flows to generate your own data sets to propel your analytics project forward with speed and accuracy.
- Smart Delivery - A fully managed infrastructure in addition to seamless integration across the IBM cloud data services ecosystem enable you to take the load off of IT and to focus on delivering insights.
Key Features
- Accessing data - Access data wherever it resides by relying on connectivity to the most common industry data sources. With 25+ connectors available today, it’s easy to securely connect to the data you need.
- Designing Data Flows - Complexity demands a way to move beyond working directly with the data. Design data flows combining multiple data sources with real-time validation to quickly create complex transformation routines.
- Shaping Raw Data - Filter values and columns from the source data, sort, remove duplicates, and understand the quality of the data through standardized scores.
When asking questions about Data Connect, you should:
Ensure you are asking a technical question about the Data Connect service. (For questions about your account, ask at IBM developerWorks Answers or open a support ticket.)
Search Stack Overflow to see if somebody else has already asked the same question.
Explain what you were trying to do when you encountered the problem. What software versions were you using? Is there anything else about your environment that could lead to the problem?
Provide detailed steps where possible. Isolate the problem and reproduce it with as few steps as possible. Additionally, include information about data sources/targets where relevant.
Include the dataconnect tag, plus the additional ibm-bluemix tag.
Getting support for Data Connect
Stack Overflow is the best option for technical questions about the Data Connect service. The Data Connect Development and Support teams monitor Stack Overflow closely.
Ask questions about the Data Connect service at IBM developerWorks Answers. It's also the best place to ask questions about getting started with Data Connect and Bluemix.
Anyone with a Bluemix account can open a support ticket. See Getting Customer Support for details on contacting Support and opening tickets.
Helpful links
- Data Connect documentation - extensive, detailed technical information
- Bluemix documentation - extensive, detailed technical information
- ID and billing questions - FAQ for common Bluemix issues
- Bluemix status - notifications about events that affect the platform and services
- What is IBM Bluemix?
- Get started with Bluemix
- Bluemix resources
