Driven by emerging requirements for self-service analytics, faster discovery, predictions based on real-time operational data, and the need to integrate rich and streaming data sets, BI and analytics platforms are one of the fastest growing software markets.
Today, it’s easier than ever for MongoDB Atlas customers to make use of the MongoDB Connector for Business Intelligence. The new BI Connector for Atlas is a fully managed, turnkey service that allows you to use your automated cloud databases as data sources for popular SQL-based BI platforms, giving you faster time to insight on rich, multi-structured data.
The BI Connector for Atlas removes the need for additional BI middleware and custom ETL jobs, and relies on the underlying Atlas platform to automate potentially time-consuming administration tasks such as setup, authentication, maintaining availability, and ongoing management.
Customers can use the BI Connector for Atlas along with the recently released MongoDB ODBC Driver to provide a SQL interface to fully managed MongoDB databases. This allows data scientists and business analysts responsible for analytics and business reporting on MongoDB data to easily connect to and use popular visualization and dashboarding tools such as Excel, Tableau, MicroStrategy, Microsoft Power BI, and Qlik.
When deploying the BI Connector, Atlas designates a secondary in your managed cluster as the data source for analysis, minimizing the likelihood an analytical workload could impact performance on your operational data store. The BI Connector for Atlas also utilizes MongoDB’s aggregation pipeline to push more work to the database and reduce the amount of data that needs to be moved and computed in the BI layer, helping deliver insights faster.
The BI Connector for Atlas is currently available for M10 Atlas clusters and higher.