External Data

External Data provides a complete solution that allows you to combine data from different sources into one report, supporting the following features:

• Ability to create reusable connections to external data sources
• Security layer over external data access, including the use of Modern Authentication (OAuth 2)
• 32-bit and 64-bit connections
• Client-side and server-side (reusable) connections
• Additional data access drivers for performance and convenience
• Seamless integration into existing Folders, Publishing, and Scheduling functionality
• Ability to join within an External Data source
• Ability to perform a Table Lookup to External Data sources
• Allow reports to reference database tables by administrator maintained table aliases.
• Allow filtering by schema for tables seen by developers.