Zoho Analytics is a powerful tool for reporting and analytics, however it can be difficult to aggregate data from the seemingly endless list of data sources that companies need to deal with and send it to dashboards.
With Dataddo’s data integration platform, organizations can extract, prep and send any data to Zoho Analytics automatically at set intervals without writing a single line of code. Dataddo offers native connectors to a wide variety of popular online services and can connect to almost any service with an API using our JSON, XML, CSV or community connectors.
Dataddo eliminates the need for extensive ETL engineering and automates data handling processes so your team can focus on drawing new insights from analytics data instead of wasting time dealing with data preparation.
Dataddo offers a two week free trial of our platform so that you can connect your various data sources and test the output to Zoho Analytics using our native connector. If you need assistance configuring the platform, feel free to contact us and we will get you in touch with one of our data integration specialists!
Our society and businesses are increasingly more depending on data. As new and new services and storages are coming to the stage and as well as they are being adopted into the business environment is increasingly difficult for businesses to work with those data and storages. If you want to be effective you have to find a way how to handle it, you need a service or a tool which accommodate all those data sources and which is flexible enough to be easily interoperable to your existing IT stack. And this is a time when Dataddo is coming to the stage.
Dataddo is a data integration platform that helps organizations easily compile data from any online source and efficiently bring it to the various business intelligence tools, dashboarding apps or existing data warehousing ecosystems.
Data sources
Dataddo is composed of three basic components. A section called Data sources gives you a list of available native connectors to various online services. We are talking with services like Google Analytics, Facebook Insights, Twitter Ads, Instagram, and many others.
Data destinations
In the business intelligence and dashboarding apps section, you can choose from a various list of outputs where you can push your data. We have connectors to various storages systems such as Google Big Query, AWS Redshift or even your own on-prem deployed SQL-based databases. You can also easily connect services such a Tableau or Google Data studio.
Integration flows
The central part „The Integration flows“ orchestrate all the integrations. Here you can easily manage the extractions from your various data sources and automate the final delivery of your data to your dashboarding applications or storage solutions.
The advent of the internet, social networks, real-time analytics tools and artificial intelligence are profoundly changing almost every business process towards being data-driven, fostering almost ‘scientific’ approaches to business management. Indeed, this creates a considerable reliance not just on the data itself, but on the underlying data infrastructure as well. Since non-technical departments such as marketing or sales often tend to be primary drivers of this shift, the underlying infrastructure has to reflect the fact that it’s operators typically do not have a degree in computer science.
‘Shadow IT’ fostering siloed analytics within organizations
Arguably the most crucial factor of changes in the modern business environment is the availability of real-time (or near real-time) data to make qualified business decisions. 20 years ago, it was pretty common to conduct research in the form of financial analyses, focus groups, questionnaires or marketing studies prior to each critical decision. The issue with these practices is that they were often rather occasional and performed on a small scale, therefore past experiences of business leaders and their ‘gut feelings’ were essential ingredients of the decision-making process. With the advent of digital products, online customer-facing systems and digital sales channels, there is a vast surplus of various analytics tools that can provide unprecedented insights. However, the adoption of these tools and services (mostly delivered as SaaS) was usually not driven by the overall IT strategy, but rather end-users creating what some call the phenomenon of shadow IT. Since many services such as Salesforce, Zendesk or Google Analytics gradually grew into enterprise-grade softwares, organizations usually built siloed teams and capabilities on top these systems.
Data integration platform as the centerpiece of data fabric
Adoption of data analytics within organizations naturally forces the centralization of analytics capabilities since the previously mentioned siloed architecture is rather expensive and creates frictions between internal teams and departments. In support of this claim, renowned IT analytics and research firm Gartner identified data fabric as one of the critical data and analytics trends. According to Gartner, “Data fabric enables frictionless access and sharing of data in a distributed data environment. It enables a single and consistent data management framework, which allows seamless data access and processing by design across otherwise siloed storage.” Since data experts find it extremely painful to work with analytics data from multiple web, social, sales or customer platforms, we developed the Dataddo integration platform that helps our customers to centralize all their analytics data into a single point; whether it is a dashboarding app like Tableau or Google Data Studio, their data-warehouse or cloud-based big data storage.
No-code platforms as an answer to increasing demand for technical skills in non-technical departments
The trend of proliferation of data analytics in the organisations result in another outcome; increasing requirements on non-technical employees (usually in marketing, product or sales) to deal with tasks previously dominated by people with a technical skill set such as data-prep scripting, SQL or data architecture. Indeed, it is not uncommon that basic knowledge of coding and working knowledge of technology is often considered as one of must-have skills for marketers. However, marketers are not coders and vice versa, therefore it is important to provide the non-technical staff with tools and platform, allowing them to perform complex operations, but still having ‘human’ interface. Therefore the no-code / low-code platform is the answer for solving this issue.
The idea for building the Dataddo platform came from the knowledge that many data experts find it extremely painful to work with analytics data from multiple web, social, sales and customer platforms. Having this insight, we identified a need for a no-code data integration platform that helps businesses centralize all of their analytics data into a single place whether that’s a dashboarding app like Tableau or Google Data Studio, their data-warehouse or a cloud-based big data storage. We are excited to see that our initial vision for building Dataddo has been validated by the world’s most respected IT research and analytics firm, Gartner.
Gartner listed data fabric as a key data and analytics technology trend. Data fabric “enables frictionless access and sharing of data in a distributed data environment. It enables a single and consistent data management framework, which allows seamless data access and processing by design across otherwise siloed storage.”
With the capabilities of Dataddo platform ever growing large, we have decided to centralize all the documentation, video tutorials, best practices as case studies into a single platform available on docs.dataddo.com.
We will be gradually adding new content, so stay tuned!
A clear trend in today’s business IT is the proliferation of various cloud-based services that seek to lower operational costs, facilitate the adoption of new technologies and improve overall business performance. It has become common practice for businesses to use CRM for clients and lead management, business intelligence tools for financial analysis, Google Analytics to track online channel performance, Google AdWords for online campaign management and the list goes on. Having immediate access to performance information regarding various aspects of your business is always great. However, this is easier said than done. With and abundance of data coming from these services and with new tools and services appearing all the time, orchestrating the entire infrastructure for your organization’s data ecosystem can be a daunting task. To make things worse, many of these services don’t integrate with each other out of the box, creating major headaches for data analysts who want to look at the bigger picture regarding their company’s data. Businesses generally address this issue either by hiring staff to operate the various platforms independently, (The Login>Select>Filter>Download>Process-in-spreadsheet routine) or by paying for the costly custom development of various data bridges which can be chaotic and expensive as data sources from new services are continuously added to the ecosystem.
Businesses Crave Automation and Truly Seamless Data Integration
Dataddo is a universal analytics, advertising and customer data pipeline allowing data integration, automation and transformation. Our platform is designed to work with almost any online data service and already covers existing popular analytics platforms, CRMs, adtech solutions and social networks. Dataddo transforms and wires data to a wide range of databases, DWHs, cloud storages and dashboarding/BI applications allowing for smooth and simple integration with your existing IT and BI stacks. Dataddo creates simplicity for organizations in the expanding and increasingly chaotic data analytics ecosystem.
Openness and Flexibility are Crucial
We believe that the ever-growing dispersity of online data sources will eventually force most companies with considerable internet activities to deploy a data integration solution. We built Dataddo with openness and flexibility as our core driving concepts, leading to a solution that works even for organizations with legacy systems or proprietary solutions.
It is Not Just About Software
At Dataddo, we are all data-crazy. This mentality helps us understand the importance of being effective and efficient when it comes to working with data. Our mission is to help our clients use the ever-growing amount of data to their advantage rather than having it complicate things. For example, one of our clients is of the largest marketing agencies in the EU and they manage hundreds of Facebook, Instagram and Google campaigns on behalf of their clients. In the past, it would take two analysts and 4 full days of work at the beginning of each month to create performance reports for their various campaigns. The chain of tasks ranging from obtaining the data itself, through data transformation, to delivery to the client’s endpoints was automated by Dataddo saving them dozens of hours each month and obviously quite a bit of money. After deploying our software, the client can now dedicate those 8 saved man-days to more important tasks that will drive the development of its business.
The rapid development of the technology is profoundly changing our society, businesses and even ourselves. Media is, without doubts, the sector that has been dramatically affected by recent advances in the technology. In the chronological order, there was a significant emergence of online news portals at the beginning of 21st century, ruining many newspapers and magazines. Followed by YouTube and other video streaming services, whose proliferation caused major headaches to all traditional TV broadcasters, killed brick-and-mortar video renting industry and turned the video-distribution market on the head. Seeking new revenue streams, many big media houses reshaped their strategies and adopted digitalisation policies and started developing own digital divisions. However, as social media emerged in late 00’s, Facebook and Twitter, in particular, the new challenges even for newly-coming digital media keep steadily rising.
Weak brands
Successful online media portals after its emergence gradually built strong brands and were enjoying a surplus of somewhat cheap direct traffic, as users usually had a couple of top-of-mind online portals they were regularly surfing at. Given the fact, that such traffic could be easily monetised via display advertising or paid press releases, investments into digital media promised substantial long-term profits. However, in the last couple of years, the trend somewhat turned around as online media brands are being weakened by an increasing number of gate-keeping services such as social media, news aggregators or recommendation engines. So, instead of accessing favourite online media brands directly, using such gate-keeping is leading to weakening the brands. Furthermore, as traffic distribution algorithms are rather obscure, digital brands are losing control on their audiences.
Loss of direct traffic audience
Weaker brand from the web analytics perspective is resulting in profound changes in traffic source distribution, shifting from direct – i.e. someone typing URL into a browser address bar – to referrals, social shares, organic searches or even paid promotions. As a result of this shift, online media are increasingly at to mercy of such gatekeeping services. Clear prove to this statement is a recent change in Facebook’s post display algorithms, causing a significant drop in audience reach for organic posts. To maintain previous reach levels, publishers had to employ paid promotion, which is indeed further jeopardising once-positive business cases.
Changes in content consumption
With more content, sources and channels available, the typical consumption behaviour is changing towards less-time-less-content pattern. Social media, in particular, get along with this trend as more news are consumed in the form Facebook posts, Tweets or even Instagram photos. For the media on the other hand, as more content is being consumed outside owned channels, it is increasingly difficult to reconcile even the basic performance metrics.
Proliferation and demand for data analytics
Expanding and increasingly diverse nature of data sources operated by digital media drives the demand for data platforms as well as the proliferation and demand for data analytics in the media business. Given the fact, that it is difficult to reconcile even the basic media performance metrics and the fact that digital media must quickly adopt data-driven business processes, the key component of such data platforms is flexibility, i.e. ability to accommodate all those diverse data sources. Moreover, with lagging revenues from online advertising and fierce competition, cost-effectiveness in another important factor.
Dataddo is helping on-line media with pursuing their data-driven decisions
In Dataddo, we built our data platform with a simple objective – being able to work with any online data source providing it has an API – regardless the shape or form on the one hand, and on the other hand is easily interoperable with any existing IT infrastructure businesses might have. This makes Dataddo platform suitable for digital media in particular, as we are able to accommodate the great diversity data sources, that digital media are usually working with and indeed have the flexibility to swiftly implement any newly emerging. Dataddo platform is operated in cloud ensuring cost-effectiveness and thanks to the well-thought user interface can be operated even by non-tech users.
