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    • Discover the key concepts in the Connectors

    The Connectors, being the central repository for all your data assets on the platform, is one of the most critical components in your Project

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    The Connectors, being the central repository for all your data assets on the platform, is one of the most critical components in your Project. With the ease to connect, extract your data,the Platform allows you to understand your data well at an early stage. This will help you start progressing on it, rather than spending a lot of time just to clean and manage the infrastructure of your data.

    The Connectors component has 4 sub-components, corresponding to its main features:

    • Overview giving information on the various data sources (like their distribution, issues related to them, associated blueprint rules, execution analysis)

    • Sources to connect external data from any of the supported sources. You can either import the data into your the Platform Project, or, for compatible connectors, directly query this source for analytics purposes.

    • Analyzer to extract the metadata of your sources and apply basic cleaning rules to them

    • Consumers allow you to connect external analytics tools to your Project and build reports and dashboards using softwares that you are familiar with.

    • Jobs to give all users an overall overview of all the jobs and their status

    Within the Connectors, once you have collected your sources, you can analyze them by extracting their metadata and by applying data cleaning rules (called blueprint rules) to improve your data quality. These rules will be automatically applied by the Data Processing Engine, whenever a job on a data source is executed. Plug-in external Consumers like Power BI

    Next, through the Jobs tab, you will be able to view the summary of your job performances. It provides you with quick hand information like status of jobs, jobs run overtime, job’s runtime, also running jobs, queued jobs, past jobs executed.

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