Overview for Business Analysts

Introduction

Data Connect is an API (Application Programming Interface) that lets you, as a QMATIC customer, access your data generated in QMATIC’s systems. It allows for direct access from business intelligence tools and system integration. To be compatible with all the different business intelligence tools and provide a good developer experience, QMATIC has chosen to use the OData protocol as the core technology for Data Connect.

Data time ranges

Data Connect consists of two OData URLs that give you the same data structure and same schema but with different data ranges. You will receive these two URLs in the Data Connect page in the QMATIC system. The two URLs end with either short-term or long-term.

Short term

Short term gives you data from the last 60 days. This is more suitable for near real time reporting or dashboards. It is also suitable for short term analysis.

Long term

The long term URL gives you data from a time range between 3 years before the start of the current until the current day. This is more suitable for long term analysis and reporting.

Ex: If the current date is 2022-05-01, the long term URL will give you data from 2019-01-01 until 2022-05-01.