Data Studio helps an individual or an organization arrange access and understand information. It provides a comprehensive view of the databases of an individual to large scale corporate from different sources, such as social media, analytics, advertising, survey, etc. or the organizational data sources including CRM, sales, finance, HR, etc. Also, any other data sources included in Data Studio can be accessed using AppScript over the internet.
Data source connectors are of three primary types:-
1. Google Connectors,
2. Partner Connectors, and
3. Open Source Connectors.
It is a vast ecosystem for paid and free connectors for Google Data Studio, as there are more than 300 Data Studio Connectors available now in the Data Studio Gallery.
Benefits of Data Studio Connectors:
¨ You can connect to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data sources, such as sheets, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Cycle, Cloud storage etc.
¨ Also, you can connect to several Google services like Google Analytics, Google Ads, Search Console, Attribution 360, YouTube Analytics, etc.
¨ There are more connectors available to connect to your instances of MySQL and PostgreSQL.
¨ Apart from these, if your data is available in some other sources, you can use Data Studio Community Connectors.
¨ You can build, organize and distribute Data Studio Community Connectors for free to connect with your users.
¨ Data Studio is free and easily accessible to the public around the world. That helps in opening data sets to promote an individual or organization.
¨ Data studio provides an accessible and influential reporting and analysis solution for your customers so that they can connect more easily with your business.
The typical lifecycle of Data Studio Community Connectors:
® Developing the Community Connector.
® The next step is testing and using the connector.
® Then, installing the connector.
® Finally, sharing or publishing the connector.
Data Studio Community Connectors:
Community Connectors are custom developed connectors, and as we have mentioned, you can create your connector using AppScript. AppScript is a Google scripting language and a JavaScript platform on the cloud and it makes your data available from almost every accessible internet data source. You can connect to your on-premise private data, private data on the cloud, commercial platform data, and public datasets through this. You can create customized reports and dashboards via community connectors in Data Studio. Also, you can get advantages of services and APIs such as caching, storage, translation, JDBC services, etc.
Once you build your own community connector, you can bring your own data into the data studio and encourage your co-worker to connect you for ease of work. Also, you can share your Data Studio Connectors with other users with the utmost security of your data. You can make your connector popular and available everywhere by publishing it in the Data Studio Partner Connector Gallery. Here more than 100 connectors available, which can connect you with more than 500 data sources to make your data widespread.
Hence, to analyze and organize your data thoroughly and correctly, you can use Data Studio Connectors. For that, you may connect to your data in Data Studio, or you can build your customized connector to quickly and easily import any data as needed in visual reports. Preciously, Data Studio Connectors helps you utilize your data in the utmost productive manner.
