Other functional use cases

Using API as a data source

Ylem not only easily supports any modern database, data warehouse, or any other kind of data storage as a data source but is also very easy to use any API endpoint that returns JSON data as a data source.

To do that just configure an API integration first:

API integration example

And then use it as a first task in the pipeline. The rest works the same way as with any other SQL-based data source.

Merge data from several sources

Often you don't have all necessary data stored in one storage but rather in a few ones. For example, the ones you have in your production database that are produced by your applications and the ones stored in your CRM.

Therefore before taking any action with data, you need to use Merge task:

Potential pipeline
How to configure merge task

Merge data from several sources consequently

Possible pipeline

Data to CSV report

Possible pipeline
Transforming data to CSV report

Calling API for each entity in the dataset

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