Destinations

Setting up writeback destinations in Inforiver Enterprise

Inforiver supports fast writeback setup and execution for several types of data destinations

• Database/ Data warehouses/ Data lake: Azure SQL, SQL Server, Synapse Analytics Dedicated SQL Pool, Azure Data Lake, Fabric lakehouse, Fabric warehouse, Dataverse, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, SAP HANA, Oracle, SingleStore, PostgreSQL, MySQL,

• File Destinations: OneDrive, SharePoint

• Webhook URLs: Can be used to trigger workflows in iPaaS such as Power Automate and Logic Apps)

Configuring writeback destination(s) is straightforward and involves the same procedure (picture below) for any destination.

Navigating to Inforiver writeback destination setup

A list of destinations will be displayed for the users to select from.

Configuring destinations for writeback is a straightforward process that will be covered in the upcoming sections.

Generic destination settings

1. Client-managed and Inforiver-managed destination

After configuring the destination, you can choose whether the destination should be client-managed or inforiver-managed. If you wish to restrict access to the database, opt for client-managed destinations.

• For Inforiver-managed destinations, creating the writeback table will be done automatically by Inforiver. Requisite permissions on the table need to be provided to Inforiver.

• For client-managed destinations, Inforiver will generate the scripts. You can manually execute them against the database.

Destination management

2. Decimal Precision

Inforiver rounds off all numeric values including percentages to a specified number of decimal points as per your configuration instructions. When you create the first connection, you can specify decimal precision for all connections in that report.

Decimal precision

When you apply the decimal precision shown in the image above, Inforiver writes back values (in this example, to Snowflake) rounded off to 5 decimal places.

Writeback percentage values

3. Batch writeback

When you configure individual writeback destinations, you'll notice a Btach Writeback option wherever applicable (batched writeback is not possible for destinations like Sharepoint, Rest API, OneDrive, etc). If your writeback payload exceeds 50k records, Inforiver can split the payload into multiple chunks and write them back batch-by-batch.

Batched writeback configuration

• Enable the Batched Write checkbox to use this feature.

• You can specify a custom table name or use the default table created by Inforiver to store batched data.

You can analyze the writeback log, which will capture how the payload has been split into multiple chunks and processed in parallel for a performance boost.

Writeback logs for batched data