What data connectors would you want in a BI/Dashboards SaaS service?

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I am the founder and CEO of AgileSense (agilesense.com) a cloud based business intelligence dashboards solution. We support CSV files, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MongoDB connectors. We are working on Google Spreadsheets and SharePoint connectors. I wanted to find out what other data sources should we have out of the box support for and hence the question.

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ODBC is a good common connector. I would also expect excelfiles to work, quite useful when doing temporary mockup stuff.

How do you compare with for example qlikview?

Thanks! Our BI/Dashboards product is targeted more towards business users (non-programmers-admins). I haven't evaluated qlikview but the goal is the same - insights from data aggregated from various internal/external data sources.

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