Diana Annie Jenosh

3 results

Dissecting Open Banking with MongoDB: Technical Challenges and Solutions

Thank you to Ainhoa Múgica for her contributions to this post. Unleashing a disruptive wave in the banking industry, open banking (or open finance), as the term indicates, has compelled financial institutions (banks, insurers, fintechs, corporates, and even government bodies) to embrace a new era of transparency, collaboration, and innovation. This paradigm shift requires banks to openly share customer data with third-party providers (TPPs), driving enhanced customer experiences and fostering the development of innovative fintech solutions by combining ‘best-of-breed’ products and services. As of 2020, 24.7 million individuals worldwide used open banking services, a number that is forecast to reach 132.2 million by 2024. This rising trend fuels competition, spurs innovation, and fosters partnerships between traditional banks and agile fintech companies. In this transformative landscape, MongoDB, a leading developer data platform, plays a vital role in supporting open banking by providing a secure, scalable, and flexible infrastructure for managing and protecting shared customer data. By harnessing the power of MongoDB's technology, financial institutions can lower costs, improve customer experiences, and mitigate the potential risks associated with the widespread sharing of customer data through strict regulatory compliance. Figure 1: An Example Open Banking Architecture The essence of open banking/finance is about leveraging common data exchange protocols to share financial data and services with 3rd parties. In this blog, we will dive into the technical challenges and solutions of open banking from a data and data services perspective and explore how MongoDB empowers financial institutions to overcome these obstacles and unlock the full potential of this open ecosystem. Dynamic environments and standards As open banking standards continue to evolve, financial institutions must remain adaptable to meet changing regulations and industry demands. Traditional relational databases often struggle to keep pace with the dynamic requirements of open banking due to their rigid schemas that are difficult to change and manage over time. In countries without standardized open banking frameworks, banks and third-party providers face the challenge of developing multiple versions of APIs to integrate with different institutions, creating complexity and hindering interoperability. Fortunately, open banking standards or guidelines (eg. Europe, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia, etc) have generally required or recommended that the open APIs be RESTful and support JSON data format, which creates a basis for common data exchange. MongoDB addresses these challenges by offering a flexible developer data platform that natively supports JSON data format, simplifies data modeling, and enables flexible schema changes for developers. With features like the MongoDB Data API and GraphQL API , developers can reduce development and maintenance efforts by easily exposing data in a low-code manner. The Stable API feature ensures compatibility during database upgrades, preventing code breaks and providing a seamless transition. Additionally, MongoDB provides productivity-boosting features like full-text search , data visualization , data federation , mobile database synchronization , and other app services enabling developers to accelerate time-to-market. With MongoDB's capabilities, financial institutions and third-party providers can navigate the changing open banking landscape more effectively, foster collaboration, and deliver innovative solutions to customers. An example of a client who leverages MongoDB’s native JSON data management and flexibility is Natwest. Natwest is a major retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom based in London, England. The bank has moved from zero to 900 million API calls per month within years, as open banking uptake grows and is expected to grow 10 times in coming years. At a MongoDB event on 15 Nov 2022, Jonathan Haggarty, Natwest’s Head of “Bank of APIs” Technology – an API ecosystem that brings the retail bank’s services to partners – shared in his presentation titled Driving Customer Value using API Data that Natwest’s growing API ecosystem lets it “push a bunch of JSON data into MongoDB [which makes it] “easy to go from simple to quite complex information" and also makes it easier to obfuscate user details through data masking for customer privacy. Natwest is enabled to surface customer data insights for partners via its API ecosystem, for example “where customers are on the e-commerce spectrum”, the “best time [for retailers] to push discounts” as well insights on “most valuable customers” – with data being used for problem-solving; analytics and insight; and reporting. Performance In the dynamic landscape of open banking, meeting the unpredictable demands for performance, scalability, and availability is crucial. The efficiency of applications and the overall customer experience heavily rely on the responsiveness of APIs. However, building an open banking platform becomes intricate when accommodating third-party providers with undisclosed business and technical requirements. Without careful management, this can lead to unforeseen performance issues and increased costs. Open banking demands high performance of the APIs under all kinds of workload volumes. OBIE recommends an average TTLB (time to last byte) of 750 ms per endpoint response for all payment invitations (except file payments) and account information APIs. Compliance with regulatory service level agreements (SLAs) in certain jurisdictions further adds to the complexity. Legacy architectures and databases often struggle to meet these demanding criteria, necessitating extensive changes to ensure scalability and optimal performance. That's where MongoDB comes into play. MongoDB is purpose-built to deliver exceptional performance with its WiredTiger storage engine and its compression capabilities. Additionally, MongoDB Atlas improves the performance following its intelligent index and schema suggestions, automatic data tiering, and workload isolation for analytics. One prime illustration of its capabilities is demonstrated by Temenos, a renowned financial services application provider, achieving remarkable transaction volume processing performance and efficiency by leveraging MongoDB Atlas. They recently ran a benchmark with MongoDB Atlas and Microsoft Azure and successfully processed an astounding 200 million embedded finance loans and 100 million retail accounts at a record-breaking 150,000 transactions per second . This showcases the power and scalability of MongoDB with unparalleled performance to empower financial institutions to effectively tackle the challenges posed by open banking. MongoDB ensures outstanding performance, scalability, and availability to meet the ever-evolving demands of the industry. Scalability Building a platform to serve TPPs, who may not disclose their business usages and technical/performance requirements, can introduce unpredictable performance and cost issues if not managed carefully. For instance, a bank in Singapore faced an issue where their Open APIs experienced peak loads and crashes every Wednesday. After investigation, they discovered that one of the TPPs ran a promotional campaign every Wednesday, resulting in a surge of API calls that overwhelmed the bank's infrastructure. A scalable solution that can perform under unpredictable workloads is critical, besides meeting the performance requirements of a certain known volume of transactions. MongoDB's flexible architecture and scalability features address these concerns effectively. With its distributed document-based data model, MongoDB allows for seamless scaling both vertically and horizontally. By leveraging sharding , data can be distributed across multiple nodes, ensuring efficient resource utilization and enabling the system to handle high transaction volumes without compromising performance. MongoDB's auto-sharding capability enables dynamic scaling as the workload grows, providing financial institutions with the flexibility to adapt to changing demands and ensuring a smooth and scalable open banking infrastructure. Availability In the realm of open banking, availability becomes a critical challenge. With increased reliance on banking services by third-party providers (TPPs), ensuring consistent availability becomes more complex. Previously, banks could bring down certain services during off-peak hours for maintenance. However, with TPPs offering 24x7 experiences, any downtime is unacceptable. This places greater pressure on banks to maintain constant availability for Open API services, even during planned maintenance windows or unforeseen events. MongoDB Atlas, the fully managed global cloud database service, addresses these availability challenges effectively. With its multi-node cluster and multi-cloud DBaaS capabilities, MongoDB Atlas ensures high availability and fault tolerance. It offers the flexibility to run on multiple leading cloud providers, allowing banks to minimize concentration risk and achieve higher availability through a distributed cluster across different cloud platforms. The robust replication and failover mechanisms provided by MongoDB Atlas guarantee uninterrupted service and enable financial institutions to provide reliable and always-available open banking APIs to their customers and TPPs. Security and privacy Data security and consent management are paramount concerns for banks participating in open banking. The exposure of authentication and authorization mechanisms to third-party providers raises security concerns and introduces technical complexities regarding data protection. Banks require fine-grained access control and encryption mechanisms to safeguard shared data, including managing data-sharing consent at a granular level. Furthermore, banks must navigate the landscape of data privacy laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which impose strict requirements distinct from traditional banking regulations. MongoDB offers a range of solutions to address these security and privacy challenges effectively. Queryable Encryption provides a mechanism for managing encrypted data within MongoDB, ensuring sensitive information remains secure even when shared with third-party providers. MongoDB's comprehensive encryption features cover data-at-rest and data-in-transit, protecting data throughout its lifecycle. MongoDB's flexible schema allows financial institutions to capture diverse data requirements for managing data sharing consent and unify user consent from different countries into a single data store, simplifying compliance with complex data privacy laws. Additionally, MongoDB's geo-sharding capabilities enable compliance with data residency laws by ensuring relevant data and consent information remain in the closest cloud data center while providing optimal response times for accessing data. To enhance data privacy further, MongoDB offers field-level encryption techniques, enabling symmetric encryption at the field level to protect sensitive data (e.g., personally identifiable information) even when shared with TPPs. The random encryption of fields adds an additional layer of security and enables query operations on the encrypted data. MongoDB's Queryable Encryption technique further strengthens security and defends against cryptanalysis, ensuring that customer data remains protected and confidential within the open banking ecosystem. Activity monitoring With numerous APIs offered by banks in the open banking ecosystem, activity monitoring and troubleshooting become critical aspects of maintaining a robust and secure infrastructure. MongoDB simplifies activity monitoring through its monitoring tools and auditing capabilities. Administrators and users can track system activity at a granular level, monitoring database system and application events. MongoDB Atlas has Administration APIs , which one can use to programmatically manage the Atlas service. For example, one can use the Atlas Administration API to create database deployments, add users to those deployments, monitor those deployments, and more. These APIs can help with the automation of CI/CD pipelines as well as monitoring the activities on the data platform enabling developers and administrators to be freed of this mundane effort and focus on generating more business value. Performance monitoring tools, including the performance advisor, help gauge and optimize system performance, ensuring that APIs deliver exceptional user experiences. Figure 2: Activity Monitoring on MongoDB Atlas MongoDB Atlas Charts , an integrated feature of MongoDB Atlas, offers analytics and visualization capabilities. Financial institutions can create business intelligence dashboards using MongoDB Atlas Charts. This eliminates the need for expensive licensing associated with traditional business intelligence tools, making it cost-effective as more TPPs utilize the APIs. With MongoDB Atlas Charts, financial institutions can offer comprehensive business telemetry data to TPPs, such as the number of insurance quotations, policy transactions, API call volumes, and performance metrics. These insights empower financial institutions to make data-driven decisions, improve operational efficiency, and optimize the customer experience in the open banking ecosystem. Figure 3: Atlas Charts Sample Dashboard Real-Timeliness Open banking introduces new challenges for financial institutions as they strive to serve and scale amidst unpredictable workloads from TPPs. While static content poses fewer difficulties, APIs requiring real-time updates or continuous streaming, such as dynamic account balances or ESG-adjusted credit scores, demand capabilities for near-real-time data delivery. To enable applications to immediately react to real-time changes or changes as they occur, organizations can leverage MongoDB Change Streams that are based on its aggregation framework to react to data changes in a single collection, a database, or even an entire deployment. This capability further enhances MongoDB’s real-time data and event processing and analytics capabilities. MongoDB offers multiple mechanisms to support data streaming, including a Kafka connector for event-driven architecture and a Spark connector for streaming with Spark. These solutions empower financial institutions to meet the real-time data needs of their open banking partners effectively, enabling seamless integration and real-time data delivery for enhanced customer experiences. Conclusion MongoDB's technical capabilities position it as a key enabler for financial institutions embarking on their open banking journey. From managing dynamic environments and accommodating unpredictable workloads to ensuring scalability, availability, security, and privacy, MongoDB provides a comprehensive set of tools and features to address the challenges of open banking effectively. With MongoDB as the underlying infrastructure, financial institutions can navigate the ever-evolving open banking landscape with confidence, delivering innovative solutions, and driving the future of banking. Embracing MongoDB empowers financial institutions to unlock the full potential of open banking and provide exceptional customer experiences in this era of collaboration and digital transformation. If you would like to learn more about how you can leverage MongoDB for your open banking infrastructure, take a look at the below resources: Open banking panel discussion: future-proof your bank in a world of changing data and API standards with MongoDB, Celent, Icon Solutions, and AWS How a data mesh facilitates open banking Financial services hub

June 6, 2023

MongoDB Atlas as the Data Hub for Smart Manufacturing with Microsoft Azure

All the source code used in this project, along with a detailed deployment guide, is available on our public Github page . Manufacturing companies are emerging from the pandemic with a renewed focus on digital transformation and smart factories investment. COVID-19 has heightened the need for Industrial IoT technology and innovation as consumers have moved towards online channels, forcing manufacturers to compete in a digitalized business environment. The manufacturing ecosystem can be viewed as a multi-dimensional grouping of systems designed to support the various business units in manufacturing organizations such as operations, engineering, maintenance, and learning & development functions. Process and equipment data is generated on the shop floor from machines and systems such as SCADA and then stored in a process historian or an operational database. The data originating from shop floor devices are generally structured time series data acquired through regular polling and sampling. Historians provide fast insertion rates of time series data, with capacities that reach up to tens of thousands of PLC tags processed per second. They rely on efficient data compression engines which can either be lossy or lossless. Traditional RDBMS storage comes packaged with the manufacturing software applications such as a Manufacturing Execution System (MES). Relational databases are traditionally common in manufacturing systems and thus the choice of database systems for these manufacturing applications are typically driven by historical preferences. Manufacturing companies have long relied on using several databases and data warehouses to accommodate various transactional and analytical workloads. The strategy of separating operational and analytical systems has worked well so far and has caused least interference with the operational process. However this strategy will not fare well in the near future for two reasons: Manufacturers are generating high volume, variety and veracity data using advanced IIoT platforms to create a more connected product ecosystem. The growth of IIoT data has been rapid and in fact, McKinsey and Company estimates that companies will spend over $175B in IIoT and edge computing hardware by 2025. A traditional manufacturing systems setup necessitates the deployment and maintenance of several technologies including graph databases (for asset digital models and relationships) and time series databases (for time series sensor data) and leads to IT sprawl across the organization. A complex infrastructure causes latency and delays in data access which leads to non-realization of real time insights for improving manufacturing operations. To establish an infrastructure that can enable real time analytics, companies need real time access to data and information to make the right decision in time. Analytics can no longer be a separate process, it needs to be brought into the application. The applications have to be supplied with notifications and alerts instantly. This is where application-driven analytics platforms such as MongoDB Atlas come into picture. We understand that to build smarter and faster applications, we can no longer rely on maintaining separate systems for different transactional and analytical workloads. Moving data between disparate systems takes time and energy and results in longer time to market and slower speed of innovation. Many of our customers start out using MongoDB as an operational database for both new cloud-native services as well as modernized legacy apps. More and more of these clients are now improving customer experience and speeding business insight by adopting application-driven analytics within the MongoDB Atlas platform. They use MongoDB to support use cases in real-time analytics, customer 360, internet of Things (IoT) and mobile applications across all industry sectors. As mentioned before, Manufacturing ecosystem employs a lot of databases just to run production operations. Once IIoT solutions are added to the mix, each solution (shown in yellow in Figure 1) may come with its own database (Time Series, relational, graph etc.) and the number of databases will increase dramatically. With MongoDB Atlas, this IT sprawl can be reduced as multiple use cases can be enabled using MongoDB Atlas (Figure 2). The versatility of the document model to structure data any way the application needs, coupled with an expressive API and indexing that allows you to query data any way you want is a powerful value proposition. The benefits of MongoDB Atlas are amplified by the platform’s versatility to address almost any workload. Atlas combines transactional processing, application-driven analytics, relevance-based search, and mobile edge computing with cloud sync. These capabilities can be applied to almost every type of modern applications being built for the digital economy by developers. Figure 1: IT sprawl with IIoT and analytics solutions deployment in Manufacturing Figure 2: MongoDB Atlas simplifying road to Smart Manufacturing MongoDB and Hyperscalers leading the way for smart manufacturing Manufacturers who are actively investing in digital transformation and IIoT are experiencing an exponential growth in data. All this data offers opportunities for new business models and digital customer experiences. To drive the right outcomes from all this data, manufacturers are setting up scalable infrastructures using Hyperscalers such as Azure, AWS and GCP. These hyperscalers offer a suite of components for efficient, scalable implementation of IIoT platforms. Companies are leveraging these accelerators to quickly build solutions, which help access, organize, and analyze previously untapped data from sensors, devices, and applications. In this article, we are focused on how MongoDB integrates with Microsoft Azure IoT modules and acts as the digital data hub for smart manufacturing use cases. MongoDB and Microsoft have been partners since 2019, but last year it was expanded, enabling developers to build data intensive applications within the Azure marketplace and Azure portal. This enables an enhanced developer experience and allows burn down of their Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment. The alliance got further boost when Microsoft included MongoDB as a partner in its newly launched Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform Ecosystem . MongoDB Atlas can be deployed in 35 regions in Azure and has seamless integration with most of the Azure Developer services (Azure functions, App services, ADS), Analytics services (Azure Synapse), Data Governance (Microsoft Purview), ETL (ADF) and cross cutting services (AD, KMS, AKS etc.) powering building of innovative solutions. Example scenario: Equipment failure prediction Imagine a manufacturing facility that has sensors installed in their Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines measuring parameters such as temperature, torque, rotational speed and tool wear. A sensor gateway converts analog sensor data to digital values and pushes it to Azure IoT Edge which acts as a gateway between factory and the Cloud. This data is transmitted to Azure IoT Hub where the IoT Edge is registered as an end device. Once we have the data in the IoT Hub, Azure Stream Analytics can be utilized to filter the data so that only relevant information flows into the MongoDB Atlas Cluster. The connection between Stream Analytics and MongoDB is done via an Azure Function. This filtered sensor data inside MongoDB is used for following purposes: To provide data for machine learning model that will predict the root cause of machine failure based on sensor data. To act as a data store for prediction results that can be utilized by business intelligence tools such as PowerBI using Atlas SQL Interface. To store the trained machine learning model checkpoint in binary encoded format inside a collection. The overall architecture is shown in Figure 3. Figure 3: Overall architecture Workflow: The sensors in the factory are sending time series measurements to Azure IoT Hub. These sensors are measuring for multiple machines: Product Type Air Temperature (°C) Process Temperature (°C) Rotational Speed Torque Tool Wear (min) IoT Hub will feed these sensor data to Azure Stream Analytics, where the data will be filtered and pushed to MongoDB Atlas time series collections. The functionality of Stream Analytics can be extended by implementing machine learning models to do real-time predictive analytics on streaming input data. The prediction results can also be stored in MongoDB in a separate collection. The sensor data contains the device_id field which helps us filter data coming from different machines. As MongoDB is a document database, we do not need to create multiple tables to store this data, in fact we can just use one collection for all the sensor data coming from various devices or machines. Once the data is received in MongoDB, sum and mean values of sensor data will be calculated for the predefined production shift duration and the results will be pushed to MongoDB Atlas Charts for visualization. MongoDB Time series window functions are used in an aggregation pipeline to produce the desired result. When a machine stoppage or breakdown occurs during the course of production, it may lead to downtime because the operator has to find out the cause of the failure before the machine can be put back into production. The sensor data collected from the machines can be used to train a machine learning model that can automatically predict the root cause when a failure occurs and significantly reduce the time spent on manual root cause finding on the shop floor. This can lead to increased availability of machines and thus more production time per shift. To achieve this goal, our first task is to identify the types of failures we want to predict. We can work with the machine owners and operators to identify the most common failure types and note that down. With this important step completed, we can identify the data sources that have relevant data about that failure type. If need be, we can update the Stream Analytics filter as well. Once the right data is identified, we train a Decision Tree Classifier model in Azure Machine Learning and deploy it as a binary value as a separate collection inside MongoDB. Atlas Scheduled Triggers are used to trigger the model (via an Azure Function) and the failure prediction results are written back results into a separate Failures collection in MongoDB. Scheduled triggers’ schedule can be aligned to production schedule so that it only fires when a changeover occurs for example. After a failure is detected, the operator and supervisor needs to be notified immediately. Using App Services, a mobile application is developed to send notifications and alerts to floor supervisor and machine operator once a failure root cause is predicted. Figure 4 shows the mobile app user interface where the user has an option to acknowledge the alert. Thanks to Atlas Device Sync , even when the mobile device is facing unreliable connectivity, the data keeps in sync between Atlas cluster and Realm database in the app. MongoDB’s Realm , is an embedded database technology already used on millions of mobile phones as part of mobile apps as well as infotainment like systems. FIgure 4: Alert app user interface Business benefits of using MongoDB Atlas as smart manufacturing data hub Scalability: MongoDB is a highly scalable document based database that can handle large amounts of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. Native time series collections are available that help with storing large amounts of data generated by IIoT enabled equipment in a highly compressed manner. Flexibility: MongoDB stores data in a flexible, JSON-like format, which makes it easy to store and query data in a variety of ways. This flexibility makes it well-suited for handling the different data structures needed to store sensor data, ML models and prediction results, all in one database. This removes the need for maintaining separate databases for each type of data reducing IT sprawl in manufacturing organizations. Real-time Analytics: As sensor data comes in, MongoDB aggregation pipelines can help in generating features to be used for machine learning models. Atlas Charts can be set up in minutes to visualize important features and their trends in near real time. BI Analytics: Analysts can use the Atlas SQL interface to access MongoDB data from SQL based tools. This allows them to work with rich, multi-structured documents without defining a schema or flattening data. In a connected factory setting, this can be useful to generate reports for failures over a period of time and comparison between different equipment failures types. Data can be blended from MongoDB along with other sources of data to provide a 360 degree view of production operations. Faster Mobile Application Development: Atlas device sync bidirectionally connects and synchronizes Realm databases inside mobile applications with the MongoDB Atlas backend, leading to faster mobile application development and less time needed for maintenance of deployed applications. Conclusion The MongoDB Atlas developer data platform is designed and engineered to help speed up your journey towards smart manufacturing. It is not just suitable for high speed time series workloads but also for workloads that power mobile applications and BI Dashboards – leading to smarter applications, increased productivity and eventually smarter factories. Learn more All the source code used in this project, along with a detailed deployment guide, is available on our public Github page . To learn more about how MongoDB enables IIoT for our customers, please visit our IIoT use cases page . Get started today with MongoDB Atlas on Azure Marketplace listing .

February 27, 2023

Build Analytics-Driven Apps with MongoDB Atlas and the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform

Customers increasingly expect engaging applications informed by real-time operational analytics, yet meeting these expectations can be difficult. MongoDB Atlas is a popular operational data platform that makes it straightforward to manage critical business data at scale. For some applications, however, enterprises may also want to apply insights gleaned from data warehouse, business intelligence (BI), and related solutions, and many enterprises depend on the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform to apply analytics and governance solutions to operational data stores. MongoDB and Microsoft have partnered to make it simple to use the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform to glean and apply comprehensive analytical insights to data stored in MongoDB. This article details how enterprises can successfully use MongoDB with the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform to build more engaging, analytics-driven applications. Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform + MongoDB MongoDB Atlas provides a unified interface for developers to build distributed, serverless, and mobile applications with support for diverse workload types including operational, real-time analytics, and search. With the ability to model graph, geospatial, tabular, document, time series, and other forms of data, developers don’t have to go for multiple niche databases, which results in highly complex, polyglot architectures. The Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform offers a single platform for databases, analytics, and data governance by integrating Microsoft’s database, analytics, and data governance products. In addition to all Azure database services, the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform includes Azure Synapse Analytics for data warehousing and analytics, Power BI for BI reporting, and Microsoft Purview for enterprise data governance requirements. Although customers have always been able to apply the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform services to MongoDB data, doing so hasn't always been as simple as it could be. Through this new integration, customers gain a seamless way to run analytics and data warehousing operations on the operational data they store in MongoDB Atlas. Customers can also more easily use Microsoft Purview to manage and run data governance policies against their most critical MongoDB data, thereby ensuring compliance and security. Finally, through Power BI customers are empowered to easily query and extract insights from MongoDB data using powerful in-built and custom visualizations. Let’s deep dive into each of these integrations. Operationalize insights with MongoDB Atlas and Azure Synapse Analytics MongoDB Atlas is an Operational Data Platform which can handle multiple workload types including transactional, search, operational analytics, etc. It can cater to multiple application types including distributed, serverless, mobile, etc. For data warehousing workloads, long-running analytics, and AI/ML, we compliment Azure Synapse Analytics very well. MongoDB Atlas can be easily integrated as a source or as a sink resource in Azure Synapse Analytics. This connector is useful to: Fetch all the MongoDB Atlas historical data into Synapse Retrieve incremental data for a period based on filter criteria in a batch mode, to run SQL based or Spark based analytics The sink connector allows you to store the analytics results back to MongoDB, which can then power applications enabled on top of it. Many enterprises require real-time analytics, for example, in fraud detection, anomaly detection of IoT devices, predicting stock depletion, and maintenance of machinery, where a delay in getting insights could cause serious repercussions. MongoDB and Microsoft have worked together to come up with the best practice architecture for the same which can be found in this article . Figure 1: Schematic showing integration of MongoDB with Azure Synapse Analytics. Business intelligence reporting and visualization with PowerBI Together, MongoDB Atlas and Microsoft PowerBI offer a sophisticated real-time data platform, providing customers with the ability to present specialized operational and analytical query engines on the same data sets. Information on connecting from PowerBI desktop to MongoDB is available in the official documentation . MongoDB is also excited to announce the forthcoming MongoDB Atlas Power BI Connector that will expose the richness of the JSON document data with Power BI (see Figure 2). This MongoDB Atlas Power BI Connector allows users to unlock access to their Atlas cloud data. Figure 2: Schematic showing integration of MongoDB and Microsoft Power BI. Beyond providing mere access to MongoDB Atlas data, this connector will provide a SQL interface to let you interact with semi-structured JSON data in a relational way, thereby ensuring you can take full advantage of Power BI's rich business intelligence capabilities. Importantly, through the connector, support is planned for two connectivity modes: import and direct. This new MongoDB Atlas Power BI Connector will be available in the first half of 2023. Conclusion Together with the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform offerings, MongoDB Atlas can help operationalize the insights driven from customers’ data spread across siloed legacy databases and help build modern applications with ease. With MongoDB Atlas on Microsoft Azure, developers receive access to the most comprehensive, secure, scalable, and cloud–based developer data platform in the market. Now, with the availability of Atlas on the Azure Marketplace, it’s never been easier for users to start building with Atlas while streamlining procurement and billing processes. Get started today through the MongoDB Atlas on Azure Marketplace listing .

January 10, 2023