Understanding Data Connectors

Data Connectors are the magic glue that helps you to bind your application, bot, or flow with any data store, including Microsoft Dataverse. These connectors allow citizen developers to connect to hundreds of standard business data stores, such as Adobe, Amazon Redshift, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Explorer, Dropbox, IBM DB2, DocuSign, Dynamics NAV, and Salesforce, in addition to social platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Professional developers can extend this model to build custom connectors to any data platform with public API support. As seen in the following screenshot, you can easily bring in the data from any of these data platforms listed earlier and quickly create low code/no-code applications to interact with this set of data:

Figure 2.10 – List of Data Connectors

With Data Connectors, the citizen developer doesn't need to know the details about the underlying connection mechanisms implemented...