Another common scenario for an ISV is to provide end user site access to their cloud-hosted database for business intelligence (BI). In this deployment, end-users want the flexibility to use their favorite BI or reporting tool (such as Excel, Cognos, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Tableau, Qlik, or Microstrategy).

Figure 5 represents an architecture that would allow an ISV to expose cloud-hosted data to end-users, without exposing the underlying database directly to the internet. Hybrid Data Pipeline makes it easy to configure a secure and scalable, HTTPS-based communication channel to the database via standards-based SQL and REST interfaces compatible with virtually any end-user BI tool.

Figure 1. ISV Deployment for Exposing Data for Business Intelligence