I'm an educator-turned-technology evangelist, with a short stint as a software developer. In all of the work I've done, data has been critical, and as businesses, industries, and services grow, I can't help but notice the growth in the breadth and depth of data usage. A common interface to data frees enterprises from the burden of connecting to their data and frees them to focus on their own business. By leveraging CData drivers to access common SQL interfaces to more than 100 SaaS, Big Data, and NoSQL sources, developers can build solid, data-driven products and analysts and data scientists can quickly and easily build insights that drive business.While giving presentations, writing articles, engaging in webinars, and producing tutorial videos I get the opportunity to see first-hand the difference that standard connectivity makes, with regards to both the underlying data sources and the tools and apps consuming the data. Talk to me about partnering with CData to connect to your own organization's data, embedding connectivity into your data-driven solutions or building custom connectors for a new data source.