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⇱ Access Live NetSuite Data in TIBCO Data Virtualization

Access Live NetSuite Data in TIBCO Data Virtualization

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Use the NetSuite Tibco DV Adapter to create a NetSuite data source in TIBCO Data Virtualization Studio and gain access to live NetSuite data from your TDV Server.

TIBCO Data Virtualization (TDV) is an enterprise data virtualization solution that orchestrates access to multiple and varied data sources. When paired with the NetSuite Tibco DV Adapter, you get federated access to live NetSuite data directly within TIBCO Data Virtualization. This article explains how to deploy an adapter and create a new data source based on NetSuite.

With built-in optimized data processing, the CData TIBCO DV Adapter offers unmatched performance for interacting with live NetSuite data. When you issue complex SQL queries to NetSuite, the adapter pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to NetSuite. Its built-in dynamic metadata querying allows you to work with and analyze NetSuite data using native data types.

About NetSuite Data Integration

CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from Oracle NetSuite. Customers use CData connectivity to:

  • Access all editions of NetSuite, including Standard, CRM, and OneWorld.
  • Connect with all versions of the SuiteTalk API (SOAP-based) and SuiteQL, which functions like SQL, enabling easier data querying and manipulation.
  • Access predefined and custom reports through support for Saved Searches.
  • Securely authenticate with Token-based and OAuth 2.0, ensuring compatibility and security for all use cases.
  • Use SQL stored procedures to perform functional actions like uploading or downloading files, attaching or detaching records or relationships, retrieving roles, getting extra table or column info, getting job results, and more.

Customers use CData solutions to access live NetSuite data from their preferred analytics tools, Power BI and Excel. They also use CData's solutions to integrate their NetSuite data into comprehensive databases and data warehouse using CData Sync directly or leveraging CData's compatibility with other applications like Azure Data Factory. CData also helps Oracle NetSuite customers easily write apps that can pull data from and push data to NetSuite, allowing organizations to integrate data from other sources with NetSuite.

For more information about our Oracle NetSuite solutions, read our blog: Drivers in Focus Part 2: Replicating and Consolidating ... NetSuite Accounting Data.


Getting Started


Deploy the NetSuite TIBCO DV Adapter

  1. In a console, navigate to the bin folder in the TDV Server installation directory. If there is a current version of the adapter installed, you will need to undeploy it.

    .\server_util.bat -server localhost -user admin -password ******** -undeploy -version 1 -name NetSuite

  2. Extract the CData TIBCO DV Adapter to a local folder and deploy the JAR file (tdv.netsuite.jar) to the server from the extract location.

    .\server_util.bat -server localhost -user admin -password ******** -deploy -package /PATH/TO/tdv.netsuite.jar

You may need to restart the server to ensure the new JAR file is loaded properly, which can be accomplished by running the composite.bat script located at: C:\Program Files\TIBCO\TDV Server <version>\bin. Note that reauthenticating to the TDV Studio is required after restarting the server.

Sample Restart Call

.\composite.bat monitor restart
Once you deploy the adapter, you can create a new data source in TDV Studio for NetSuite.

Create a NetSuite Data Source in TDV Studio

With the NetSuite Tibco DV Adapter, you can easily create a data source for NetSuite and introspect the data source to add resources to TDV.

Create the Data Source

  1. Right-click on the folder you wish to add the data source to and select New -> New Data Source
  2. Scroll until you find the adapter (e.g. NetSuite) and click Next
  3. Name the data source (e.g. CData NetSuite Source)
  4. Fill in the required connection properties

    5. The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid NetSuite user credentials. In addition, the AccountId must be set to the ID of a company account that can be used by the specified User. The RoleId can be optionally specified to log in the user with limited permissions.

    See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for more information on connecting to NetSuite.

    👁 Filling in Connection Information (Salesforce is shown.)
  5. Click Create & Close.

Introspect the Data Source

Once the data source is created, you can introspect the data source by right-clicking and selecting Open. In the dashboard, click Add/Remove Resources and select the Tables, Views, and Stored Procedures to include as part of the data source. Click Next and Finish to add the selected NetSuite tables, views, and stored procedures as resources.

👁 Introspecting the Data Source (Salesforce is shown.)

After creating and introspecting the data source, you are ready to work with NetSuite data in TIBCO Data Virtualization just like you would any other relational data source. You can create views, query using SQL, publish the data source, and more.