Hi Lars,

Yes, DataMiner includes powerful data ingest and control plane capabilities, enabling operators to ingest data from any data source, irrespective of the interface or the protocol required, transparently across any vendor or domain boundaries, covering both hardware products, software products and cloud services.
This is because DataMiner uses an open driver format. All drivers (or connectors as we call them now) in a DataMiner System are designed in an open XML format. And because of the open architecture, anybody can design, build, and deploy new connectors for that purpose, or modify existing connectors, fully supporting devops operations. This guarantees that the users are completely independent from Skyline Communications as technology supplier, and if it deems necessary it can interface the platform with any new data source, including e.g. proprietary ones.

DataMiner is the unique combination of an off-the-shelf solution that offers you the full freedom to get it tightly integrated with your own operational ecosystem. Anything Skyline does to integrate this platform into a specific environment can be done by its stakeholders or any other third-party system integrator as well. This includes, next to designing new connectors, e.g. also creating new graphical user interfaces (views, report templates, dashboards, etc.), supported by the fact that the DataMiner Cube UI is fully compatible with Microsoft Visio®.

Another example, is industry-standard & proven big data: DataMiner is designed to leverage proven cutting-edge industry-standard open-architecture big data storage solution (Cassandra, Elastic Search).

Or the fact that DataMiner Automation Scripting is supporting JScript and C#.
And to conclude, DataMiner also runs an industry-standard hardware, readily available off-the-shelf.