It is a very common business requirement that in our job we may receive documents in some particular formats, which the business team would like to have them converted into PDF files. Such requirements arise from many of the advantages when using PDF formats for file exchanges, such as portability, universal compatibility, reliability, security, size reduction, versatility, professionalism, etc. Given such common requirement, it would be highly useful to have a tool that can pick up documents from a specific location and have them converted to a PDF files in an automated manner, such as an automated ETL process. In this blog post, we will show you how to easily achieve this using components from our SSIS Productivity Pack product offering.

This post will walk you through how to query the Dynamics Business Central/NAV REST API data by using the Premium OData Source component.

In this blog post we will demonstrate how to use the Premium OData Source component to work with SharePoint site data through Microsoft Graph REST API.

In our ETL development, we don't always receive the data in the exact format that we expect it to be. For instance, there might be cases that the incoming data is a string value while we expect an integer, or in some other cases, there might be unexpected whitespaces which can make the lookup difficult. This blog post will specifically cover the lookup scenario and show you how to achieve the lookup functionality without additional extra work.

It’s a very common practice to receive news updates using RSS feeds. Even though users are shifting to social media for getting news and headlines that are prominent, these platforms are controlled by algorithms that decide what news goes to which user, and users may see the headlines which the platform decides. RSS feeds provide all the contents that are published by the sources that can be subscribed to. Now, when it comes to integration, extracting RSS feeds data can be a challenging task without a proper tool. In our blog post here today, we will show how you could leverage KingswaySoft SSIS Productivity Pack to achieve this with ease, so that you could possibly consume the data in your ETL process with great control.

There are cases where you might need to work with a custom token for your HTTP connection's authentication. This is not very straightforward to achieve for your HTTP-based service calls. In this blog post, we will show you how you may leverage the Custom Token option offered in the KingswaySoft HTTP Connection Manager to extract such custom token and then use it in subsequent HTTP service calls.

KingswaySoft provides Email Source component in our SSIS Productivity Pack product which can be used to read email messages from your mailboxes. And this component supports EWS, IMAP and POP3 protocols, it can be used to read emails from various email systems, including Microsoft Office 365, Exchange Server, Gmail, and almost all other major email services. It is fairly easy to read messages when working with EWS and IMAP protocols. However it is not very straightforward to achieve so when working with the POP3 connections. In blog post, we will show you how we can achieve such incremental reading using POP3 connections.

Our Dynamics 365 toolkit offers an in-place lookup feature that provides many unique capabilities in supporting various lookup requirements. While the feature is extremely flexible and easy to use, there are certain limitations, such as it cannot be used in a transformation component, and it can support up to 2 different fields you can look up against for reach lookup configuration. In this blog post, we will demonstrate how you can use our recently released Premium Service Lookup component to perform some more advanced lookup scenarios when working with Dynamics 365 CDS/CRM/CE/Dataverse connections.