Dairy advisors and consultants rely on clean, standardized data to support their customers in improving herd performance. The challenge is getting easy access to said data. Moreover, this data can be spread across different software types making it impossible to compare and track performance between herds.
At Dairy Data Warehouse (DDW), we have been the industry’s data integration partner for over 13 years. Connecting to over 33 different software types and processing data of over 35 million cows/week from thousands of farms in 53 countries. In a world where dairy data is of utmost importance, we are at the forefront of this revolution and we strive to offer excellence. As a result, we have been working hard behind the scenes to bring our customers the latest platform upgrade with more features, integrations and functionalities.
What’s new
The upgraded platform brings DDW’s external APIs together in one centrally managed environment. Making it easier for our customers to use our systems, ensuring better monitoring and successful integration on a day to day basis.
With the upgrade, DDW has introduced several improvements designed around customer needs:
- Enhanced security: The new platform offers elevated security standards, all API connections pass through one controlled entry point. Any calls to the API are monitored allowing for faster problem identification. Moreover, customers can select their preferred authentication method to suit their own technical environment.
- Introducing benchmarking: One of the most exciting additions is access to DDW’s KPI benchmarking and peer-group data.With access to benchmarking data, customers can compare their herds’ KPIs against similar groups of herds or national averages. This helps them understand where performance stands, identify potential areas for improvement, and highlight where results are particularly strong. KPIs become much more useful when you can compare it with relevant results from other herds or a country average. For dairy advisors and consultants, this creates opportunities to incorporate relevant comparisons into their own applications.
- Simpler integrations: All APIs now follow the same consistent naming and structure. Clearer, consistent API naming means developers can learn one structure and apply that knowledge across different connections. This allows for faster integrations, making connections easier to understand and maintain.
- Improved monitoring: Better visibility into API usage and performance helps identify potential issues earlier, allowing for more control and better support on our side.
- Easier to get started: The platform upgrade also improves the experience for the people building and maintaining integrations. A dedicated technical portal provides a central place to find API documentation and download OpenAPI files, which can help developers configure integrations more efficiently. This allows for a much faster onboarding experience for new clients.
- Optimized data retrieval: Customers can request only newly uploaded or modified data, eliminating the need to repeatedly download the same records. This reduces processing time, enables faster data refreshes, and helps keep applications up to date more efficiently by retrieving only the data that has changed.
- Unified endpoint for historical and delta data retrieval: A single endpoint enables customers to retrieve both historical and modified data. With flexible parameters, users can efficiently query the specific dataset they need without switching between different endpoints.
- A new backoffice API: This allows customers to connect their own business systems or frontend applications directly with DDW for herd enrollment and monitoring.For example, a company could request a new herd connection from its existing application rather than entering the same farm information into our Herdnet frontend. Customers can also check enrolment progress through the API, making it easier to monitor the process without switching between applications.
Building a better-connected dairy industry
At DDW, we believe better access to data leads to better opportunities for the dairy industry. We continue to invest in our technology and push boundaries to make dairy data easier to access, integrate and use. If you found this article interesting and are curious to see how you can benefit from dairy data, you can explore DDW’s solutions on www.dairydarawarehouse.com or get in touch directly by sending an email on inquiries@dairydatawarehouse.com . Our goal remains the same: to make working with dairy data simpler, help our customers build better solutions and support more informed data driven decision-making across the industry.
