Data connections
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 7:23 am
Thank you for the new beta release extending access to January. The accompanying email mentioned time series data support and I would be very keen to see the ability to link Ventity (and Vensim, come to that) to an online database such as MySQL. Currently, we have to get a client's IT department involved to export data from the database to a CSV file that we can then use for data input to a model, but we could have 'live' access to the database table directly, if it were possible to set the model up to connect to that. I have a particular future project in mind where we want to model the cost implications for different outputs from a variable pricing policy and the client is currently collecting data in their Property Management System, which uses a MySQL database.