See How Minitab Seamlessly Connects to OSI PI, Snowflake, and More Enterprise Data Sources

Businesses today are collecting more data than ever before. From manufacturing plants and research labs to shipping, logistics, healthcare, and retail companies, vast amounts of data are being gathered and stored in enterprise databases. Whether it’s operational performance metrics, supply chain data, patient wait times, or inventory levels, companies rely on these databases to manage critical information. These databases range from basic SQL databases to powerful data historians, data warehouses, and data lakes.

However, data storage alone doesn’t create business value. The real challenge—and the real value—lies in accessing, analyzing, and using the data to extract insights that solve problems and drive operational improvements. Some industry estimates suggest that only about 1% of all collected data is ever actually used, meaning 99% of it just sits there.

Minitab provides industry-leading analytics tools that help businesses turn their data into meaningful decisions. What many don’t realize is that Minitab offers built-in connectors that allow users to seamlessly pull data directly from their existing data infrastructure into our applications. This eliminates inefficient and risky manual data handling, enabling smarter, faster analysis.

The Challenge: Data That’s Difficult to Access

For many organizations, data is stored in silos. Industrial operations, quality, continuous improvement, analytics, and management teams often rely on different data storage solutions, making it difficult to integrate information into a single analytics platform. This challenge exists across industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and supply chain management.

Traditionally, moving data from storage to analytics tools requires manual exports, file conversions, and time-consuming preparation. This process wastes valuable time on repetitive data handling tasks while increasing the risk of human error and security vulnerabilities.

With Minitab’s connectors, powered by Minitab Connect, businesses can eliminate these pain points. Data flows directly from its source into Minitab’s applications—including Minitab Statistical Software (MSS)—for a seamless data transfer experience and rapid analysis.

Minitab’s Connectors: Seamless and Secure Data Integration

Minitab’s connectors provide direct, secure, and efficient access to your company’s databases. We support key integrations, including:

• OSI PI: A leading data historian used in manufacturing, process, energy, and utility companies to store and manage time-series data
• REST API: A flexible way to connect to virtually any system with an API that is supported by systems across industries, allowing seamless integration with third-party applications and custom data-sources
• Snowflake: A powerful cloud data platform designed for scalable enterprise-level analytics, enabling businesses to analyze massive datasets with ease
• MongoDB: A NoSQL database for handling unstructured and semi-structured data – often used for IoT applications, customer analytics, and large-scale document support
• MySQL: One of the most widely used relational databases, supporting structured data storage for web applications, enterprise software, and transactional systems
• PostgreSQL: A powerful open-source relational database known for its advanced query capabilities, widely used in industries that require complex data processing
• SAP Data Management (SAP DM): An enterprise data management platform that enables organizations to integrate, govern, and analyze their operational and transactional data
• AWS S3: A scalable cloud storage service that allows businesses to store and retrieve large amounts of structured and unstructured data for analytics and machine learning

By leveraging these connectors, organizations can:

1. Eliminate manual data handling – Reducing the time spent transferring, formatting, and preparing data.
2. Improve security and control – Keeping IT teams happy by ensuring that data remains within a controlled system instead of being manually exported and manipulated in spreadsheets.
3. Enable real-time and historical analysis – Providing operations, logistics, supply chain, and healthcare teams with immediate access to relevant data for decision making.

Check out our complimentary resource, 3 Common Problems that Minitab Connect Can Solve, to learn more.

Is Your Inspection Data Trapped on Your Machines? We’ve Got a Connector for That Too

Many organizations struggle to extract data from equipment into a database. With Minitab’s Prolink solutions, you can automatically collect inspection data and send it directly to Minitab Statistical Software or a database for further analysis.

As the market leader, Prolink has built the largest library of drivers to collect data in real-time from over 320 makes, models, and versions of automatic inspection equipment, including coordinate-measuring machines (CMMs), gages, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs).

Real-World Benefits: How Businesses Can Use Minitab’s Connectors

Companies across industries can unlock extraordinary efficiencies with Minitab’s connectors embedded in the Minitab Connect product:

• Supply Chain & Logistics: A global logistics company connects Minitab Statistical Software to analyze shipment delays, warehouse efficiency, and carrier performance trends – helping optimize delivery routes and reduce costs
• Healthcare: Researchers pull patient data from MongoDB into Minitab to analyze patient wait-times and improve time-to-care in hospital settings
• Retail: A national retailer connects its sales database to Minitab using MySQL and PostgreSQL to track customer demand trends and optimize inventory management across multiple locations
• Manufacturing: A plant’s quality team pulls production data from OSI PI into Minitab to detect process variations and ensure product consistency
• Energy & Utilities: A power company pulls data from OSI PI to analyze operational efficiency and predict energy demand trends

By eliminating manual data handling and providing secure, real-time access, Minitab’s connectors have the capability to improve efficiency for operational users and enhance security and control for IT teams – a critical benefit in industries that handle sensitive data.

Unlock the Full Potential of Your Data

If your organization stores valuable data in databases, historians, data lakes, data warehouses, or cloud platforms, now is the time to integrate and analyze it seamlessly.

With Minitab’s connectors, powered by Minitab Connect, you can

1. Reduce manual data processing time and free up resources
2. Ensure data security and governance by keeping data access controlled and auditable
3. Empower teams with faster more reliable insights – to improve decision-making

Many companies can benefit from Minitab’s connectors by building data highways between their storage systems the Minitab products. If you’re not using them yet, get in touch with us to explore how they can streamline your workflow.

Talk to Minitab to learn more.