What is the main purpose of workbench?

JonavilCello

My company has been using domo for years, yet I don't know what are workbench for because we are not using it. 

What is the main purpose of workbench anyway?

GrantSmith

It allows all of your database connections and data pulling to be done on your local network rather than having Domo do it directly via the web UI. Some companies like this so there's only one point of ingestion into Domo instead of opening access to all of their local databases from a security standpoint.

 

Here's some additional documentation (it's old and talking about version 3 but the concepts are the same)

https://dojo.domo.com/t5/Workbench/What-is-DOMO-Workbench/m-p/1391

https://dojo.domo.com/t5/Domo-Dojo-8482-Documentation/Using-Workbench-to-upload-data/ta-p/1053

 

EDIT: Here's also a link to the Workbench 5 Knowledge Base documentation as well: https://knowledge.domo.com/Connect/Connecting_to_Data_Using_Workbench_5/13Workbench_5_FAQs 

JonavilCello

@GrantSmith now that lighten thingsup for me. Thank you!