Mathematica becomes the ultimate nerve center for all your technical computing needs--connecting, controlling, and integrating external data sources, streamed information, and existing systems as if they were built-in functions.
Automated import and export
Mathematica makes the importing and exporting of hundreds of formats seamless, automatically converting data to or from the Mathematica-computable format.
Automatically select the type of data to import from a source using data component retrieval. You might pull in just the numbers from the table on a web page by pointing at its URL, or just the metadata from photos in a directory.
Just one automated step to import your data in hundreds of formats, from files, URLs, or live from databases--all immediately ready for Mathematica analysis. Mathematica's flexible symbolic representation natively supports textual, geometric, image, XML, sound, and many other modern structures, not just numerical matrices--making export as easy as import.
Web services can be used in Mathematica with the Web Services Package.
Mathematica has built-in connectivity to all major databases.
Mathematica is routinely the first major software application to run and be optimized for new systems.
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