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.
Read more about data handling and data sources in the Documentation Center.
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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