Supercharge your APIs

Develop single page and mobile applications with OData-supporting UI frameworks.

Get big data

Make live connections to business intelligence tools including PowerBI, Tableau and Excel.

Commercial support

Flat3 provides commercial support for Lodata. If you need help integrating Lodata into your application, want to build a Lodata-powered service or need new features then get in touch.

Powerful IDE support →

Lodata is strongly typed throughout and contains docblocks on every function.

IDEs including PhpStorm (opens new window) and Visual Studio Code (opens new window) can pick up this documentation and provide autocompletion to guide you through configuring your model.

← Discoverable APIs

OData RESTful APIs are easy to consume. The OData metadata, a machine-readable description of the data model of the APIs, enables the creation of powerful generic client proxies and tools.

The metadata is available as standard OpenAPI v3 (opens new window) which can be loaded into API collaboration platforms like Postman.

Simplify your workflow →

Microsoft Excel 2019 (opens new window) supports live updating OData Feeds (opens new window) using Power Query.

No more time-consuming downloading and importing of CSV and XLSX files for your reports, instead securely refresh your data in a single click.

← Discover insights

Easily connect to, model, and visualize your data in off-the-shelf business intelligence tools.

Microsoft Power BI (opens new window) supports OData as a first class data connector. Develop reports locally, and then publish them to the PowerBI Service (opens new window) where they'll refresh themselves unattended, directly from your Lodata service.