Ascend.io, the data engineering company, is providing a native integration between the Ascend and Looker platforms, closing the gap between enterprise data engineering and data analysis platforms.
"Analysts across the enterprise increasingly need to harness the business value of data found beyond data warehouses," said Shohei Narron, technology partner manager at Looker, which joined with Google Cloud in February of 2020. "Ascend brings an unprecedented capability to the Looker ecosystem with which BI teams and analysts can self-serve live data directly from data lakes and pipelines in their SQL statement. As a result, Looker visualizations, LookML models, and Looker-based APIs can harness data pipelines with no further ETL synchronization required."
Data teams are adopting the low-code Ascend platform to bring autonomous data pipelines and automated governance to their data lakes.
The Ascend platform standardizes and automates every aspect of pipeline design and operation, providing the fastest and easiest way to unify ETL and data processing across disparate data silos.
With this integration, Ascend enables SQL access to every stage of the data lifecycle.
"Ascend and Looker both recognize that businesses need the ability to extract value from data more quickly than they've been able to in the past," said Sean Knapp, founder and CEO of Ascend.io. "Unfortunately, many businesses are hamstrung by an outdated, inflexible data architecture and a lack of data engineers. In response, we've developed solutions that combine data automation and orchestration, allowing a growing number of data scientists and analysts to become 'citizen data engineers,' able to manage the end-to-end data lifecycle themselves. The integration also democratizes data access on the Looker platform and across the enterprise, allowing data teams to drive innovation and deliver insights with a faster 'time to why.'"
Commonly implemented on data lakes using Apache Spark, data pipelines are the leading standard for processing massive volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data on the cheapest forms of cloud compute and storage available.
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