Ascend.io provides a platform that automates data and analytics engineering tasks. Its main features include data ingestion, transformation, delivery, and orchestration, which help data teams streamline their workflows. By reducing the amount of code needed and minimizing disruptions, the platform allows data engineers and analysts to work significantly faster. Ascend.io targets professionals in industries like technology, finance, healthcare, and retail, where managing complex data pipelines is essential. Unlike competitors, Ascend.io offers a unified solution that simplifies the data process, making it easier for teams to handle increasing data workloads. The company's goal is to enhance the efficiency of data teams, enabling them to focus on analysis rather than the complexities of data management.

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Industry-first automation controller for dbt models accelerates deployment and reduces engineering maintenance work by up to 80%Ascend.io, the leader in data pipeline automation, announced an integration that allows users to painlessly scale and run sophisticated dbt models in production with a single command. Ascend for dbt represents the industry’s first automation and optimization controller for dbt models, giving data and analytics engineers access to Ascend’s advanced orchestration capabilities with no added overhead.Ascend for dbt allows analytics engineers to continue to build with dbt Core while deploying their models to Ascend for intelligent execution. This solves a major challenge with dbt Core, the open-source version of dbt, which requires users to bring in a separate orchestration tool to execute their models. By automating the process of deploying dbt models with DataAware™ intelligence, Ascend helps data teams deliver data products faster and more efficiently.Marketing Technology News: Microsoft Unveils New Generative AI and Data Solutions Across the Shopper Journey, Offering Copilot Experiences Through Microsoft Cloud for Retail“With data teams under pressure to innovate faster and generate more value for their organizations, they need systems to automate traditionally manual processes that deploy and maintain data products at scale,” said Sean Knapp, founder and CEO, Ascend.io. “This new integration eliminates the pain of operationalizing dbt models, providing a smooth journey from design to production.”With Ascend for dbt, Ascend automatically tracks lineage across multiple dbt projects. By profiling the data against the generated dbt code, Ascend’s automation controller identifies every change in code or data that affects a pipeline

Ascend.Io Automates Dbt Pipeline Orchestration With New Integration

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The integration of Ascend's data management capabilities with Databricks' Lakehouse Platform caters to the diverse needs of today's data professionals while eliminating the cost of loading and syncing data.

Ascend Integrates Free Ingest Data Management Capabilities into the Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Ascend grows regional presence to better serve growing data management needsMENLO PARK, Calif., July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascend.io , the leader in data pipeline automation, today announced the appointment of Jeremy Poon as Head of APAC Sales, in addition to a number of sales and support hires for the Asia-Pacific region to better serve its global customer base, which includes Serko, Ports of Auckland, and Tonkin & Taylor. Poon comes to Ascend from Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) and is based in Melbourne, Australia. These new hires reflect Ascend's continued expansion of its global team, following the hiring of Robin Rostratter as Head of EMEA Sales earlier this year.Under Poon's leadership, Ascend will continue to expand its APAC presence, particularly in sales and customer success, to serve its customers in the region. Poon was previously Regional Vice President at Elastic, and before that he spent several years working on sales teams at Oracle, Cisco, CommVault, and VMware.Ascend has also announced the addition of several other team members in the region, including former employees of Elastic, MuleSoft, Cognizant and TIBCO Software Inc."The APAC region is seeing a spike in demand for solutions to contain ballooning cloud data costs and productivity challenges; we're projecting a 300% expansion in adoption in the APAC region over the next 12 months as a result," said Tom Weeks, Chief Operations Officer at Ascend. "With Jeremy on board, Ascend will be better positioned to help more companies benefit from our industry-leading data pipeline automation platform.""Ascend is at the forefront of the data revolution by simplifying processes and eliminating unnecessary complexity," Poon said, "I'm looking forward to leading an APAC team to further Ascend's mission of turning data into valuable products and insights, and enabling businesses to make the right moves confidently."Ascend has continued to innovate on its platform with the release of Ascend for Data Mesh , enabling businesses for the first time to share and link data across multiple data clouds from a single console. The company has also expanded its ecosystem presence, having deepened its partnerships with Snowflake to offer Free Ingest to joint customers and with new Databricks integrations to further enable transparency, collaboration, and productivity.Ascend recently received the prestigious 2023 Data Digital Innovation Award from Ventana Research for having "assembled a broad and deep portfolio of capabilities to address the requirements data engineers have in relation to managing and automating data pipelines." Additionally, Ascend was named a leader and outperformer in the 2023 GigaOm Radar Report for Data Pipelines .ABOUT ASCEND.IOAscend is the leader in Data Pipeline Automation for building the world's most intelligent data pipelines

Ascend.Io Continues Global Expansion With New Sales And Customer Success Hires In Apac Region

In addition, Ascend has released a new free, full-featured developer tier for Databricks so that Ascend customers can take advantage of the latest Databricks capabilities.

Ascend.io Extends Databricks Partnership to Provide Even Greater Support and Increased Value for Joint Customers

Ascend's Data Pipeline Automation Now Leverages Databricks Compute.Detects and propagates change across a company's data ecosystem.Eliminates wasteful spend on data reprocessing.MENLO PARK, Calif., June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascend.io, the leader in data pipeline automation, today announced that it has deepened the integration of its Data Pipeline Automation platform with Databricks , the data and AI company, to further enable transparency, collaboration, and productivity.With this integration, joint customers can now take full advantage of Databricks as a cloud data compute platform in Ascend's new second-generation remote data plane architecture, which allows users to leverage Ascend's DataAwareTM control plane within their Databricks lakehouse. In addition, Ascend has released a new free, full-featured developer tier for Databricks so that Ascend customers can take advantage of the latest Databricks capabilities.Ascend's Data Pipeline Automation Platform is a single platform with intelligence to detect and propagate change across a company's ecosystem—ensuring data accuracy and eliminating wasteful spend on data reprocessing. Pipelines powered by Ascend seamlessly ingest, transform, orchestrate, and share data for the business, across the entire end-to-end journey.Key enhancements powered by the Databricks partnership include:Full push-down support for the Databricks SQL compute platform —developers can more easily leverage the powerful compute available in their lakehouse and benefit from an automatic catalog of all the data assets they create. Now available to Ascend customers.—developers can more easily leverage the powerful compute available in their lakehouse and benefit from an automatic catalog of all the data assets they create. Now available to Ascend customers. High-performance data ingestion, and automatic cataloging of all datasets created in Ascend to the Databricks Unity Catalog —data consumers can now search the entire list of all silver and gold datasets in their lakehouse on the unity catalog to significantly improve the amount of data available to their projects

Ascend.Io Extends Databricks Partnership To Provide Even Greater Support And Increased Value For Joint Customers

In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, Frontlines speak with Sean Knapp, Founder & CEO of Ascend, a data engineering platform that’s raised $50 Million in funding, about why, in an era where every company is transforming into a software company, getting the right digital infrastructure in place is critical for optimizing productivity.

Sean Knapp, Founder & CEO of Ascend: $50 Million to Power the Future of Data Engineering

HIRES ROBIN ROSTRATTER TO HEAD SALES IN EUROPE AND ASIAAscend.io, the leader in Data Pipeline Automation for building the world’s most intelligent data pipelines, is expanding its global presence and has hired Robin Rostratter as Head of EMEA sales to better engage and support the company’s customer base across Europe and Asia Pacific markets. She will be based in Dublin, Ireland.Rostratter joins Ascend from Google, where she led various sales and vendor teams for Google Cloud to better serve Small and Medium Businesses across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to Google, she worked as an investment researcher for S&P Global Market Intelligence and GLG.“Robin’s background in growing a customer base in EMEA will be invaluable in accelerating the momentum we have been building in those regions,” said Tom Weeks, Chief Business Officer at Ascend. “We look forward to helping more customers worldwide benefit from the transformative impact of data pipeline automation with lower infrastructure costs and higher efficiency.”Marketing Technology News: Klaviyo Releases Q4 2022 Business Trend Recap“I’m excited to join the growing team at Ascend to expand its global presence,” said Rostratter. “I was drawn to Ascend’s strong and collaborative culture; it’s so evident how much the full team is inspired by the immense potential of Ascend’s platform.”Over the past year, Ascend has raised $31M in Series B funding, led by Tiger Global with participation from Shasta Ventures and existing investor Accel, and has doubled its headcount, focusing on customer success, sales and engineering. The company was recently featured in Built In SF’s 100 Best Places to Work

Ascend.Io, The Leader In Data Pipeline Automation, Expands Global Footprint

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