LEESBURG, Va., July 23,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Gigasheet announced its latest
enterprise solution for organizations leveraging Databricks,
enabling business users to perform data exploration and analysis
with a scalable, spreadsheet-like interface. Trusted by over
100,000 users, Gigasheet's self-service platform now empowers IT
and data teams to centrally manage big data analysis, seamlessly
integrating with Databricks.
Businesses accumulate vast amounts of data in their Databricks
lakehouses, promising enhanced decision-making, AI model
development, and groundbreaking insights. However, business units
often lack technical skills, so the data remains inaccessible to
the teams that need it most.
Business users seek the ability to independently explore data,
pose ad-hoc questions, and uncover insights beyond pre-set reports.
Since few business users are SQL, Python, or database experts,
engineering is required to make data available. Thus, lines of
businesses find themselves marooned on an island of static and
outdated spreadsheets, constrained to dashboards without row-level
details, and stuck making endless data requests.
Simultaneously, technology leaders are challenged to provide
self-service analytics to business users, while trying to maintain
data security and avoiding overwhelming engineering resources. This
ongoing struggle creates a frustrating and inefficient cycle for
both business users and IT data teams.
Gigasheet for Databricks offers a practical, centrally managed
solution to data democratization challenges faced by modern
businesses. Gigasheet combines the power of big data with the
simplicity of a spreadsheet, empowering business users to explore
and analyze data independently. This solution supports efficient
collaboration and scales to meet the demands of large datasets, all
while ensuring data security and governance.
"Gigasheet has become an invaluable tool in our data migration
process. Its intuitive and seamless design allowed us to quickly
migrate end users to a true data platform and perform their
business function with data at scale," says Casey Niemuth, CEO of PODO, a consulting firm
that provides Databricks services.
Niemuth says IT and data teams easily manage Gigasheet without
adding additional layers of data access management. Gigasheet
supports both Databricks Personal Access Token authentication and
Delta Shares that are used in combination with Databricks Unity
Catalog governance controls to ensure that data access and security
remain intact.
Gigasheet for Databricks does not require setup or tuning of
backend Databricks infrastructure. Business users work seamlessly
in the Gigasheet environment, ensuring high performance and data
integrity while minimizing additional compute costs. Data from flat
files, or CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot, can be combined with
Databricks data within Gigasheet, supporting up to one billion rows
in a single sheet. Plus, data transformations and sheet preparation
can be automated using the API.
"There's a lot of buzz about democratizing data access but think
about how many people are experts at SQL or BI tools. Now think
about how many use spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are the common
language everyone speaks," says Jason
Hines, CEO and Co-founder of Gigasheet.
Hines says organizations can streamline data access and
management, reduce the dependency on data engineering resources,
and empower users to derive valuable insights from their data.
Gigasheet offers a cloud-based big data analytics
solution that integrates with existing data stores to
provide governed, self-service analytics to business users in a
spreadsheet-like interface.
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