Coalesce, a data transformation company, announced at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023, upcoming collaborative features that help data teams transform data faster at any scale.
These capabilities improve data accessibility and boost the performance of data initiatives for customers.
As a transformation solution built exclusively for the Snowflake Data Cloud, Coalesce revolutionizes the “T” in the ELT data management process by combining the flexibility of code and the speed of automation, in an intuitive visual interface.
This next-generation architecture provides an efficient user- and team experience for converting raw data in Snowflake into consumable business-ready data for use in business intelligence and data science use cases.
The platform upgrades include a feature called “Projects,” which organizes data transformation pipelines into distinct workspaces within Coalesce. Over the next few months, customers will be able to share transformed data and track their evolution across projects.
“Projects make the data transformation process more inclusive by allowing people to collaborate on interrelated efforts, with the context they need to be extremely productive,” said Armon Petrossian, Coalesce’s CEO and co-founder. “This leads to faster development and better observability across departments.”
Coalesce features, available over the next few weeks, include:
- Projects – An organizational feature that segments data pipelines into logical groups. Each project includes its own user permissions, git repository, development workspaces, and deployable environments.
- Deployment Dashboard – An operational dashboard that tracks job statuses and history across environments.
- Metadata API – A REST API that shares contextual details about jobs, data warehouse objects, and data lineage with other solutions like data catalogs.
In addition to these features, Coalesce will introduce major Projects-related enhancements over the next few months that:
- Improve Data Accessibility – Data experts across an organization can discover and use published data objects to build transformation pipelines on a unified platform.
- Accelerate Performance – By organizing data warehousing efforts into domain-specific pipelines, large organizations can manage complex use cases with teams executing on different timelines. Projects allow for more efficient pipeline development, improved UI performance, and faster code deployments while maintaining data lineage and observability down to the column level across workspaces.
- Enhance Data Integrity – Data quality and governance is delivered through secure cross-project linking, node/object versioning, and role-based access permissions. Metadata threaded through previously siloed data projects provides essential context for data lineage and usage, as well as identifying change impact.
These capabilities are crucial to implementing a data mesh framework that promotes interconnectivity and sharing curated data as inputs for other data projects within an organization.
Coalesce is at Snowflake Summit in Las Vegas through Thursday at Basecamp West booth #1300 or at its hospitality suite in the Venetian Hotel to learn more.
