Ascend Unified Data Engineering

Ascend Unified Data Engineering is a platform offered by Ascend.io that aims to enable the building of intelligent data pipelines. According to the vendor, this comprehensive solution caters to the needs of various professionals, including data engineers, data scientists, data analysts, IT professionals, and those in the financial services industry. The platform claims to streamline data operations, ensure data accuracy, and quantify the cost of data products.

Key Features

Build Plane: According to the vendor, users can program data pipelines end-to-end on a single pane of glass, eliminating tool-specific silos and potentially reducing software costs.

Control Plane: The control plane is said to detect and propagate changes across data pipelines in real-time using unique fingerprinting technology, aiming to ensure data integrity and synchronization without additional orchestration code.

Ops Plane: The ops plane, as claimed by the vendor, integrates intelligent data pipelines into businesses by building confidence, quantifying data processing costs, and creating transparency. It offers real-time operation tracking, log mining capabilities, and actionable data quality checks.

Data Clouds: Ascend Unified Data Engineering supports multiple data clouds, including Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and Spark. Users can choose the optimal data cloud for each pipeline, maintain a unified user experience, and consolidate access controls across different data clouds.