Ascend offers data teams a streamlined and automated platform designed for the ingestion, transformation, and orchestration of their complete data engineering and analytics workloads, achieving speeds up to 10 times faster than previously possible. By facilitating gridlocked teams, Ascend enables them to overcome limitations and effectively build, manage, and optimize the ever-growing array of data workloads they face. With the support of DataAware intelligence, Ascend operates continuously behind the scenes to ensure data integrity while optimizing workloads, which can cut maintenance time by as much as 90%. Users can effortlessly create, refine, and execute data transformations through Ascend’s versatile flex-code interface, which supports SQL, Python, Java, and Scala interchangeably. Additionally, users can swiftly access critical insights, such as data lineage, profiles, job and user logs, system health, and essential workload metrics all in one place. Ascend also provides seamless connections to an expanding array of popular data sources through its Flex-Code data connectors, making integration smoother than ever. This comprehensive approach allows teams to leverage their data more effectively, fostering a culture of innovation and agility in their analytics processes.