Data Engineering on Databricks

Agentic Data Engineering for Databricks

Build and deploy faster with integrated AI agents that understand your Databricks environment. Context-aware agents use your metadata, your pipeline context, and your rules so you can deliver data faster.

Faster ingest. Faster impact

Accelerate delivery into Databricks with automated ingestion. Ascend continuously optimizes ingestion for speed, resource efficiency, and schema integrity — so you ingest more data, with less effort & cost.

Maximized warehouse performance

Automatically align with Databricks best practices. From workload-aware scheduling to Smart Table-based optimization, your pipelines batch, scale, and execute efficiently.

Delta Lake, natively supported

Ascend integrates directly with Delta tables — making it easy to build fast, reliable pipelines with incremental processing and full lineage.

Governance aligned with Unity Catalog

Ascend respects Unity Catalog roles, tags, and access controls — while adding runtime observability, versioning, and end-to-end pipeline lineage to support governance at scale.

Operationalize AI/ML workloads

Trigger and monitor data prep, feature engineering, or batch inference pipelines across the Databricks AI/ML Runtime — all without manual orchestration or external schedulers.

Make the Most of Your
Databricks Investment

Ascend layers seamlessly onto your existing stack to help your team build faster, automate more, and deliver trusted data products at scale.

Build Faster

Pipeline development, without the drag

Use code when you want it, clicks when you don’t. Ascend combines integrated AI agents and native GitOps for seamless team collaboration.

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Cut wasteful spend

Automate Workflows Easily

Ascend automates orchestration using rich metadata and event-driven triggers—so pipelines run only when needed, and custom logic is easy to build in.

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Deliver trusted data

Observe with Confidence

Monitor pipeline performance, trace lineage end-to-end, and debug faster with real-time, metadata-powered insights.

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Observe & Govern

Optimize with Precision

Run faster, spend less—Ascend uses metadata and fingerprinting to cut unnecessary compute without sacrificing performance.

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Pipeline development, without the drag

Ascend streamlines pipeline development with a unified platform to ingest, transform, and orchestrate data — eliminating tool sprawl and speeding up delivery. Teams report building pipelines up to 10x faster and reducing development effort by 75%.

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Effortlessly optimize pipelines

Ascend intelligently optimizes workloads. With Smart Tables that reprocess only changed data, customers reduce operational overhead by up to 90%.

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Trustworthy data, by design

With built-in schema validation, data integrity checks, and full lineage, your team can catch issues early and deliver data with confidence.

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Full visibility, no blind spots

Ascend gives your team real-time visibility into every pipeline run — with built-in monitoring, lineage, and historical change tracking. From spotting bottlenecks to resolving issues before they impact the business, teams get the insights they need to move fast and stay in control.

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How you can Ascend your
Databricks investment

Build Pipelines 10x Faster

Deploy, orchestrate, and maintain data pipelines with AI agents. Spend time building, not debugging.

AI Pipeline BuilderDescribe what you need in natural language — agents build the pipeline

Automated TestingAuto-generated data quality checks and regression tests

Self-Healing WorkflowsAgents detect failures and auto-remediate

Code-First ApproachFull Git integration with version control and CI/CD built in

Multi-Cloud OrchestrationSeamlessly move data across Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and more

Intelligent SchedulingDependency-aware orchestration that optimizes execution

Multiply Team Productivity

Deliver data 10x faster at 83% of the cost of traditional tools. Give your team the leverage to focus on strategic initiatives, not pipeline maintenance.

Reduce Tool Sprawl Consolidate your data stack and eliminate redundant tooling costs

Performance Insights Real-time dashboards track pipeline health, cost, and team velocity

Team Scalability Onboard new team members in hours, not weeks, with agentic assistance

Enterprise Governance
Built-in compliance, audit trails, and role-based access controls

Agentic Adoption Drive safe and effective AI adoption for your team

Intelligent Optimization Ascend's DataAware automation intelligently eliminates unnecessary reprocessing

Governance Meets Autonomy

Control agentic behavior with intelligent guardrails while empowering teams to move fast. Define the rules, and let AI enforce them at scale.

Safety BoundariesDefine guardrails that agents respect — no unauthorized changes

Decision AuditingFull visibility into every agent decision

Data StandardsEnforce naming conventions, schemas, and quality rules automatically

Policy as CodeVersion-controlled governance policies that evolve with your org

DataOps Best Practices
Deploy data pipelines with CI/CD and GitOps workflows

Access Control
Fine-grained RBAC with environment-level isolation

From Questions to Insights, Instantly

Generate insights, visualizations, and reports using natural language. No code required — just ask and get answers from your data in seconds.

Natural Language QueriesConsolidate your data stack and eliminate redundant tooling costs

Auto-Generated visualizationsReal-time dashboards track pipeline health, cost, and team velocity

Instant Exports
One-click export or links to share directly with stakeholders

Smart SuggestionsAI recommends follow-up queries and deeper analyses automatically

Agentic AnalyticsGo beyond visualizations to deliver actionable insights and recommendations

Proactive AlertsGet notified of anomalies and trends before they become problems

Data Engineering

Build Pipelines 10x Faster

Deploy, orchestrate, and maintain data pipelines with AI agents. Spend time building, not debugging.

AI Pipeline BuilderDescribe what you need in natural language — agents build the pipeline

Automated TestingAuto-generated data quality checks and regression tests

Self-Healing WorkflowsAgents detect failures and auto-remediate

Code-First ApproachFull Git integration with version control and CI/CD built in

Multi-Cloud OrchestrationSeamlessly move data across Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and more

Intelligent SchedulingDependency-aware orchestration that optimizes execution

Data Leader

Multiply Team Productivity

Deliver data 10x faster at 83% of the cost of traditional tools. Give your team the leverage to focus on strategic initiatives, not pipeline maintenance.

Reduce Tool Sprawl Consolidate your data stack and eliminate redundant tooling costs

Performance Insights Real-time dashboards track pipeline health, cost, and team velocity

Team Scalability Onboard new team members in hours, not weeks, with agentic assistance

Enterprise Governance
Built-in compliance, audit trails, and role-based access controls

Agentic Adoption Drive safe and effective AI adoption for your team

Intelligent Optimization Ascend's DataAware automation intelligently eliminates unnecessary reprocessing

Data Architects

Governance Meets Autonomy

Control agentic behavior with intelligent guardrails while empowering teams to move fast. Define the rules, and let AI enforce them at scale.

Safety BoundariesDefine guardrails that agents respect — no unauthorized changes

Decision AuditingFull visibility into every agent decision

Data StandardsEnforce naming conventions, schemas, and quality rules automatically

Policy as CodeVersion-controlled governance policies that evolve with your org

DataOps Best Practices
Deploy data pipelines with CI/CD and GitOps workflows

Access Control
Fine-grained RBAC with environment-level isolation

Data Analysts

From Questions to Insights, Instantly

Generate insights, visualizations, and reports using natural language. No code required — just ask and get answers from your data in seconds.

Natural Language QueriesConsolidate your data stack and eliminate redundant tooling costs

Auto-Generated visualizationsReal-time dashboards track pipeline health, cost, and team velocity

Instant Exports
One-click export or links to share directly with stakeholders

Smart SuggestionsAI recommends follow-up queries and deeper analyses automatically

Agentic AnalyticsGo beyond visualizations to deliver actionable insights and recommendations

Proactive AlertsGet notified of anomalies and trends before they become problems

Intelligence that maximizes your Databricks investment

Ascend’s Intelligence Core is purpose-built to help teams move faster and operate smarter on Databricks. By combining fine-grained metadata, automation, and AI, Ascend optimizes pipeline performance, reduces warehouse costs, and simplifies orchestration—giving teams full control and visibility across their Databricks environments.

Unified Metadata Collection

Ascend tracks data, code, and user actions in a unified metadata layer — powering automation, observability, and auditability through the entire data lifecycle.

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DataAware™ Automation Engine

Ascend’s automation engine uses rich metadata to orchestrate pipelines — managing dependencies, triggering tasks, and supporting custom event-driven workflows.

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Integrated AI Agents

Let AI do the tedious parts of data engineering — Ascend’s context-aware agents suggest code, explain logic, generate docs, and even automate steps on your behalf.

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