Table Discovery in Excel

New Feature Alert! – Enhanced Data Discovery

For Release 5/3/2024:

The Exponam.Connect Excel Add-in for Databricks now includes easy to use data discovery features for non-technical users.  This is in addition to the no-code, fast, and efficient data importing features which have been the products main feature since Databricks’ release of Delta Sharing.

Data table names are often not intuitive or meant for end-user ease-of-use.  Now, instead of seeing just table names and needing to look at the column data to see if it is the desired table, users in Excel see the table description and column information immediately.

“The new table discovery feature in Exponam.Connect further simplifies the business user’s journey in accessing enterprise data,” stated Roger Dunn, Exponam CTO.  “Non-technical users comprise the majority of data users within organizations.  We will continue to enhance features which make accessing and using data easy for non-technical business stakeholders.  Exponam.Connect is the first truly self-service data tool on the market for pulling data out of enterprise data lakes.”

Exponam Launches Delta Sharing Excel Add-in

For Immediate Release

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Date: November 28, 2022
Location: AWS re:Invent 2022, Las Vegas

Exponam announced today the limited release of the Exponam.ConnectTM Excel Add-in, an easy-to-use Excel Application which brings Delta data from Databricks (and Spark) directly to end users in Excel.

Exponam.Connect empowers business users with frictionless, no-code access to data for which they are permissioned via Delta Sharing Server(s).  Users easily add data sets from company data repositories, from partner companies, and from data sellers and marketplaces.

Delta data is instantly previewable with easy controls to:

  • Filter and select what data to import into Excel
  • Save filters for easy repeated actions (e.g. pulling daily, weekly or monthly sales data)
  • Write data straight to csv or .BIG files

Roger Dunn, Co-founder and CTO of Exponam, said: “Since 2017, Exponam’s mission has been to make modern data sets accessible to everyone.  Reporting and analytics tools are great, but business users want to work with data in a spreadsheet.  By partnering with Databricks, our Exponam.Connect product brings data from the world’s leading Lakehouse platform directly to non-technical business users in Excel.”

Herman Weintraub, Co-founder and CEO of Exponam, said: “For the world’s 50 million developers, cloud data and distributed compute platforms like Spark have made data more accessible and better governed than ever.  But for the world’s billions of Excel users, access to data has never been more of a challenge.  Exponam.Connect, opens cloud data to the world.  And with our .BIGTM format, we make modern data easy to securely share, distribute, store and access.”

About Exponam

Exponam evangelizes “Empowerment through Data.”  We create better ways to share, move, store, and explore data.  Organizations can use Exponam.Connect and .BIG file technologies with their existing systems to make large and sensitive data easier to access, faster to share, and cheaper to store.