Data intelligence software provider Alation on Monday released a new offering, dubbed Connected Sheets, designed to help enterprise users pull governed data from data sources into spreadsheets including Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel.
The company’s effort to offer an app designed to ensure data governance for spreadsheets stems from its understanding that a lot of businesses continue to use spreadsheets to draw business insights—even though 90% of these files have errors, said Raj Gossain, chief product officer at Alation.
A report on data and analytics from market research firm IDC estimates that about 78 million users still work with advanced spreadsheets.
