Case Study: Brazen achieves faster live reporting and data automation with Ascend.io

From Spreadsheets to Cloud Nirvana with Ascend.io and Sigma Computing

Brazen, a human resources company that provides virtual and in-person career fair solutions, was struggling to scale its data operations as it grew. Its team relied on spreadsheets, manual CSV extraction, and Python scripts, which created unreliable data, slow reporting, and a backlog of internal and customer requests. Brazen turned to Ascend.io, using its data automation platform along with BigQuery and Sigma Computing to modernize its analytics stack.

With Ascend.io, Brazen built automated, production-ready data pipelines that integrated raw data sources, transformed data in BigQuery, and fed clean datasets into Sigma Computing for live, spreadsheet-like analysis. The result was a major boost in efficiency and agility: custom report delivery time dropped from two weeks to one day, monthly reporting shifted to real-time visibility, and the small data team was able to avoid hiring additional competitive engineering talent while delivering faster, higher-quality insights.

Brazen

Eugene Medynskiy

Chief Product Officer