Today, we are thrilled to announce that Bobsled now supports universal sharing natively from Google BigQuery. Teams that build data products in BigQuery can now securely share tables and views directly to customers in Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon S3, Azure Storage and more through a single integration.

BigQuery is a powerful platform to build data products. But the customers and partners that use your data often work on different platforms. Some might use BigQuery  or Databricks while others prefer a data lake on Amazon S3 or Azure Storage. Bobsled lets you get those customers up and running on your data immediately without becoming an expert in their infrastructure.

With Bobsled on BigQuery, you can:

• Share data from BigQuery to another teams’ cloud storage, data warehouse (or even SFTP server)
• Rollout updates, manage schema changes and maintain pipelines seamlessly
• Manage permissions and monitor activity through a single unified control plane across your entire data network
• Unlock marketplaces and partnerships with the data and cloud platforms

Share data from BigQuery to another teams’ cloud storage, data warehouse or SFTP server

Every customer ingests data differently. Some prefer to consume data as files in their cloud storage. Others want to access ready-to-query tables in their data warehouse. Many still need files sent to a company-approved SFTP server. For teams that produce these data products in BigQuery, these sprawling requirements often mean building a tangled mess of custom pipelines that are not only costly to manage but also underwhelming for customers. 

Bobsled effectively eliminates that tradeoff. Once you’ve granted Bobsled permissions to your instance, you’re ready to share tables or views with customers directly in their platform – even if that’s outside BigQuery. Specify the platform, cloud and region where you want it to go, select the tables or views from BigQuery that you want to share, and set the loading and update pattern. Within minutes, your customer receives a ready-to-query view of your data product in their native platform.

Learn about supported destinations in Bobsled

Rollout updates, manage schema changes and maintain pipelines seamlessly 

Any data engineer or PM knows that while building pipelines hurts – it’s the management that kills you. Customers demand custom feeds, your data model evolves, destinations make changes – all resulting in fire drills, unhappy customers, and key engineering resources diverted from more strategic projects.

Bobsled was built to make sharing data anywhere in the cloud as easy as flipping a switch. Updates to the source data are mirrored seamlessly and efficiently to every customer or partner. Schema changes are elegantly rolled out across every customer without interrupting access. And the pipelines are fully managed, so engineers do not need to worry about tracking breaking changes in each destination. 

Learn more about Schema Evolution in Bobsled

Manage permissions and monitor activity across your entire data network

The last mile of data delivery is often a black box for major data and software businesses. The engineering teams that manage these deliveries often do not know a pipeline has broken until a customer comes calling. Product managers have no insight into which products are actually being used. And account teams do not know a customer will churn until the contract is canceled.

For data-driven companies like CoreLogic and ZoomInfo, Bobsled offers a single interface to manage the sprawling network of deliveries across hundreds (if not thousands) of customers. Engineers can receive real-time alerts when deliveries fail in their existing monitoring systems. Delivery teams can easily grant and revoke permissions to individuals. And product managers can get insight into the product customers are actually accessing. 

See Unified Monitoring in action

Unlock marketplaces and partnerships with the data and cloud platforms

Platforms like Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery have become an important factor in the buying process for data teams. Not only have they built data marketplaces for customers to discover and buy data, these platforms are often an important go-to-market partner for many data and software companies.  The problem for many companies is that getting to the starting line – the ability to share data into these platforms – requires substantial investment without proven return.

Bobsled effectively eliminates the calculus for many companies. Companies can quickly make their data products available in these platforms and unblock their alliances and partnerships teams to explore potential go-to-market opportunities through marketplaces and co-selling motions.

The impact for our customers is simple: a modern, efficient infrastructure that creates happier (and stickier) customers at a fraction of the cost.

Getting Started

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