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Partner Overview
Govern every pipeline change without slowing your data team.
We partner with Coalesce to give data teams a single, metadata-driven platform for transformation, cataloguing, and quality. Every change documented, governed, and trusted from day one.
The headline benefit
Ship pipeline changes 5x faster with full lineage and built-in governance.
Coalesce captures every transformation as metadata, with full lineage, automated documentation, and built-in quality checks. Data teams see the impact of any change before they make it, govern who can do what, and prove how every number was built.
DID YOU KNOW
60–80%
reduction in audit response time for governed pipelines
Why Coalesce with Catalyst BI
One platform, four outcomes your data team will feel from week one.
01
Faster, governed pipeline change
Capture every transformation with full lineage and automated documentation. Ship changes weekly without losing trust in downstream data.
02
Built-in data quality and control
Test data quality, enforce standards, and roll back safely. No more silent breakages reaching dashboards, reports, or AI models.
03
One platform, not three tools
Replace stitched-together transformation, cataloguing, and quality tools with one metadata-driven environment. Lower cost, simpler stack.
04
Engineered for Snowflake
Designed to sit on top of Snowflake as the governance and transformation layer. Works alongside Fivetran, DataOps.live and the rest of your stack.
How it fits together
Coalesce sits on top of Snowflake as your governance layer.
Fivetran moves your data in. Snowflake stores and computes. Coalesce transforms, catalogues, and controls. DataOps.live automates CI/CD. The result is a complete, governed data pipeline from source to insight.
Coalesce Impact
5X
Faster pipeline change cycles, with full lineage on every transformation and zero loss of audit trail.
Real-world results
Built for the industries with the least room for error.
Coalesce lands hardest where audit trail, complexity, and pace of change collide. Pick your sector.
Financial Services · Regulatory Reporting
Defensible numbers, on demand.
The challenge
Risk and finance teams struggle to prove how every number in a regulatory report was built. A single source change can trigger weeks of restatement work.
The solution
Catalyst BI uses Coalesce to capture every transformation as metadata, with full lineage from source system to regulatory report. Built-in documentation and version control give risk teams a defensible audit trail without manual effort.
The results
60-80%
reduction in time spent answering auditor questions
100%
lineage for every metric in BCBS 239 reports
Fewer
restated numbers with impact analysis pre-change
Faster
onboarding of new reporting requirements
Manufacturing · Operational Reporting
Pipelines that change as the factory does.
The challenge
Production data sits across ERP, MES and a long tail of legacy systems. Every change to OEE reporting or predictive maintenance pipelines risks breaking what is already working.
The solution
Catalyst BI applies Coalesce to consolidate operational data with governed transformations and version-controlled pipelines. Teams evolve dashboards as the operation changes, without losing visibility of how shop floor metrics are calculated.
The results
40%
faster deployment of new operational dashboards
25%
less time reconciling figures across systems
1X
consistent OEE definition across every plant
Repeatable
Lorem Ipsumarollouts to new sites with versioned pipelines
Retail · Margin and Inventory
Margin you can trust by morning.
The challenge
Retailers struggle to track margin by product, channel and store in near real time. Pipelines built for one report do not scale to the next, and changes ripple through dashboards unpredictably.
The solution
Catalyst BI uses Coalesce to build governed, reusable transformation models for sales, inventory and finance data. Lineage and impact analysis give merchandising and finance teams confidence in every metric.
The results
Daily
margin reporting across product and channel
30%
faster delivery of new analytics models
1X
governed definition for sales, returns, margin
Less
dependency on manual data engineering
Frequently asked questions
The questions buyers ask before they commit.
Real questions from sales calls and discovery sessions. If yours isn't here, get in touch.
Overview What is Coalesce, and what does it do?
Coalesce is a metadata-driven data transformation platform built for Snowflake. It combines transformation, cataloguing, and quality testing into one environment, with full lineage on every change. Data teams use it to build, document, and govern data pipelines without stitching together three or four separate tools.
Comparison How is Coalesce different from dbt?
Both transform data on Snowflake, but Coalesce captures everything as metadata rather than only as code. That means automatic lineage, built-in cataloguing, and visual impact analysis without extra plug-ins. Teams that need governed change management and audit trails for regulated reporting tend to prefer Coalesce. dbt remains stronger for code-first teams comfortable building their own governance layer.
Architecture Where does Coalesce fit alongside Snowflake?
Coalesce sits on top of Snowflake as the transformation and governance layer. Snowflake stores and computes the data. Coalesce builds the models, tracks lineage, runs quality tests, and controls who can change what. Together they give you a Snowflake estate that is fast, governed, and easy to evolve.
Stack How does Coalesce work with DataOps.live and Fivetran?
Coalesce is additive, not a replacement. Fivetran handles data ingestion into Snowflake. Coalesce handles transformation, cataloguing, and quality. DataOps.live automates CI/CD across the whole pipeline. The four tools cover ingestion, storage, transformation, and orchestration, with no overlap.
Industry Fit What industries does Coalesce work best for?
Coalesce delivers the most value where audit trail, regulatory pressure, or pipeline complexity are highest. Financial services teams use it for governed regulatory reporting. Manufacturers use it to consolidate ERP, MES, and IoT data without breaking dashboards. Retailers use it for trusted margin and inventory reporting across channels.
Time to Value How quickly can a data team be productive with Coalesce?
Most data teams ship their first production pipeline in Coalesce within two to four weeks. The visual development environment shortens the learning curve for engineers familiar with SQL and modelling concepts. Catalyst BI runs a structured enablement programme during initial deployment to accelerate confidence and adoption.
Migration Do I need to replace my existing transformation tools to use Coalesce?
No. Most teams migrate gradually. New pipelines start in Coalesce, while existing pipelines stay where they are until renewal or refactor. Catalyst BI typically prioritises migration where governance, audit, or change-management pain is highest, usually regulatory reporting or operational dashboards.
Engagement What does a typical Coalesce engagement with Catalyst BI look like?
We start with a Data Strategy Workshop to map your current pipeline pain. From there, a typical engagement runs in three phases: a governed pilot on one high-value pipeline (four to six weeks), a phased rollout to priority domains (three to six months), and ongoing optimisation through our managed services team.
NEXT STEP
Ready to bring control and speed to every pipeline change?
Catalyst BI and Coalesce help you ship data changes faster, govern every transformation, and earn trust in your numbers.
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