DI Squared, a leading data consultancy specializing in building reliable and scalable analytics ecosystems, today announced a strategic partnership with Astrato, a self-service cloud BI platform. Together, they aim to revolutionize how organizations access, analyze, and act on data across their enterprises.

By integrating Astrato’s cutting-edge capabilities into DI Squared’s approach to building tailored data foundations, this collaboration equips businesses with the tools they need to unlock real-time insights without the inefficiencies of data duplication or extensive IT support.  

“At DISQR, we’re focused on delivering fast, flexible analytics that align with the modern cloud data stack, and Astrato helps us do exactly that,” said Joel Kardell, Director of Analytics at DI Squared. “Its direct-query approach, paired with intuitive design and built-in governance, lets us deliver real-time insights without copying or moving data. From strategic dashboards to operational tools, we can enable business users and data teams alike to explore, act, and build with confidence.”
"Analytics should happen where the data lives,” said Martin Mahler, CEO of Astrato. “By pairing DI Squared’s deep expertise in cloud data foundations with Astrato’s live-query, no-code platform, we future-proof analytics for the next phase of AI in BI. We go beyond reporting with real-time writeback and no-code actions, so organizations can move from lagging dashboards to decision-ready data apps without the hidden cost of extracts or scripting.”

Astrato’s cloud-native platform is built for the modern data stack, querying data where it lives so teams get real-time answers without extracts or reload scripts. Warehouse agnostic and warehouse-native, its live-query engine connects directly to Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and other cloud platforms. A no-code builder pairs with GenAI-powered explanations, writeback, and fine-grained governance controls, letting analysts and business users build decision-ready data apps in minutes rather than weeks.  

This partnership also creates opportunities for DI Squared’s clients to leverage Astrato’s unique features, including native writeback, no-code actions for triggering BI workflows, baked-in AI capabilities, and a usage-based pricing model for cost control.  

Organizations navigating complex regulatory environments or hybrid cloud infrastructures are particularly well-positioned to benefit from this partnership. DI Squared’s expertise in engineering data platforms for the long-term, combined with Astrato’s innovative platform, offers a clear path for enterprises modernizing their analytics frameworks.

“Together with Astrato, we’re helping organizations bridge gaps in their data ecosystems with solutions that are flexible, future-proof, and easy to deploy,” Joel Kardell added. “This partnership exemplifies our commitment to creating smarter and more agile analytics environments for our clients.”

About DI Squared  

DI Squared is a trusted data consultancy empowering organizations to unlock the full potential of their data through scalable, reliable platforms. Its services include the development of data lakes, pipelines, dashboards, and augmented analytics for enterprises dedicated to enhancing operations and decision-making.  DI Squared’s mission is to empower all organizations to extract the full value of their data.

About Astrato  

Astrato is a modern, cloud-native analytics platform designed to transform how businesses interact with their data. Built to operate directly on cloud data warehouses, Astrato enables teams to self-serve insights, create visualized dashboards, and build action-oriented workflows in real time. With no data duplication and a focus on intuitive design, Astrato powers data analytics for the speed, scalability, and flexibility of today’s business world.  

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Astrato is a game changer. It integrated directly into our Data Cloud. Security and data privacy are critical for our work with behavioral health, addiction, and recovery support providers. Astrato allows us to maintain our high security in the Snowflake Data Cloud while opening more insights to more levels of care. Astrato is significantly faster with dashboards loading almost instantly.

Melissa Pluke
Co-Founder
Previously used Qlik Sense

Before, we had a separate analytics page, and nobody used it. Now, every customer at least checks the analytics, and for some, it’s the main thing they care about

Claudio Paolicelli
CTO
Self-hosted

Astrato acts as the shop window for everything happening in Snowflake, while all computation and governance remain in code within our data warehouse. That means anyone can access insights without relying on complex BI tools.

Chanade Hemming
Head of Data Products
Previoulsy used Tableau

Astrato is helping us win new customers as a result (of our Self-service embedded dashboard in Astrato), and we are on target to double the number of units (users) this year.

Beau Dobbs
Director of Business Intelligence & Operations
Previously used Tableau

Our customers are already thrilled by the improvement in user experience we have seen from switching to Astrato, which is enabling their non-technical users to self-serve for the insights they need to make informed decisions and be far more productive. This is helping us win and retain more customers.

Zachary Paz
Chief Operating Officer & EVP, Product
Evaluated Sigma, Thoughtspot & Qlik

Astrato offers a 50-75% cost saving over Qlik, with 25-50% faster development, seamless self-service analytics, and easy adoption which enables quick, customizable insights and actions.

Jeff Morrison
Chief of Analytics & Data Management
Previously used Qlik Sense & QlikView

Given Astrato is 100% cloud-native live-query, tightly integrated with the speed and scalability of Snowflake, we can now rapidly process a customer's data and build streamlined actionable analytics, in just hours/days compared to weeks/months previously. We have been able to automate almost everything, which just wasn't possible with PowerBI and our skill sets.

David Beto
Co-Founder & CEO
Previously used Power BI

Astrato is a game changer. It integrated directly into our Data Cloud. Security and data privacy are critical for our work with behavioral health, addiction, and recovery support providers. Astrato allows us to maintain our high security in the Snowflake Data Cloud while opening more insights to more levels of care. Astrato is significantly faster with dashboards loading almost instantly.

Melissa Pluke

Before, we had a separate analytics page, and nobody used it. Now, every customer at least checks the analytics, and for some, it’s the main thing they care about

Claudio Paolicelli

Astrato acts as the shop window for everything happening in Snowflake, while all computation and governance remain in code within our data warehouse. That means anyone can access insights without relying on complex BI tools.

Chanade Hemming

Astrato is helping us win new customers as a result (of our Self-service embedded dashboard in Astrato), and we are on target to double the number of units (users) this year.

Beau Dobbs

Our customers are already thrilled by the improvement in user experience we have seen from switching to Astrato, which is enabling their non-technical users to self-serve for the insights they need to make informed decisions and be far more productive. This is helping us win and retain more customers.

Zachary Paz

Astrato offers a 50-75% cost saving over Qlik, with 25-50% faster development, seamless self-service analytics, and easy adoption which enables quick, customizable insights and actions.

Jeff Morrison

Given Astrato is 100% cloud-native live-query, tightly integrated with the speed and scalability of Snowflake, we can now rapidly process a customer's data and build streamlined actionable analytics, in just hours/days compared to weeks/months previously. We have been able to automate almost everything, which just wasn't possible with PowerBI and our skill sets.

David Beto