Obsidian Security

**Data Unification and Advanced Analytics with Delta Sharing and Obsidian**
**The Challenge:** Your organization's data is trapped and siloed in a multitude of SaaS applications. Generating a holistic view of customer behavior or operational efficiency requires time-consuming, manual data consolidation. You need a way to unify and analyze data across all your vendors without building complex data pipelines.

**The Solution: Delta Sharing and Obsidian**
Our integration combines Delta Sharing with the analytical power of Obsidian to create a secure, streamlined, and scalable path to data unification and advanced analytics.
**How It Works:**

1. **Vendor-Correlated Data Streams:** We use Delta Sharing to provide live, standardized, and pre-correlated data from all our SaaS offerings. This means the heavy lifting of data normalization is done on our end, giving you a unified view from day one.
2. **Live Ingestion**: These streams are ingested directly into your secure Databricks environment as live Delta tables. This eliminates the need for complex ETL/ELT pipelines and manual transfers.
3. **Secure Access with Unity Catalog:** The data is secured by Databricks Unity Catalog, so you maintain granular control over who can access what.
4. **Advanced Analytics with Obsidian:** Once the data is in your Databricks Lakehouse, Obsidian acts as your central hub for analysis. Your data analysts and business users can:

- 5. **Model Data**: Build sophisticated models across your SaaS data streams.
- 6. **Build Custom Dashboards**: Design interactive dashboards for a 360-degree view of your operations.
- 7. **Run Ad-Hoc Queries**: Empower your teams to ask complex questions of your data without waiting for vendor-built reports

**Benefits of the Integration**
This integration enables a powerful self-service analytics capability.

- **Accelerated Time to Insight**: Get live, correlated data streams immediately, eliminating weeks of data pipeline construction.
- **Reduced Operational Burden**: Shift the responsibility of data normalization back to the vendor. Your data teams can focus on finding insights.
- **Holistic Business View**: Break down data silos and gain a unified perspective on your business.
- **Empowered Data Teams**: Give your technical teams the tools and data they need to explore, model, and analyze independently.

This integration empowers you to move beyond basic reporting and transform your data from a static asset into a dynamic driver of business strategy.