Safe, flexible analytics at Omnipresent with Count
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Phillip van Blerk is the passionate Head of Data and Analytics at Omnipresent, a series B startup that offers compliance, payroll and benefits options to hire people anywhere on Earth. He recently sat with Count Chief Evangelist Mico Yuk to share their journey towards a strong data-led culture at Omnipresent, and how Count helps his team maintain data quality and enable over 130 self-service authors and data engineers to generate and share insights with ease.
Growing beyond spreadsheets
Omnipresent started in a familiar place - spreadsheets. Phillip explained, ‘We generate a ton of data and have massive data needs, but we’d mostly been using spreadsheets and source system data dumps. The obvious problem with spreadsheets is that people can edit anything or share data with people they shouldn’t. But more insidious is that they tend to lock insights up in a single file. Nothing gets shared and now nobody can build on top of my amazing insight.’ It worked great for individual analysts but not for a company looking to build a strong data culture.