Without Row Zero, data teams build hundreds of dashboards and business teams export to CSV and work in spreadsheets. This leads to untraceable data leakage, competing sources of truth, and frustrated teams.
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The modern spreadsheet for self-serve business intelligence
Row Zero is cloud spreadsheet that securely connects to your data warehouse and scales to a billion rows. Business users get secure self-serve access to the data they need in a familiar spreadsheet. No more dashboard overload. No more CSV exports. See how teams reduce BI tool licenses or replace BI tools entirely with Row Zero.
Connected spreadsheets replace the "Export to CSV" mess
Legacy Data Tools
Modern Cloud Stack
On-prem database
DATA
Cloud data warehouse
Legacy BI tools
VISUALIZATION
Cloud BI dashboards
Static spreadsheets and CSVs
OPERATION
Connected spreadsheet
DATA
Legacy
On-prem database
Modern
Cloud data warehouse
VISUALIZATION
Legacy
Legacy BI tools
Modern
Cloud BI dashboards
OPERATION
Legacy
Static spreadsheets and CSVs
Modern
Connected spreadsheet
With Row Zero, business teams get a powerful, connected spreadsheet that dynamically updates with new data. They can dig into raw data and self-serve without data support. Data teams get security, governance, and fewer ad hoc requests. Organizations can reduce or eliminate expensive, underutilized BI tool licenses.
Compare Row Zero vs Excel vs BI tools
Excel & Google Sheets
BI Tools
Usability
Universal. Anyone with spreadsheet skills.
Universal. Anyone with spreadsheet skills.
Rigid UIs. Most users export data to work in spreadsheets.
Scalability
1 billion+ rows (1000x Excel's limits)
Excel – 1,048,576 row limit. Google Sheets – 10M cell limit.
Unlimited — compute and processing is pushed down to the data warehouse.
Speed
Real-time interactivity. Fast with big data.
Real-time interactivity. Slow with big data.
Slow due to compute and processing delegated to the data warehouse.
Security & Governance
Modern cloud security. Governed data access and export controls.
Potential risks with files, data exports, emailing, sharing, etc.
Secure in dashboards, but users export CSVs to open in Excel.
Connectivity
Easily connects via OAuth and secure endpoints.
Difficult to securely connect to warehouse - credentials are tied to a computer + data leaves the cloud
Easily connects via OAuth and secure endpoints.
Cost
Business plans start at $20/seat
Included with productivity suite. Total cost of ownership rises with add-ins and support resources.
Double cost driver — expensive seat licenses plus data warehouse compute.
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