Why Companies Choose Row Zero

Row Zero is used at thousands of companies globally. See why the world’s largest companies choose Row Zero.

  • 1000x more powerful
  • Enterprise-grade security
  • Connected to your data
  • Familiar spreadsheet experience
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Without Row Zero:

At most organizations, 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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With Row Zero:

Business teams get a powerful, connected spreadsheet that dynamically updates with new data. Data teams get security, data governance, and fewer ad hoc requests.

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Row Zero allows us to quickly analyze huge datasets using simple and familiar spreadsheet functions.

Rob Harlow
COO @ Sopro

A perfect mix of phenomenal performance, great connectivity, and a price point that was a no brainer

Gentry Davies
CEO @ Crew

Lightning fast. Allowed total flexibility for financial modeling. No more tricks to make the model fit Excel.

Ian Chapman
Reservoir Engineer @ Split Rock Resources

Row Zero is the fastest way for our team to analyze and collaborate on giant telemetry datasets.

Mike Lin
Sr. Product Development Engineer @ Tasso

Row Zero has become my default SQL viewer and replaced Postico.

Sami Boghos
VP of Operations @ Retirable

Row Zero is an impressive feat of engineering, making big data feel small in a familiar spreadsheet interface.

Wes McKinney
Creator of Pandas and Apache Arrow

Why data teams love us:

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Why business teams love us:

Compare Row Zero vs Excel vs BI tools

Comparison of Excel/Google Sheets, BI Tools, and Row Zero
Excel & Google Sheets
BI Tools
Row Zero
UsabilityCan be used and understood by everyone.Rigid UIs. Users export data to CSVs to open in Excel and Google Sheets.Can be used and understood by everyone. Same formulas and features as Excel and Sheets.
Scalability
  • Excel – 1,048,576 row limit.
  • Google Sheets – 10M cell limit.
Unlimited — compute and processing is pushed down to the data warehouse.1 billion+ rows available (1000x Excel's limits).
SpeedReal-time interactivitySlow due to compute and processing delegated to the data warehouse.Real-time interactivity
ConnectivityDifficult to securely connect to data warehouse - credentials are tied to a computer + data leaves the cloudEasily connects via OAuth and secure endpoints.Easily connects via OAuth and secure endpoints.
Security & GovernanceSecurity risks with files, data exports, emailing, sharing, version control, etc.Secure in dashboards, but users export CSVs to open in Excel.Data securely trapped in the cloud. Sharing is tracked.
CostIncluded with productivity suite. Total cost of ownership rises with add-ins and supporting tools.Double cost driver — expensive seat licenses plus data warehouse compute.Corporate plans start at $20/seat.

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