💠Concepts
Ascend is the Agentic Data Engineering platform. Effective use of AI starts with a solid engineering foundation. Ascend is a fully-featured data platform for ETL/ELT workloads and orchestration with familiar data engineering language:
- Data engineers work on an Ascend Project that is version-controlled in an Ascend Repository
- Data engineers develop Ascend Flows (data pipelines) for a Project in an Ascend Workspace
- Data engineers deploy that same Project to an Ascend Deployment for production use
- The development and deployment lifecycle in Ascend follows DataOps best practices
- Otto is your intelligent data engineering Agent in Ascend, helping you every step of the way
Next steps​
We recommend starting with the Instance page to understand the top-level resource and go from there. If you have access to an Ascend Instance, you can use Otto to help you navigate the documentation and explain concepts!