Introducing nuvo Data Pipelines 2.0: The Speed and Flexibility of Fully Automated File-Based Data Imports

 Michael Zittermann
Michael Zittermann
Co-Founder & CEO
Published:
January 15, 2025
Updated:
January 15, 2025
Introducing nuvo Data Pipelines 2.0

Data drives today’s global digital economy and is often stored in files. With data volumes and complexity growing across sectors, companies increasingly rely on large spreadsheets or XML and JSON files from partners, contractors, and suppliers to optimize operations, improve customer experiences, and fuel growth.

To support customers in reaching these goals, software providers must ensure consistent and accurate data from everyone involved. However, with each company managing data in different formats, structures, and quality levels, regularly importing data from files stored across various sources can quickly become a roadblock to scaling a SaaS business.

This is where nuvo Data Pipelines seeks to transform file-based data imports. Rather than spending time and resources on manually importing data from customers and third parties, nuvo Data Pipelines helps you fully automate recurring data imports across different sources and file formats. Here's why it’s a key resource for business growth.

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Importing data across files and sources often drains valuable time

As digital ecosystems grow more complex across the global economy, managing recurring data imports from various file formats and sources is one of the major challenges for software companies aiming for growth.

Imagine this scenario: A sustainability SaaS company signs a car manufacturer as a new customer. At first, developers build custom scripts to import data from the customer’s ERP system, or customer success (CS) managers manually submit the data received by email:

  • Raw material suppliers: Daily Excel files with carbon footprint, sourcing certifications, environmental impact data, etc.
  • Manufacturing partners: Weekly CSV files with energy consumption, waste recycling, sustainability compliance, etc.
  • Transport providers: Monthly JSON files with fuel consumption, vehicle type, distance traveled, etc.

A similar issue arises when customers provide the same data in different formats. Either way, CS managers often find themselves spending hours or days manually adjusting the data to fit their system’s requirements and asking for developer support for the import.

By fully automating data imports across different file formats and sources, the sustainability software company can give the car manufacturer a comprehensive view of its carbon emissions across the supply chain to support their climate action goals.

Data Impact Table
How file-based data imports impact SaaS companies
Wasted resources Building custom integrations for each new customer or troubleshooting new file formats and sources blocks significant resources from core product development.
Poor data quality Without automatic quality checks, human error leaves many issues unnoticed and unresolved across datasets, undermining product reliability.
Delayed time to value With messy customer data sent via email, CS managers often spend hours manually reformatting it to fit their system’s predefined import templates.
Limited scalability As the customer base grows, the provider's ability to deliver ready-to-use datasets without additional hiring becomes increasingly limited.

Shifting to fully automated file-based imports with nuvo Data Pipelines

Recurring file-based data imports can block valuable time and resources you could better invest in your core product. That’s why forward-thinking software companies leverage AI-enhanced automation to simplify regular data imports from various files formats and sources.

Enter nuvo Data Pipelines 2.0: Whatever the complexity of datasets or the number of customers, this AI-enhanced automation solution gives you the speed and flexibility to deliver clean, actionable data to customers, partners, or suppliers—at your convenience.

Our data pipeline solution offers embeddable UI elements to help you collaborate with customers directly in your system with minimal setup, or you can use the powerful nuvo API to customize the data pipeline environment according to your requirements.

With AI-enhanced automation, nuvo Data Pipelines allows your file-based import workflows run seamlessly in the background

nuvo Data Pipelines makes human intervention the exception rather than the rule throughout the data import process:

  • Ingest messy data from multiple file formats and sources: Set your data source and destination by choosing connectors that read from and write to various file storage systems. Whether you work with CSV, Excel, TSV, XML, or JSON files, our pre-configured connectors seamlessly integrate with (S)FTP, HTTP(S), AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, or email.
  • Quickly map, validate, and clean the imported data: Once set up, nuvo Data Pipelines automates the transformation of imported data. Our AI-powered mapping algorithm automatically matches imported columns to your target structure. Advanced Excel-like formulas help you clean and re-organize the imported data for accuracy and consistency.
  • Schedule your data import or trigger it by a specific event: You can let customers schedule file-based data imports to run at regular intervals, such as every Monday at 10 a.m. CET. Alternatively, they can trigger imports each time they send a file to their pipeline via email or HTTP(S).
  • Monitor and fix data pipeline executions: View all your pipeline executions in one place and quickly resolve any failed runs. Make one-off fixes or modify the pipeline's settings to apply changes to future executions.

Whether scheduled or event-triggered, nuvo Data Pipelines makes collaborating with customers seamless for creating, executing, and managing file-based data import workflows. This unique approach ensures you always deliver clean, ready-to-use data for everyone involved.

nuvo’s embeddable UI elements simplify collaboration with customers to create, execute, and manage file-based data import workflows

By freeing up time and resources, nuvo Data Pipelines allows you to focus on scaling robust data pipelines instead of getting bogged down by repetitive manual tasks. If you’re ready to learn more about how it can support your business, speak with our team today.

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