Acante is revolutionizing data access governance with a co-pilot approach that automates and simplifies the most pressing access governance challenges. We deliver the frictionless governance experience that data platform and governance teams yearn for, including turnkey deployment, automated insights, and accelerated workflows. By leveraging customer feedback to shape every aspect of our product, we deliver a customer experience that delivers orders of magnitude of improvement in operational efficiency and savings. In a fraction of the time compared to legacy solutions, our customers get quick time to value measured in days, not weeks or months, and significantly reduced toil. Our customers love us for it.
Customer Testimonial
“What set you apart in the first place is knowing that extreme automation is an integral part of your process and product, and that you were thinking about the customer's experience. The onboarding experience across Databricks and AWS was a breath of fresh air. In the time we completed the Acante PoV, we couldn’t even onboard the other vendor we were evaluating. We love your customer-centricity. You have done an awesome job - keep it up.” - Patricia Anong, Director of Platform Engineering & Governance, Clinician Nexus
About Clinician Nexus
Clinician Nexus, based in Minneapolis, is a key player in the healthcare and education data space. They enable their customers to build a high-quality clinical workforce through transparency and insight into compensation, productivity, and clinical learning using a single software platform. Their mission is to ensure fair compensation and benefits benchmarking while maintaining strict compliance with HIPAA and other federal regulations. Given the highly sensitive nature of their data, compliance, privacy and security are a top priority.
The Problem
Clinician Nexus needed to build a data platform that could securely analyze, aggregate and operate as a secure broker of sensitive data that is subject to stringent federal compliance requirements. They picked Databricks as their data platform of choice, and required a comprehensive data and access governance framework that not only met, but exceeded the regulatory requirements:
- Implementing an extensive data tagging framework for PHI, PII, payroll and other business sensitive data
- Monitoring access patterns to detect drifts or security anomalies, and over-permissioned access privileges
- Establishing a complete lifecycle process of managing access privileges from granting to auditing usage, to revocation
- Implementing streamlined workflows into their platform to manage fine-grained permissions and entitlements
- Ensuring a highly automated, GitOps-friendly onboarding process that integrates seamlessly into their existing operational toolchain
- Overcoming inefficiencies in manual data analysis and governance, which drained engineering resources and slowed innovation velocity
As their platform scaled, these access-related challenges became major blockers, underscoring the need for an intelligent, automated, modern solution.
Product Selection
The team evaluated three solutions, including one from a well-known legacy player in the access governance space. The results were clear:
- Competitors required painful onboarding processes, often taking weeks to months and demanding a dedicated engineer for deployment
- Demo experiences of the workflows from competitors were underwhelming and uninspiring
- The overall complexity and inefficiency of other solutions made them less viable for Clinician Nexus’ needs
Why Acante?
Acante stood out from the start:
- Fast & Easy Deployment: Our highly automated scripts allowed for seamless self-service onboarding across Databricks and AWS within tens of minutes.
- Superior Communication: From day one, our consistent, transparent, and proactive engagement set us apart, as was the genuine desire to leverage their feedback in shaping the product experience
- Customer-Centric Approach: The team immediately recognized Acante’s commitment to their success, a commitment that has only grown stronger over time.
- Modern, Streamlined Solution: Our intuitive platform empowered Clinician Nexus’ data governance team to take ownership of several governance processes, significantly improving efficiency and reducing burden on the data platform team.
The Outcome
Clinician Nexus’ leadership has emphasized how critical it is for Acante to maintain its customer-first approach as we scale, guidance we take to heart. Within weeks of onboarding Acante, the team has automated several of their data compliance processes, resulting in significant operational efficiency and savings. Their success with Acante underscores a vital lesson for data-driven organizations:
"Comprehensive access governance, when built into the foundation well, saves tremendous operational costs as the platform scales and accelerates engineering innovation velocity."
For organizations struggling with manual processes or legacy data governance tools, Acante represents the future. A modern solution built around automation, simplicity, and streamlined workflows is essential for data platform and governance teams to meet today’s data security, compliance, and privacy demands.
Ready for the Future of Data Access Governance?
If you’re ready to evolve beyond outdated governance processes, Acante could be the right choice for you. Let’s build the future of data access governance together.
