Coginiti, a secure collaborative data operations platform, and Expanso, an upstream data control platform, have announced a strategic partnership to address this. The combined solution aims to provide a secure, governed path for moving and operationalizing data from remote, on-premises, or air-gapped locations to AI and analytic systems, while mitigating runaway costs, compliance risks, and slow time-to-insight associated with traditional data movement.
Coginiti and Expanso partner to secure data flow from edge environments to AI systems.
Expanso processes and governs data at the source, filtering and masking before transport.
Coginiti operationalizes the cleaned data through DataOps and a semantic layer.
The solution targets 50%+ data volume reduction before reaching centralized cloud storage.
It enables complete data lineage and standardized metrics for BI and AI agents.
Designed for regulated, hybrid, and air-gapped environments where traditional stacks fail.
Traditional approaches that move raw data to centralized platforms create significant cost, bandwidth, and security issues. The partnership inverts this model. Expanso's platform operates at the data source—whether at the edge, on-premises, or in air-gapped networks—to filter, mask, enrich, and apply governance policies before any data is transported. This upstream control dramatically reduces the volume of data moved, cuts cloud egress costs, and ensures sensitive information never crosses insecure boundaries.
Once high-value, governed data is moved, Coginiti's platform takes over to transform it into trusted, actionable data products. Through SQL-centric DataOps workflows, teams can collaboratively test, model, and publish data. Coginiti’s enterprise Semantic Layer standardizes business logic and metrics across all consumption points—from BI tools like Tableau and Power BI to operational applications and AI agents—ensuring consistency and reliability in downstream insights.
The integrated solution is specifically designed for modern enterprises where data is generated across fragmented, secure environments. It addresses the limitations of centralized-only architectures by providing governance from the point of ingestion through to consumption. Key benefits cited include dramatic cost reduction (over 50% in data volume, up to 88% lower egress costs), faster data onboarding (60% reduction in time), and the delivery of clean, governed data that is essential for reliable AI model outputs.
"Organizations no longer operate in clean, centralized data architectures. They need a secure, governable path to transform distributed raw data into reliable, AI-ready insights. By combining Expanso's upstream control with Coginiti's DataOps and Semantic Layer, we're making it possible for enterprises to build trusted analytics and AI systems regardless of where their data originates," said Rick Hall, CEO of Coginiti.
"Most enterprises are drowning in data they shouldn't be moving in the first place. Our customers depend on us to solve this where data is created - cutting volume at the edge before it hits their infrastructure budget. Partnering with Coginiti means that high-value data follows a trusted path into analytics and AI once it lands. This combination is built for organizations operating across distributed, regulated, or air-gapped environments where traditional data stacks break down," said David Aronchick, CEO of Expanso.
The Coginiti-Expanso partnership represents a strategic response to the evolving data landscape, where value is increasingly generated at the periphery. By linking secure, intelligent data reduction at the source with robust DataOps and semantic management, the partnership provides a blueprint for enterprises to overcome data gravity and build scalable, trusted analytics and AI systems in hybrid and highly regulated environments.
About Coginiti
Coginiti is the secure data operations platform that enables teams to transform analytics into governed, reusable data products. Through SQL-centric DataOps workflows and its enterprise Semantic Layer, organizations standardize logic, improve productivity, and deliver trusted insights to BI, operational applications, and AI. Coginiti serves leading commercial and public sector organizations across highly secure and regulated environments.
About Expanso
Expanso provides upstream data control for enterprises drowning in distributed data. By processing, filtering, and governing data at the source - edge, on-prem, or cloud - Expanso cuts data volumes, reduces costs, and makes downstream platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, and Splunk faster, cheaper, and more reliable. With 100+ connectors and policy-driven pipelines, Expanso delivers governance and cost control without ripping out existing infrastructure.
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