A picture is worth a thousand words. The world has become vastly more data-driven, and attention spans are shorter than ever. Businesspeople have little patience for walls of text or rambling meetings – they want charts, tables, figures.
Businesses understand this. Large enterprises can spend upwards of 7-8 figures annually on data infrastructure to enable this across ERP / CRM, ETL, data warehousing, transformation, data science, business intelligence (BI), reverse ETL, and more. Further, Forrester research shows that 61% of organizations use more than four BI tools, and 25% use more than 10.
While the data infrastructure and BI stack is feeling increasingly dynamic and fragmented these days, one thing has remained consistent – how the data is ultimately consumed. PowerPoint and Google Slides remain king, and (at least for now) it doesn’t seem like anyone is coming for the throne.
A massive gap exists between the “consumption” layer (i.e., slide decks) and the BI / infra layer. According to data analysts that Insight spoke with in our market research, highly paid data analysts may spend anywhere from 20-30% of their time copy-pasting charts from Excel, screenshotting BI tools, or manually populating visualizations using on-prem tools like Thinkcell. Large enterprises can have 100+ decks of 50-100+ pages that span functions across marketing, investor relations, divisional reporting, and more. It’s gotten to the point where analysts are spending more time copying, pasting, and formatting than thinking about insights or strategy – and they absolutely hate it.
For the same reasons, these same analysts absolutely love Rollstack.
Rollstack bridges the gap between the infra / BI layer and the consumption layer, enabling anyone to embed, resize, and format data visualizations directly in their decks. Once configured, users can refresh the data with one click, instantly generate multiple versions of a deck based on permutations of filters, schedule automated deck updates, generate insights using AI, and much, much more.
For customers, the value is clear:
- “Before Rollstack, 30% of analysts’ time was spent screenshotting charts in Tableau, pasting them into our monthly reports, formatting them, and doing version control. Rollstack took it from 10 days a month to 5 minutes, freeing my team to spend time thinking about actual insights from the data” – VP Operations, F500 Company
- “I’ve worked at 3 public companies and this was an issue in each of them. Rollstack was a holy grail.” – Strategic Finance Head, Rollstack Customer
We met Rollstack Co-founder & CEO Nabil Jallouli years ago, when Rollstack was still in the ideation phase. From Day One, his relentless focus and passion inspired us, and along with his co-founders Younes and Saad, he has assembled a world-class team to improve the lives of data analysts and businesspeople everywhere. We’re thrilled to welcome Rollstack to the Insight family and lead their $11M Series A.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so we’ll stop talking and let the product speak for itself. If you’re a data-driven company looking to automate visualization updates in PowerPoint or Google Slides, let Rollstack show you how much faster you can be – and what new analyses and insights you might find around the corner!
