Parker Conrad knows which employees are worth their AI spend and says Rippling can help you, too
Key takeaways
- The pitch is that the modern data stack — the galaxy of tools that companies currently jury-rig from multiple vendors — can be collapsed into one.
- That s what Rippling Data Cloud, launching today, is designed to deliver.
- To see it in action, Conrad shares his screen from his San Francisco office, and then offers a window into what Rippling found when it turned the product on its own workforce.
Parker Conrad wants you to believe that a huge chunk of data analytics belongs inside human capital management systems — a claim that conveniently positions Rippling, which started out as an HR software company, to compete directly with dedicated business intelligence tools.
The pitch is that the modern data stack — the galaxy of tools that companies currently jury-rig from multiple vendors — can be collapsed into one. Just moving data from your various business systems into a warehouse is itself a massive industry; that s what companies like Fivetran and Airbyte do. Then you need somewhere to store and query it, like Snowflake, then something to transform and clean it, like dbt Labs, then a visualization layer like Tableau on top.
Conrad s argument is that Rippling knits together all of that into one system and wraps it in something the others lack: a built-in understanding of your org, its ever-evolving reporting structure, and everything impacted when any metric moves up or down. That s what Rippling Data Cloud, launching today, is designed to deliver.