How Tipalti Used Seemore for Scalable, Risk-Free Data Operations
Tipalti, a global finance automation leader, adopted Seemore Data to optimize costs and improve observability. While cost was the initial hook, Seemore quickly became essential for lineage, quality control, and transparency, replacing multiple tools.
With fast onboarding and minimal setup, Tipalti saved 40% of its annual spend while maintaining performance. Now, they’re expanding Seemore’s role in BI operations and governance to extract metadata from BI tools, enabling LLM-style queries and seamless navigation through data products.
$50K saved/year
warehouse cost cut 47.6%
$11K more to save
by downsizing BI warehouse
Orphaned tables & configuration
updates drove savings
Snowflake query acceleration
to boost performance
BI cost savings
still untapped – more to come!
Challenges solved for Tipalti
Finance Automation—Accounts Payable, Global Payments, Expenses, Cars & Procurement
USA, UK, Netherlands, Canada, Georgia & Israel
1250 employees
$700m
November 2024
Tipalti needed a solution to optimize Snowflake costs while improving data governance and observability. Cost-saving tools alone weren’t enough—they required better visibility into data flows, lineage, and quality control to streamline operations. They sought a scalable, easy-to-adopt solution that could replace multiple tools, reduce costs, and enhance data transparency across teams.
Tipalti moved quickly from sign-off to impact, proving what happens when onboarding is frictionless and the team behind it knows exactly what they’re doing.
- Seamless Security Approval: Since Seemore only handles metadata, getting sign-off was fast and hassle-free.
- Delivers Exactly as Promised: No complex setup, no surprises – just immediate, reliable value.
- Exceptional Service & Expertise: The team’s deep product knowledge and hands-on support made all the difference.
Seemore became an essential tool at Tipalti almost instantly, with widespread adoption across teams. Unlike traditional cost-focused solutions, Seemore replaced multiple tools, offering a single source of truth for data flows, lineage, and efficiency.
- Database Owners track costs, processes, and warehouse performance.
- Analysts & Other Users rely on lineage and column-level insights to understand data flows, locate assets, and monitor what is running.
With fast onboarding and seamless integration, Seemore quickly became a go-to resource. Insights flow via Slack notifications, feeding directly into sprint cycles and ensuring real-time optimization and continuous collaboration, while also enabling the best practices Tipalti employs in data deployment.
Tipalti is a leader in best practices for scalable, reliable data deployment, using staging, merging, and blue-green deployment to ensure seamless updates with minimal risk. This method allows them to test thoroughly before pushing to production, reducing errors and maintaining stability. However, this structured workflow creates visibility challenges—understanding downstream impacts before merging is critical. Seemore supports this approach by providing clear lineage insights, helping teams confidently track changes and anticipate their effects, ensuring data processes remain efficient and controlled.
Tipalti is eager to expand Seemore’s role in BI operations and governance by integrating its column level lineage into metadata management. Today, locating specific reports or tracking field origins remains a challenge. With Seemore, Tipalti envisions using lineage as a metadata source, enabling teams to query BI assets LLM-style for faster, more intuitive data discovery. A successful POC has already proven its potential, and while there’s more work ahead, this innovation will streamline data navigation and enhance BI governance.
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