# Meet Enso Analytics, a flow based data prep tool. With Ned Harding & Sylwia Brodacka

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2026-04-17
- **Format:** Video · 65 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data prep, Tool strategy, Industry trends
- **Tools:** Golden Analytics
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/meet-enso-analytics-a-flow-based-data-prep-tool-with-ned-harding--sylwia-brodacka
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqFAlaYCMdc

I sit down with Ned Harding and Sylwia Brodacka to meet Enso Analytics, a flow-based data prep tool. We cover the founders' backgrounds, a live walkthrough of building a data prep workflow, and the product's approach to code views, version control, hybrid cloud/local execution, data links and a free community version.

## Key takeaways

- Enso is a flow-based data prep and blend tool aimed at business analysts rather than engineers, focused on getting data clean and ready rather than replacing visualisation tools like Tableau.
- Every visual workflow is backed by a functional code representation, which makes diff-based version control, code review and collaboration far cleaner than comparing XML or JSON.
- Enso embraces a hybrid model where workflows can run locally on your laptop while the catalog lives in the cloud, so regulated industries needn't move data off-premises.
- Data links abstract connections as shareable cloud assets, with per-user secrets stored in personal space so credentials aren't shared and access is easy to revoke when someone leaves.
- The community version gives full data prep and blend capability free for personal use, small businesses up to a million in revenue and nonprofits, with a 30-day trial of the cloud features.

## Chapters

- 0:29 Meet Sylwia and Ned
- 6:06 How the Enso team came together
- 9:52 What Enso is and where it fits
- 14:35 Data prep versus data engineering
- 18:44 Live workflow walkthrough
- 33:10 Code view and version control
- 37:36 Data links, secrets and security
- 44:05 Hybrid cloud and local execution
- 46:00 Publishing between local and cloud
- 51:52 The community version
- 56:51 Industry challenges and my own journey

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/meet-enso-analytics-a-flow-based-data-prep-tool-with-ned-harding--sylwia-brodacka

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