Wanted a cloud data warehouse that could scale to large volumes without having to maintain and handle individual database tuning and optimization for data warehouse.

Selected Zing Data for data visualization, analytics, and alerting because it works on both desktop and mobile -- and let me ask questions with any mix of natural language (using LLMs), visual querying, or SQL with a typeahead. Looker is super expensive and requires a lot of up-front modeling. Sigma is fine for finance folks but not really good for dashboards and non-spreadsheet users, plus has more limited alerting and no mobile capabilities. Power BI was too windows centric (no mac app, can't add data sources from web).