Introducing Dataprep: AI-Powered, Chat-Based Data Preparation for Everyone

The brand-new solution by Astera delivers a simple-yet-powerful conversational approach to data prep

Westlake Village, September 08, 2025: Astera is thrilled to announce the release of Astera Dataprep, a chat-based, AI-powered data preparation platform. Using Astera Dataprep, anyone from business analysts and marketers to finance and operations professionals can clean, transform, and prepare data to make it analytics-ready by prompting in natural language or plain English. 

Using Dataprep is as simple as solving all your data related queries through a conversation. You don’t need to have any technical expertise to use this tool. 

This launch reflects our commitment to making data management accessible to everyone — moving beyond tools built primarily for technical users to a new generation of user-friendly solutions that anyone can use to get their data clean, structured, and ready for insights in minutes.

With Astera Dataprep, you simply describe what you need, and it takes care of the rest behind the scenes. Need to clean up a spreadsheet or join data from multiple sources? Just type your request as if you were chatting with a colleague, and see the results appear instantly.

Here are a few examples of what you could ask Astera Dataprep to do: 

• Remove duplicate entries from a dataset (e.g. eliminate repeated rows) 

• Combine data from two files (for example, join sales.csv with inventory.xlsx on a Product ID) 

• Standardize formatting (fix inconsistent date formats or casing in text fields) 

• Create a new calculated field (e.g. compute Total Sales by multiplying Price by Quantity) 

All of these commands execute in real time — meaning you can instantly see these changes taking place in a live preview grid, allowing you to catch issues early and prepare your required data. In other words, you get to interactively prepare your data and trust the results, without any guesswork. 

Let’s have a look at some key benefits:

• Natural Language Simplicity: Describe your data task in plain English — no code or formulas needed. 

• Truly for Everyone: An intuitive experience designed so that both non-technical users and data experts can achieve results quickly. 

• Faster Time to Insight: Automate tedious preparation steps and get data ready up to 100× faster than traditional methods. 

• Instant Feedback: Preview the results of each change in real time, ensuring accuracy and confidence in the final dataset. 

• Seamless Integration: Connect to spreadsheets, databases, cloud sources, and easily export cleaned data to your favorite analytics tools. 

• Context-aware Data Preparation: the tool doesn’t only rely on the commands but also remembers the context of the conversation while preparing your data. 

Astera Dataprep represents a new chapter in self-service data preparation. It eliminates the usual learning curve and puts powerful data transformation capabilities directly into the hands of those who need them.  

Ready to see it in action? Start your free trial today.

About Astera

Established in 2009, Astera Software is a rapidly-growing provider of enterprise-ready data management solutions. The company specializes in no-code, user-friendly, AI-powered tools that make data integration, extraction, and warehousing accessible to both technical and non-technical users. Trusted by government departments and Fortune 500 companies like USDA, Xerox, HP, and Novartis, Astera is based in Westlake Village, California

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Sameen Faisal
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