By user types

This section focuses on how Dataedo supports various user groups by addressing their unique challenges and improving their workflows.

Understanding business concepts

Companies generate vast amounts of data daily, making it challenging to navigate complex data environments without clear documentation. Inconsistent terminology between technical and business teams can cause confusion, while disconnected business metrics complicate alignment with technical insights.

Dataedo helps bridge these gaps by offering detailed documentation, a centralized business glossary, and connections between business metrics and relevant data assets.

For whom: Business analysts, data stewards, domain experts.

What it solves:

• Makes it easier to navigate through complex data environments with clear documentation.
• Provides a centralized business glossary to ensure consistent use of terminology across teams.
• Helps users understand key business metrics and their connections to data assets, supporting better decision-making.

Finding data

Modern organizations depend on various expanding data sources, making it difficult to find the right information for reporting, analysis, or troubleshooting. Unclear relationships between data elements and the gap between technical data and business terminology often exacerbate this challenge.

Dataedo addresses these issues by providing intuitive search capabilities across documented data sources, offering ER diagrams to visualize relationships, and creating links between business terms and technical data. This simplifies data discovery and enhances understanding for all users.

For whom: BI developers, data analysts, data scientists.

What it solves:

• Allows users to search across documented data sources, including data lakes, warehouses, and databases.
• Shows relationships and dependencies with ER diagrams for better understanding.
• Links business terms to technical data assets, making it easier to connect business needs with the data.

Trusting data

As data flows through various systems and undergoes multiple transformations, organizations often lose transparency and trust in its reliability. They also face challenges in ensuring data quality and maintaining compliance with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.

Dataedo helps restore trust by providing traceable data lineage, highlighting data quality metrics and certifications, and identifying sensitive data to ensure compliance. These features empower organizations to confidently rely on their data for decision-making and regulatory requirements.

For whom: Compliance officers, decision-makers, data consumers.

What it solves:

• Tracks data lineage to show how data flows and changes throughout systems, ensuring transparency.
• Highlights data quality metrics and certifications to establish trust in the data.
• Identifies sensitive data and ensures compliance with regulations like GDPR and CCPA.

Facilitating change

In dynamic environments, managing system changes can be complex, often leading to unintended consequences that cause disruptions. Developers, database administrators, and project managers encounter challenges in understanding the downstream effects of schema changes and in effectively coordinating upgrades or migrations.

Dataedo addresses these challenges by offering insights into dependencies, conducting impact analysis, and providing clear documentation of changes. These features empower teams to confidently manage changes, minimize disruptions, and enhance collaboration.

For whom: Developers, database administrators, project managers.

What it solves:

• Provides impact analysis for schema changes, showing how changes affect downstream systems and users.
• Reduces disruptions by visualizing dependencies and usage patterns, enabling controlled upgrades and migrations.
• Ensures proper documentation for changes, improving coordination during development or outsourcing.

Collaborating across teams

Cross-functional teams often struggle to align due to a lack of shared understanding and communication gaps between technical and business users. These issues can hinder effective collaboration, slow down onboarding processes, and diminish the overall quality of documentation.

Dataedo helps address these challenges by bringing together technical and business teams through a single source of truth. By providing a shared platform for managing metadata and fostering collaboration, Dataedo enhances documentation quality and accelerates onboarding.

For whom: Cross-functional teams.

What it solves:

• Promotes collaboration by offering a shared platform for documenting and managing metadata.
• Encourages feedback and suggestions to improve documentation quality.
• Simplifies onboarding for new hires by providing clear and complete data context.