Demystify and democratize access to your data with a business catalog (ANT202)

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Importance of a Business Data Catalog

• Context is crucial for data understanding and discovery.
• A business data catalog provides broader context beyond just technical metadata.
• It enables the association between data, actions, and outcomes, leading to more efficient processes.

Technical vs. Business Data Catalogs

• Technical data catalogs focus on metadata like data types, partitions, and indexes.
• Business data catalogs focus on providing business context, such as:
  • Business glossaries and taxonomies
  • Metadata forms for documenting data assets
  • Domains for organizing data by business units

Implementing a Business Data Catalog

• Amazon Glue Data Catalog handles the technical metadata harvesting and cataloging.
• Amazon DataON (and the new Amazon SageMaker Data Catalog) provide the business catalog capabilities:
  • Metadata creation and curation
  • Data lineage
  • Data quality integration
  • Business glossaries and metadata forms

BMS's Data Governance Journey

• Key pillars: data findability and understanding, self-service, and data access governance.
• Adopted a federated approach to business glossaries, with the central team managing horizontal concerns and domains owning their specific metadata.
• Achieved 5x more available high-quality data products for AI within 18 months.
• Utilizing DataON as a backend to build custom data APIs and simplify data publishing and consumption.