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What does data.world do?
data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the “data people”—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use.
What is a data catalog?
A data catalog is a metadata management tool that companies use to inventory and organize the data within their systems. Typical benefits include improvements to data discovery, governance, and access.
Unite and Discover
- Inventory data and analysis from the cloud, on-prem databases, tools, and teams
- Connect data, metadata, and documentation
- Unify search and discovery across your data ecosystem
Govern And Access
- Secure access with fine-grained permissions for data viewing, editing, and publishing
- Track provenance and lineage automatically
- Connect to your governance and compliance systems
Collaborate and connect
Make it easy for diverse teams to work together on data projects. Let everyone use the tools they know and love so they can contribute fully, share results in context, and capture lineage across tools, teams, and data sources.
- Access and work with data on-prem, in the cloud, and everywhere in between
- Use 50+ pre-built integrations, and build your own with flexible APIs
- Stay in the loop with activity feeds and alerts
Reproduce and reuse
- Document sources, contributors, and analysis to build trust and transparency as you work
- Reuse and adapt prior data work to give your teams a head start
- Improve data literacy by making best practices easy to replicate
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