Data Democratization in Matillion Data Productivity Cloud

Recently I’ve worked with a few Matillion customers who posed questions like “Once my data engineering team publishes pipelines, how can my team of analysts explore and understand how that data is created?”

At Matillion, we believe that Data Pipelines should be treated as strategic assets. The Matillion Data Productivity Cloud provides strong visibility and access controls to assist in exactly this use case. In this blog, we’ll review how Matillion Lineage, Role Based Access Controls, and AI Auto-Documentation make data democratization easy for the modern enterprise.

Data Lineage

In a unified, end-to-end SaaS platform like Matillion, the first place you should look for high level data visibility is the built-in Lineage utility. This allows a quick view of your analytical tables, the upstream tables used to create them, and any downstream tables that may be impacted by changes. You can also find a reference to the Matillion Transformations that are used to create your tables, which will be important if you want to understand the logic that goes into the curation of your data.

By clicking into a transformation from this lineage tab, you can understand what happened the last time one of your pipelines ran.

Role Based Access to Pipelines

Speaking of transformations, the next place a business analyst may want to explore is the pipelines themselves! ReadOnly access to projects and pipelines can be provided to anyone in your organization that may want to gain a deeper understanding of their data.

AI Generated Documentation

Documentation can be a time consuming task for any engineering team. It’s easy to think “the value is in the work” and skimp on documentation that may be important for data legibility. Never fear! Matillion’s AI Auto Documentation can ease the documentation workload on your team and provide a thorough and legible account of your pipelines in seconds. Just select the relevant components and click “Add note using AI” to quickly add documentation to your pipeline.

In this blog, you learned how Matillion makes it easy for the modern enterprise to treat data pipelines as strategic assets that are visible and available to anyone in the business.

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