The magnificent shine of data products

Hold on! What is a data product in the realm of data products?

In recent years, there has been a significant evolution in data products, primarily influenced by advancements in data science.

It’s essential to understand the various types of data products and what contributes to their success while mitigating the risks associated with over-reliance on them. In our journey, we focused intensively on improving our operational data as the foundational layer for advanced data consumption. This includes raw data, or as data governance terms it, data assets – the original entities and tables filled with operational data, usually not heavily transformed or modified. For the purposes of this chapter, we will keep referring to these as data assets, but note that you will find a variety of definitions around.

Figure 11.1 – Data assets versus data products simplified

Here, on one side, we have data...