Enterprise Data Catalog
The Enterprise Data Catalog is designed for organizations looking to manage their data assets more efficiently. It serves as a comprehensive platform for data discovery, governance, and a centralized metadata repository. This enterprise-grade solution helps teams collaborate on data projects, ensuring that data is accessible, understandable, and usable across the organization. It features advanced functionalities such as:
Data Discovery: Helps users find and understand data with powerful search and exploration tools.
Agile Data Governance: Streamlines the process of managing data access, quality, and compliance across the enterprise.
Data Lineage: Provides visibility into the data lifecycle, including where data comes from and how it's transformed over time.
AI Context Engine: Powers more valuable insights from generative AI by giving it your business context and your data.
The Enterprise Data Catalog is geared towards businesses looking to harness their data for strategic advantages, ensuring data quality, compliance, and fostering a data-driven culture. Learn more about the Enterprise Data catalog
The Enterprise data catalog comes with three deployment options.
Public instance on multi-tenant platform
Private instance on multi-tenant platform
Single-tenant installation
Public instance on multi-tenant platform
Public instances on the multi-tenant platform offer the ability to share data with and use data from the broader data.world community and other organizations. Public instances live on data.world multi-tenant shared infrastructure, which offers enhanced performance, scalability, and manageability.
If your institution wants to publish data or discover new data from a wide audience, a Public instance is ideal.
Enterprise catalog resources are stored securely in the organization namespace.
Users create accounts as part of the open data community, but as the enterprise you can set up single sign-on (SSO) to ensure only authorized users can access the catalog resources in the organization namespace.
Private instances offer some tailoring of the user experience, including a Browse card on Organization profile pages for curated navigation shortcuts.
Private instance on multi-tenant platform
Private instances offer the benefits of a multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure with enhanced security, ensuring users and content remain isolated from the broader data.world community. This option also provides customization to suit your enterprise needs. If you require strong assurances that data and users won't be shared outside your company, a Private instance is suitable.
Both the users and the resources within Private instances are completely logically isolated. Users in a Private instance cannot access community resources or resources in other Private instances, and vice versa.
User accounts are owned by the enterprise and revert to the enterprise if users leave. Enterprise single sign-on and SAML are used for validation and authorization.
Every Private instance has a private corporate community representing the activity across the company and datasets that have been set as discoverable.
Private instances provide an enhanced user experience, featuring tailored options such as a Browse card on the Application home page for curated navigation shortcuts. This is in addition to the Browse card found on Organization profile pages.
Single-tenant installation
Single-tenant architecture dedicates a separate application and infrastructure environment for each customer. This model provides additional security and compliance by using isolated infrastructure accounts.
Single-tenant provides all the same benefits as Private instances with the security controls of a walled garden, and UX customization options, with an additional layer of security: a fully separate cloud infrastructure account. If your security and compliance policies require an isolated infrastructure account, then Single-tenant may be right for you.
Logical isolation: Both the users and the resources within Single-tenant are completely logically isolated. Users in a Single-tenant cannot access community resources or resources in other Single-tenant or Private instances, and vice versa.
Account-level isolation: The servers underlying the data.world installation use a separate cloud infrastructure account from any other customer. Some customers require account-level isolation as part of their security and compliance policies, and this deployment option enables that.
Key features of deployment options
Use the following table to review the key features of each deployment option and determine the most suitable choice for your needs.
Features | Deployment options | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Multi-tenant | Single-tenant | ||
Public instance | Private instance | ||
Enterprise single sign-on (SSO) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
User accounts | Bring your own user with enterprise SSO | Separate corporate user accounts | Separate corporate user accounts |
Directly access open data community datasets and organizations | ✅ | - | - |
Custom sub-domain [you].app.data.world | - | ✅ | ✅ |
Logical isolation (walled garden) | - | ✅ | ✅ |
Private corporate community | - | ✅ | ✅ |
Account level isolation | - | - | ✅ |