Collection Access Control is here!

Big news today! 🎉

You asked for more granular control of your data catalog and we listened. We're excited to introduce Collection Access Control. This NEW Feature is going to help you scale your Agile Data Governance program by providing more granular ways to control the access and management of your data catalog.



Collection Access Control provides role-based control to your metadata resources by collection, helping you target who can see and edit the resources in your catalog.

Read more about how to manage collection access on our documentation portal.

Create Custom Resources in the UI

Custom resources play an important role in a data catalog's ability to accurately represent your company's metadata. Users need to be able to add resources that aren't directly from data sources to give a full picture of their data landscapes. Now, users can create these custom resources directly from the UI and manage them like any other resource.

After designating which resources should have this feature enabled in your metadata profile, users will be able to access these resources in the "Other resources" section in the "New resource" dropdown (in the example below, the custom resources are "Bank account" and Credit card").

For more information, refer to the documentation.

Glossary Bulk Import and Bulk Edit

Introducing our newest feature: bulk import and edit for glossary terms!

Catalog administrators can now bulk upload glossary terms for faster onboarding and enrichment, and make bulk edits to ensure your catalog is always accurate.

This feature enables the following workflows:

  • upload glossary terms using a template custom to your catalog's metadata profile

  • download a spreadsheet of all current glossary terms

  • edit information, add new terms, delete terms in exported spreadsheet

  • upload updated spreadsheet to application

  • preview changes made in spreadsheet before applying changes

For more information, refer to the full documentation here.

New Connection Manager Data Source: Tableau

We now support metadata collection from Tableau via Connection Manager. Previously, users were able to collect metadata via the data.world Collector, but now users can perform this task in-app.

Both Tableau Online and Tableau Server are supported, as well as the following connection types: Direct connection (inbound), SSH tunnel (inbound, preferred).

For more information, refer to the documentation here.

New configurable browse card

We've been super busy over the last few weeks, and we're excited to share that we've officially launched a new feature called the browse card, a configurable, quick navigation card available for private instance Enterprise customers.

This configurable card shows up on your Action Center home page and helps you direct your users to important resources, organizations, collections, and other links - giving them a curated starting point. Read our Implementation Guide to get started or reach out to your Customer Success representative if you need to upgrade your catalog plan.



Get a quick summary of the access your members have

We have some awesome news! Our member access summary page is now live!

The member access summary makes it much easier for members to understand the various levels of access they have in an organization. As we work to make our access levels more flexible and granular, this page also gives our org admins the ability to quickly audit the level of access their members have and take action.


Be the first to learn about the member access summary page in our docs portal.

Explore your data pipeline with Explorer!

newThe wait is over! Explorer - the latest part of our Eureka feature suite - is now generally available to all eligible enterprise customers.  

Explorer is a visual map of your data and relationships powered by the knowledge graph. It leverages enhanced automated lineage metadata collection and the context of the graph to deliver a unified, consolidated view of your data pipeline. It serves as a source of truth, providing valuable insight into your most important data assets.

Understand your data landscape in a powerful way with an enhanced graph visualization that enriches your understanding and discovery. Query this data for more insights. Find answers in a matter of clicks, not hours or days.


Read more about the features of Explorer in our documentation portal and contact your Sales or Customer Success specialist to find out how to get Explorer lineage added to your catalog.

OAuth support in Private Instances!

Data.world now supports integrations authenticated via the OAuth protocol in Private Instances. 

A complete list of supported integrations are:

  1. DW Metadata Profile Editor + data.world
  2. dw-editor + data.world
  3. Grafo + data.world
  4. CKAN-ext + data.world
  5. Golang + data.world
  6. Slack + data.world
  7. Chart Builder + data.world
  8. Salesforce + data.world
  9. Jupyter + data.world
  10. Tableau Desktop + data.world
  11. IFTTT + data.world
  12. Google Data Studio + data.world
  13. Singer + data.world
  14. R and R Studio + data.world
  15. KNIME + data.world
  16. Java/JDBC + data.world
  17. Python + data.world
  18. MicroStrategy + data.world
  19. Power BI + data.world
  20. Plotly + data.world
  21. SPSS Modeler + data.world
  22. SPSS Statistics + data.world
  23. Algorithmia + data.world
  24. R DBI + data.world
  25. SAP Analytics Cloud + data.world
  26. KNOTS (beta) + data.world
  27. Marketo + data.world
  28. IBM Db2 + data.world 
  29. Hubspot + data.world
  30. Google Analytics + data.world
  31. Google Ads + data.world
  32. Facebook Ads + data.world
  33. Amazon S3 + data.world
  34. Excel + data.world

For developers: Any additional apps not mentioned above, but which authenticate via Oauth can be directed to point at auth.data.world. Please refer to our developer documentation to guide you through the configuration changes required.

Developer documentation: link 

New metadata collector: Fivetran

We’re pleased to announce the newest metadata collector, Fivetran, is now available for Enterprise customer use. Fivetran is a UI-based Extract Transform Load (ETL) designer for creating pipelines between users’ source systems and data warehouses. 

Metadata collected includes data source, destination, column, table, schema, and our newly announced Lineage functionality as well. You can read more about how to use the Fivetran collector in the documentation.


Changes to default access for new Organizations


The latest change in a series of updates to access control now provides a more intuitive default experience for the All members group when building a new Organization. The default experience now restricts users from viewing catalog resources or datasets and projects - allowing only view access of datasets or projects shared with the organization or set as Discoverable. This change allows admins to set more granular access through user groups with different tiers of access, leaving the default All members group as the most restricted.

To give members more access, admin users can change the access configuration for the All members group or add members to groups with more access. 


You can read more about our "out-of-the-box" user groups on the Docs Portal.

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