March brings a host of new capabilities to data.world, including a new Snowflake integration for Tag Syncing, two new collectors (Power BI Report Server, Amazon QuickSight), a highly-requested interface improvement to better understand relationships, and a Chrome Extension for Hoots.
Read on to learn about these exciting new features!
Snowflake Tag Sync Automation [beta]
This automation allows users to edit and create new Snowflake tags within the data.world platform and then sync those Snowflake tags between Snowflake and data.world.
Key Features:
- Easily edit and create new Snowflake tags using data.world’s simple user interface
- Sync edited/new Snowflake tags back to Snowflake with the push of a button
- Display Snowflake tags in a new section titled "Snowflake Tags" on resource pages
- data.world becomes the source of truth for Snowflake tags when this automation is enabled
Why integrate your Snowflake tags in data.world?
Creating and editing tags is a breeze within data.world’s UI. Snowflake tags are powerful governance tools that allow users to apply policies, control access, and discover resources. An easier method for users to create and edit tags via the data.world means it’s easier to govern Snowflake resources.
Inside the data.world platform, you can view Snowflake Tags on Snowflake resource pages, like this Column page. You can also Sync the tags back to Snowflake with a simple push of a button.
The Snowflake Tag Sync Automation is currently in beta and is available as part of the Data Governance Premium offering. If you are interested in this feature, please reach out to your Customer Success Director and they will help enable the feature for you. You can read our product documentation here for full details.
Relationships as Fields
You asked, we listened. Our latest improvement is crafted from the desire to streamline the enrichment experience, making it easier to build, manage, and see important relationships. This capability allows metadata fields to be built using custom relationships between resource types, providing a more intelligent way to manage metadata and inspire users to build relationships. For example, if you cataloged your Teams and Data Products, you might want to create a relationship to show which teams govern which products (screenshot below). Your users might see and navigate to Team resources via Data Products, or vice-versa.
These new types of fields help users see, understand, and navigate relationships and show the knowledge graph at work. This enhancement compliments our flexible architecture that allows you to build custom Types, Fields and Relationships - deciding what to catalog and how best your users might want to navigate the related resources. This feature focuses on the philosophy that there are many kinds of relationships - some of which have an "attribute-like" utility, rather than just a related object.
You can read more about how you might use this feature in our documentation. This is now available to all enterprise customers using either MDP or Catalog Toolkit for configuration.
We hope you enjoy the new opportunities this enhancement brings to your catalog.
New collectors for Power BI Report Server and Amazon QuickSight
We’re excited to announce two new collectors: Power BI Report Server Collector and Amazon QuickSight Collector, which gather metadata from these systems and seamlessly bring it into the data.world platform. This metadata helps both technical and non-technical users discover and understand their data quickly, govern their data with greater context, and increase trust in data by providing information about data health and transformations.
Both new collectors are available in Private Preview, please contact your Customer Success Director if you are interested in participating in a Private Preview program. More information is available in our product documentation: Power BI Report Server collector, Amazon QuickSight collector.
Hoots Browser Extension for Google Chrome
Now available in the Chrome App Store is the data.world extension for Google Chrome, with the exciting new capability of automatic display of the Hoots badges on the data products where your organization’s users are using data and making decisions.
Now the valuable data trust signals, related glossary terms and additional context from your data.world catalog Hoots configuration are more easily displayed on your BI & analytics applications. With the Hoots Browser Extension capability, Hoots can be shown on Tableau, Power BI, Looker, and any other web-based application, and there’s no integration required to embed the Hoot display.
More information about the Hoots Browser Extension is available in our product documentation: Using Google Chrome Extension for Hoots.