This month’s release is packed with powerful updates designed to unlock more from your catalog. From the launch of Archie Chat, your AI-powered assistant for instant answers, to a new design and functionality for our Resource pages, we’re bringing faster workflows and deeper insights to every user. We’ve also rolled out new and enhanced collectors—from Amazon DMS to AWS Glue, ADF, and beyond—giving data teams the visibility they need to govern modern, complex data stacks. And coming soon: new Governance Dashboards that bring actionable insights, helping you measure engagement and optimize your data strategy.
🔥 What’s New?
💬 Archie Chat – Your AI-Powered Data Assistant is Live
Say hello to Archie Chat, the intelligent assistant that turns your data catalog into an interactive knowledge hub. Now available in Public Preview, Archie delivers instant, context-aware answers. Archie Chat answers questions and helps you navigate the catalog instantly, using context from your own data resources, glossary terms, and our product documentation to help you get answers faster.
Data consumers can use natural language to ask questions like “Tell me what you know about marketing campaign attribution” or “What does ACV mean?”, and get quick, reliable answers from your catalog. Stewards and admins can ask things like, “What’s the fastest way to add lots of relationships at once?” and get immediate, actionable guidance—no digging through docs required.
Quick Tip: Archie is now in Public Preview and free to try. Reach out to your Customer Success representative to get started today!
✨ Resource Page Redesign – Usability Reimagined
The Resource Page redesign and new functionality is here. We've overhauled the resource page experience, creating a more intuitive layout, providing edit history, and other new powerful features that put speed and insight at your fingertips:
- Streamlined layout and design for faster understanding and navigation
- Rich activity feed that capture your data's story
- Inline editing capabilities
- New preview options
- Enhanced filtering options
The new Activity feed is now generally available and you can read more about it here. The redesigned Resource Overview page and tabs are in Public Preview and users can read more about that here. You can read more about it here. One click is all it takes to transform your workflow.
🔄 Amazon Data Migration Service Collector – Lineage Through the Cloud Migration Journey
Our new Amazon DMS Collector brings visibility into your cloud migration pipelines by capturing lineage from AWS Data Migration Service (DMS) jobs. Whether you’re migrating on-prem databases to the cloud or using DMS for change data capture (CDC), this collector gives you line-of-sight traceability into how data moves across systems. Now, you can govern these migration flows with confidence, maintain compliance, and ensure your catalog reflects your evolving data architecture.
💫 What’s Improved?
🧬 AWS Glue Collector – Deeper Metadata, Stronger Lineage
We’ve supercharged the AWS Glue Collector to bring in even richer metadata and more complete lineage. The collector now captures detailed metadata from Glue Data Catalog tables—including file types, sizes, serializers, and deserializers—as well as improved job metadata. Even better, it now builds lineage to S3 objects, providing full traceability back to the ultimate source. This enhancement empowers more robust impact analysis and stronger governance across your AWS data landscape.
🔗 Azure Data Factory Collector – Smarter Lineage for Parameterized Pipelines
The ADF Collector just got an upgrade: it now captures lineage from parameterized datasets, surfacing both upstream and downstream references in complex, dynamic pipelines. This gives data teams clearer visibility into data movement across ADF workflows—especially in cases where pipeline logic changes based on parameters—resulting in more accurate lineage, improved trust, and tighter control over your data flows.
🔧 Public API Enhancements – Create & Manage Discussions Programmatically
Now you can create and manage discussions directly through the public API, making it easier to capture critical conversations wherever they happen. Whether integrating with ticketing systems, BI tools, or custom workflows, this enhancement turns your catalog into a true collaboration hub—bridging the gap between data context and team communication. By embedding conversations directly into the metadata layer, you unlock smarter decision-making and greater operational efficiency.
🔮 What’s Next?
📊 Coming Soon - New Governance Dashboards
Later this week, we’re launching a new suite of Governance Dashboards in the Admin Portal—your command center for understanding how your data catalog is being used. These interactive, visual dashboards give instance administrators the tools they need to monitor platform activity, analyze user engagement, and uncover trends across your data.world environment. From search behavior to resource metrics and usage, and daily active users, you now have the clarity to spot what’s working, what’s being overlooked, and where to invest next.
Built with ready-to-use views and flexible filters, these dashboards empower teams to make faster, smarter decisions about content strategy, user enablement, and platform optimization. This feature is exclusively available to users with Instance Administrator permissions in private instances and single-tenant deployments.
🔄 Coming Soon – New Marquez / OpenLineage Collector
Our upcoming Marquez Collector brings support for the OpenLineage standard, enabling teams to capture lineage from custom pipelines built with Python, PySpark, SQL, and more. By pulling lineage directly from the Marquez metadata store, this collector helps you document and govern bespoke or proprietary data pipelines—even when no native connector exists.
🏢 Coming Soon – New SAP HANA Collector
We’re expanding our enterprise coverage with a new SAP HANA Collector, designed to harvest standard database metadata—and even some lineage—from SAP’s powerful data warehousing platform. This collector will help customers bring critical SAP assets into the catalog for better visibility, governance, and reuse.
Ready to unlock more from your data? Contact your Customer Success representative to explore these groundbreaking updates and unlock the full potential of data.world, the simpler and smarter catalog.