DatabricksAmr Ali, Bernhard Walter, Fran Medina Castro, Glenn Wiebe, Karthik Subbarao, Lexy Kassan, Magnus Pierre, Pawarit LaosuntharaExplainer
Enterprise data products are presented as managed assets that deliver the right data at the right time, with appropriate quality, format, and usability for users and applications. Their value depends on clear ownership, business-aware data product owners, and five trustworthiness characteristics: quality and observability, semantic consistency, privacy, security, and discoverability. The proposed lifecycle runs from inception and design through creation, publication, operation and governance, consumption, and retirement, with data contracts, quality metrics, testing, versioning, access management, and lineage supporting those stages. For Databricks implementations, the guidance recommends Delta Live Tables expectations and constraints, staged development, testing and production environments, automated monitoring, and Unity Catalog for discovery, governance, lineage, auditing, and access controls.
Organizations need high-quality, trusted data products to support data-driven decision-making and AI objectives. Data quality and usability must remain reliable regardless of whether an organization adopts a data mesh architecture.
Assign data product owners, define data contracts and quality metrics, build and test products through staged environments, publish them with versioning and access controls, and operate them with monitoring and governance. Databricks recommendations include Delta Live Tables expectations and constraints and Unity Catalog for discovery, lineage, auditing, and access management.
A data product can include tables, dashboards, machine learning models, streams, or other assets, provided it facilitates an end goal through the use of data.
Data product owners remain accountable across the lifecycle, from inception through retirement, while individual tasks can be shared with data stewards, engineers, and other stakeholders.
Unity Catalog provides centralized metadata management, discovery, lineage tracking, access controls, auditing, and compliance capabilities for enterprise data products.
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