About Data Products

Collibra Data Products is a framework that is designed to streamline the governance, sharing, and operationalization of data across your organization. At the core of this framework is the Data Product asset, which is a reusable package that combines physical data with essential business context and reliability standards. To enforce these standards, the framework uses data contracts, which are formal data delivery agreements represented by machine-readable YAML manifests that define data quality and service-level objectives. This structured approach enables both technical and business stakeholders to discover and use trusted data to make informed decisions.

Benefits

Data Products provides everything that your team needs to manage the end-to-end data lifecycle of a data product. Its key benefits include the following.

Benefit	Description
Dedicated operating model	Out-of-the-box asset types that are preconfigured to accurately map your data sharing landscape.
Data contracts	Data delivery agreements that specify the data structure, format, and service-level objectives. Each data contract includes a manifest to enforce data quality and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Automated worklows	Ready-to-use workflows that guide your stakeholders through building, reviewing, and checking out Data Product assets through a data basket.
Centralized views	Data product registry and data contract registry that provide centralized views of all data products and data contracts, respectively.

Example

Companies collect Human Resources (HR) data in various systems, such as human resource systems, employee surveys, and learning management systems. Analysts often have difficulty locating the data that they need for analysis and decision-making because the data is spread across multiple sources. When you create an HR Analytics data product, all relevant HR data points, such as turnover rates, employee satisfaction, and hiring efficiency, are consolidated into a single entry point. The data product helps analysts know what data is included, the purpose of the metrics, and how to access the data, simplifying the analysis process and supporting data-driven decision-making in HR.

How Data Products works

Data Products operates by combining a structured, out-of-the-box operating model with automated workflows to help you build, manage, and share trusted data packages. To accurately map your data sharing landscape, the solution relies on the following asset types.

Asset type	Description
Data Product	A data product is a reusable package that is designed to provide the exact data that you need to answer a business question or solve a specific problem. It ensures that information is secure, easy to use, and actionable, enabling anyone to make data-driven decisions even without domain expertise.
Data Product Port	A data product port is the interface through which a data product interacts with your ecosystem. It links to the data product as an output port to expose data, or as an input port to consume data.
Data Contract	A data contract is a data delivery agreement that guarantees what your data looks like (schema and format) and how reliable it is (quality and SLAs). Behind every contract is a manifest that defines and enforce these rules.

Related topics

• Core concepts
• About Data Product assets
• About Data Contract assets
• Data Products operating model
• Setup overview
• About the Data Products application

Helpful resources

• Data Products learning path
• Data products in action
• What is a data product
• What is a data contract
• Scaling trust with data contracts
• Accelerating trusted data product delivery with data contracts