# Managing Data Products

A data product is a valuable output derived from data. It is designed to provide insights, support decision-making, and drive business value. Data products are created to meet business needs or solve problems within a domain or organization. These products can take various forms. In most cases, it is a collection of tables and views, which is what is supported by Immuta.

## Data product metadata registration

The [Monitor and secure sensitive data platform query activity](/2024.2/detect-your-activity/getting-started/overview/registering-metadata-for-detect.md) use case covers how to register your data metadata, but it's worth discussing in more depth here because you have multiple data product owners.

As a first step, all the tables/views on the data platform(s) must be onboarded in Immuta. With the [no default subscription policy setting](/2024.2/secure-your-data/authoring-policies-in-secure/section-contents/reference-guides/subscription-policies.md#default-subscription-policy) (which is the Immuta default), onboarding objects in Immuta will not make any changes to existing accesses already in place.

Immuta only starts taking control when the first policy has been applied. We suggest that one team registers all objects from your data platform(s). Alternatively, different domain owners can register their own domain data. It is recommended to use a system account to do the data registration.

Regardless of which user registered the data, it's critical that [schema monitoring](/2024.2/data-and-integrations/registering-metadata/schema-monitoring.md) is enabled to ensure future tables and views are discovered by Immuta and automatically registered to the proper domain.

Be aware that registering your data product metadata with Immuta does not make it available to users. It simply makes Immuta aware of its existence. To allow users to see it and subscribe, you would manage policies on it, discussed in the [Applying federated governance](/2024.2/secure-your-data/getting-started-with-secure/overview-2/apply-federated-governance.md) guide next.

## Who will do this?

Any team member that has the necessary user credentials in the underlying platform to read the data.

## Related guide

[Registering your data metadata](/2024.2/data-and-integrations/registering-metadata/data-source-overview.md)


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