Data Products

Data products are what are published to the Marketplace app by data product managers. They are typically highly curated and ready for consumption by the business.

They contain the following metadata:

• Name

• Description (optional)

• Subject matter expert (optional)

• Request form

• Data sources

• Columns

• Access requests, including access requests for the data product and masking exceptions

• Members

Request forms

Request forms work as templates that can be added to multiple data products and dictate the same access request process for any data product that uses it. Request forms provide consistent and reliable information from the requesters to the data stewards approving or denying access requests. One request form is applied to each data product and will be used for both data access and masking exception requests. Request forms contain the following content:

• Form details: Details about the request form such as the name and request questions. Request questions are the questions a data consumer must answer, and the answers will be recorded in the access request for the data steward to review.

• Review flow: The review flow configures if the access request requires approval or not, the data stewards who will approve the requests, or the ability for data product owners to select their own data stewards.

• Data use agreement: A data use agreement can optionally be included. If it is, the data consumer must acknowledge it before they can request access, ensuring they agree to how the data should be used.

• Linked data products: This is a list of all the data products in Marketplace that use this request form.

Data sources

Data sources represent any type of data that could be provided by a data product and registered in Immuta. These are currently tables and views from your data platform and objects from S3 storage. What data sources are available for the data product manager to add are dependent on the domain specified when publishing the data product.

Columns

Every data product has a list of the columns in the data sources of the data product. The list is separated by data source and provides details about the column like the name, tags applied to the column, and if the column is impacted by a masking data policy. Data consumers can make masking exception requests on the masked columns, which allow approved users to see unmasked data.

Editing the data product

Note that all data product settings and metadata are point-in-time of when the access request was made and approved. For example, if you change the data use agreement for a data product after access requests were approved for five users, those five users would remain approved under the previous data use agreement. Immuta only updates the data product with the changes for new requests, not approved or pending requests.