Data Products and Assets

• Data products are a curated collection of data sources published in the Request app. Data products provide a single unit that consumers request, stewards review, and Immuta provisions in the underlying data platform. Data products can be discovered in the Immuta Request app or in your data catalog. See the Manage data products page for a how-to on publishing products.

• Assets are representations of data objects that users can request access to through their data catalogs. Assets include a request form and a review flow that users will go through to request access. See the Manage assets page for a how-to on editing the request forms of assets.

Data products

Data products are published and managed by data product managers in Immuta. They are typically highly curated and ready for consumption by the business. Any Immuta user can browse the data products in Immuta and request access directly in the UI, which will be provisioned automatically in their data platform.

Metadata

A data product contains the following metadata:

• Name

• Description (optional)

• Subject matter expert (SME) (optional)

• Access requests

• Data sources

• Columns

• Request form

• Members

Data sources and columns

Data products list the data sources contained within them and the columns of each of those data sources, so that users can know the access they are requesting:

• Data sources are the data objects in the data product (tables, views, or files). Any data source within the domain specified when publishing the data product can be added to the data product. For each data source Immuta shows:

  • Data source name

  • Fully qualified path with the host

  • Access status for the current user

• Columns are organized per data source and include the following information:

  • Column name

  • Column tags

  • A red-eye icon and the label Masked will indicate that a masking policy is applied to the column

Members

• Members: Members of the data product are users who are approved for access to the product.

• Data stewards: Data products also have data stewards. These users are configured in the request form for the data product. They can be assigned by permission, domain, group, attribute, or username.

Editing a data product

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.

Assets

Assets are representations of your data objects in Immuta. They are created automatically when you register a connection and will dynamically update with object crawls. Because they are created from a connection, they reflect the hierarchy of your data platforms and allow you to configure request forms for every data object for your specific requirements.

Only users with the GOVERNANCE permission or designated as data stewards in a request form can see assets.

Assets do not currently show members or access requests. To view the access requests for a specific asset and deduce the current members, filter by the asset name on the Access requests page in the UI.