Trusted Data Flow with Data Products, Data Contracts and CDC
The value of data in today's business world is indisputable. However, it has become critical not only to access data but also to share it in a reliable, accurate and appropriate manner. Three important concepts stand out at this point: Data Products, Data Contracts and Change Data Capture (CDC).
Data Products: Thinking of Data as a Product
For many companies, data is no longer just a stored resource. Data has become a product that can be shared, used and re-valued. With data products, different teams can easily find, understand and safely use the same data.
User friendly: With self-service access, teams can access the data they need without being dependent on IT.
Reliable: Data quality is maintained with well-defined schemas and metadata.
Compatible: Easy to use across different systems and teams.
Data Contracts: The Key to Trust and Consistency
Data contracts play a critical role in ensuring trust, transparency and consistency between data providers and data consumers. Schema, format, freshness and access rules are clearly defined to ensure uninterrupted and reliable data flow.
For data products to be sustainable data contracts comes into play. Data contracts are an agreement between producer and consumer teams. The structure, format and usage rules of the data are clearly defined, changes are controlled and backward compatible, and both legal and security requirements are observed. Thus, changes in data flow do not disrupt business processes, and a secure and sustainable collaboration between teams is ensured.
Change Data Capture (CDC):
Capturing Data in Motion
Data often originates in operational systems: orders, customer movements, payment transactions. CDC captures these changes in real time and transforms them into data streams. This enables instant integration between different systems, feeds reporting and analytics processes with up-to-date data and eliminates waiting time for critical business decisions.
Why is it Important?
Properly constructed data products, supported by data contracts and made real-time with CDC:
Business decisions are accelerated,
Disconnects between systems are reduced,
Customer experience improves,
Data governance is strengthened.
Conclusion
It is no longer enough to simply store data; it has become a necessity for companies to manage it intelligently and deliver it in a way that adds value to business processes. Data products, data contracts and CDC are the building blocks of this transformation journey.
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