Ship trusted data products. Fast.
Every data product ships with built-in rules for quality, accuracy, and ownership, so you can trust it from day one. Start with the data you already have, or start with the rules.
Most vendors make you choose. We don't.
A data-first team and a contract-first team rarely agree on where to start, and forcing a single path on both stalls adoption. Actian lets each team start where they are and land in the same governed destination.
Decentralize data.
Centralize trust.
Everything a data producer needs to publish with confidence, and everything a data consumer needs to find, evaluate, and use data without waiting on a ticket.
Build data products without waiting on engineering
The Data Product Builder in Studio wraps existing datasets into governed, cataloged data products, with no code and no open pipeline required.
Author contracts together, not in raw YAML
Data Contract Builder gives business and technical stakeholders one shared, versioned workspace to define ODCS v3.1.0-compliant contracts, no code editor required.
Manage the full product lifecycle in one place
Studio is the single workspace for building, documenting, and publishing data products, so stewards and product owners aren’t juggling spreadsheets and side tools.
Shift governance left with code
Sync data contracts through your CI/CD pipeline so the catalog updates with the latest schema, quality rules, and SLAs on every deployment.
Approve access through one workflow
Consumers request data directly in Explorer; producers review and approve in Studio, with policies and audit trails built into the process.
Find trusted data at the speed of thought
Knowledge graph-powered search surfaces relevant data products in the marketplace along with their context, quality signals, and lineage.
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Build data products without waiting on engineering
The Data Product Builder in Studio wraps existing datasets into governed, cataloged data products, with no code and no open pipeline required.
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Author contracts together, not in raw YAML
Data Contract Builder gives business and technical stakeholders one shared, versioned workspace to define ODCS v3.1.0-compliant contracts, no code editor required.
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Manage the full product lifecycle in one place
Studio is the single workspace for building, documenting, and publishing data products, so stewards and product owners aren’t juggling spreadsheets and side tools.
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Shift governance left with code
Sync data contracts through your CI/CD pipeline so the catalog updates with the latest schema, quality rules, and SLAs on every deployment.
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Approve access through one workflow
Consumers request data directly in Explorer; producers review and approve in Studio, with policies and audit trails built into the process.
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Find trusted data at the speed of thought
Knowledge graph-powered search surfaces relevant data products in the marketplace along with their context, quality signals, and lineage.
Modernize your data architecture. Embrace interoperability.
Actian’s Enterprise Data Marketplace natively supports the Bitol Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS v3.1.0) and Open Data Product Standard (ODPS). Import, publish, and share data using a standard your organization owns, not one locked to a single vendor.
Built to the definition, not just the buzzword
Analysts describe a data product as a curated, self-contained package of data, metadata, and business context, built for a specific use case and ready for reuse, not just a table sitting in a warehouse. Actian’s Data Product Builder and Data Contract Builder are built around that exact definition.
Agreed upon
Schema, quality rules, and SLAs are defined and accepted between producer and consumer in the Data Contract Builder, not assumed.
Always current
Connectors and CI/CD sync refresh contracts automatically as source systems change, so nothing quietly goes stale.
Secure by design
Access controls, approval workflows, and audit trails travel with the product, not bolted on as a separate step.
Six principles that separate data products that scale from ones that collapse
Analysts point to a handful of architecture principles that decide whether a data product program survives contact with real usage. Actian’s Data Intelligence platform is built around every one of them.
Metadata is the contract
Every data product carries its ODCS-compliant contract as live metadata, not a separate document that quietly drifts out of sync.
Accountability is explicit, not implied
Ownership, SLAs, and quality rules are named fields in the contract, not in institutional knowledge that leaves when someone changes teams.
Architecture follows the product, not the platform
Data products run on your existing data platform, not a separate stack you have to stand up first, so the architecture serves the product instead of dictating it.
Operate where data lives and moves
75+ native connectors and CI/CD sync mean governance travels with the data, instead of forcing a rip-and-replace migration first.
Design for scale, not heroics
The Data Product Builder and Data Contract Builder turn one-off, hero-dependent documentation into a repeatable, reusable framework.
Ownership stays with the business
Business teams own the outcome; a data product owner steers the build in Studio, so IT is never stuck holding a decision it can’t make alone.
Most vendors make you pick a workflow. We don't.
Ask a customer what they mean by “data product,” and you usually get a dataset, documented manually, governed by policy overhead, monitored from the outside. Here’s the difference when the contract is built in, not bolted on.
Traditional data product |
Actian Data Intelligence |
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|---|---|---|
What it is |
A dataset in a warehouse |
Dataset, contract, and governance, published together |
Contract |
Documented manually, often after the fact |
Auto-generated or co-authored before the product ships |
Standard |
Governed by policy overhead |
Self-describing via the open ODCS standard |
Getting Started |
Pick one workflow and hope it fits every team |
Start data-first or contract-first, same destination |
Access |
Requested ad hoc, tracked in email or tickets |
Requested and approved in one auditable workflow |
Discovery |
Institutional knowledge of who has what |
Knowledge graph search with lineage and context |
Put the contract first, without writing YAML
Data Contract Builder gives business and technical stakeholders one shared workspace to define, version, and manage data contracts against the ODCS v3.1.0 standard. It replaces the spreadsheet or wiki page nobody trusts with a structured, collaborative process that produces machine-readable YAML your pipelines can actually use.
- Let non-technical stakeholders define what “good data” means, not just the engineers implementing it.
- Get a versioned audit trail of who agreed to what, and when.
- Hand engineers ODCS-compliant YAML that drops straight into a pipeline, no manual translation.
Build governed data products without opening a pipeline
The Data Product Builder lets Data Owners and Product Owners turn existing datasets into governed, cataloged data products directly from Studio, with no support from data engineering. Define your output ports, and Actian generates an ODCS-compliant data contract automatically, a concrete starting point for governance instead of a blank YAML file.
- Democratize access to trusted, future-proofed data products.
- Maximize the ROI of existing data assets with a reusable framework.
- Break down information silos without waiting on a backlog.
Discover trusted data at the speed of thought
Explorer is powered by a federated knowledge graph, so consumers search intuitively, explore data relationships, visualize lineage, and get context on a product before they ever request access. Quality and trust signals from Actian Data Observability surface right in the discovery experience.
- Reduce time-to-insight for data consumers.
- See freshness, quality scores, and anomaly alerts before requesting access.
- Drive adoption of data assets that already exist, but nobody could find.
Streamline access, without sacrificing security
Consumers request data directly in Explorer. Producers review and approve requests in Studio, with automated policies, access controls, and audit trails balancing enterprise speed against real security.
- Enhance data security and compliance without adding a bottleneck.
- Give consumers a single place to request access instead of an email chain.
- Give producers a centralized, auditable approval workflow.
FAQ
A data product is a trustworthy, purpose-built dataset designed for sharing and reuse across teams. A data contract is the formal, machine-readable agreement, compliant with the ODCS standard, that defines how it can be accessed and used.
Data products provide standardized interfaces and reusable building blocks that combine into new products.
Data contracts capture the metadata that follows a product through its lifecycle and create accountability for data producers.
Studio is where data stewards manage products and contracts; Explorer is where business users discover and request access to them.
Data-first means you start with datasets you already have: the Data Product Builder in Studio wraps them into a governed product, and Actian generates the ODCS contract from the output ports you define. Contract-first means you define the standard before anything ships: the Data Contract Builder lets business and technical stakeholders agree on schema, quality rules, and SLAs up front, and engineering builds to that spec. Both land in the same marketplace, so you can start with one and move to the other as your governance model matures.
ODCS (Open Data Contract Standard) and ODPS (Open Data Product Standard) are open, Bitol-governed specifications for defining contracts and products in a machine-readable, portable format. Building on them means your contracts work outside Actian too, so you’re not locked into one vendor’s proprietary format.
Data Product Builder is for Data Owners and Product Owners who want to publish a governed product from data that already exists, with no engineering required. Data Contract Builder is for teams that want to agree on the standard first, before any data moves, typically Data Stewards and Data Owners working with business stakeholders.
No. The Data Product Builder wraps datasets where they already live across 75+ native connectors, and contracts sync through your existing CI/CD pipeline. Nothing has to move before it can be governed.
Yes. Data Contract Builder is built for business and technical stakeholders to work in the same shared workspace. Business users define the rules in plain terms; the platform generates ODCS-compliant YAML behind the scenes.
An Enterprise Data Marketplace is an e-commerce-like platform where data producers publish data products and data consumers discover, understand, and access them. Actian’s Data Intelligence Platform turns traditional data silos into a marketplace experience where business users browse, request, and access trusted data products through Explorer, while producers manage the lifecycle in Studio.
Built-in scanners collect metadata from Snowflake, Azure, AWS, Databricks, legacy databases, and more, syncing daily so contracts reflect current system states without manual work. Data Contract Builder gives stewards and business stakeholders one shared, versioned workspace to define and manage those contracts against the ODCS v3.1.0 standard, so nothing lives in a spreadsheet nobody trusts. Dedicated APIs register and update data products and contracts directly from CI/CD pipelines, AI-powered classification suggests tags and business terms, and audit trails track every contract change for compliance reporting.
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