Actian Explained #2 – Actian Data Observability

Actian makes it simple to discover and use your company data with data observability. The Actian Data Intelligence Platform makes data products easily consumable via data contracts and discoverable on the enterprise data marketplace. This makes companies capable of leveraging the data they have in the present for the innovative use cases they have in store for the future.

However, once data has been made discoverable, the question is, how trustworthy is this data? Is it consistent across your data infrastructure? Can we really rely on this data for the strategic use cases that are so vital for the future of our company?

Enter data observability. Strategic use cases demand trustworthy data. You need to access data in your hybrid multi-cloud data infrastructure to make it discoverable and ensure its quality.

You need data observability because only trusted data of high quality will make the difference when you push forward with innovative ideas. Think of the word observe. What does it mean?

We observe what we already know exists to see how it travels, how it transforms. Observing data is about monitoring the data up against thresholds as it travels and transforms across the enterprise data infrastructure.

So let's unfold that. In Actian, we are pushing forward with a best in class data observability solution for the Action Data Intelligence Platform. Unlike legacy data observability solutions that are clunky, expensive, slow, and based on sampling, in Actian we are setting up our data intelligence platform to perform data observability in a way that is simple, fast, cost effective, and complete.

Thanks to our carefully conceived architecture, the Actian Data Observability solution observe all your data without stressing source systems. You need to know that data observability depends on data lineage. Observability sees data quality but cannot track movement between observation points.

True data observability requires data lineage to track movement across data infrastructure. Because lineage tracks that movement across the data infrastructure and that enables the data to be observed. Using the Actian Data Intelligence Platform and its precise graph powered data lineage, your company will be able to build trust in data with observability, allowing you to set policies that define the criteria for good data quality.

Based on this, you continuously get to assess if the quality of data meets these policies as data moves across your data infrastructure. In Actian, we understand that companies need confidence in their data, and that is why Actian is introducing data observability because we know that your data is your future.