The platform for data producers

A data producer is a professional responsible for creating, managing, curating, and documenting enterprise data assets to ensure they are accurate, accessible, and valuable for the organization. Data producers include data stewards, data owners, data custodians, data product owners, and process owners who maintain data quality and governance standards. These roles struggle with time-consuming documentation tasks, keeping metadata current across disparate systems, and breaking down data silos that limit enterprise knowledge. The Actian Data Intelligence Platform provides automated documentation capabilities, AI-powered tag suggestions, and centralized metadata management that enables data producers to maximize data value while reducing manual effort through smart inventory features and modular metamodel templates.

Enterprise data environments constantly evolve with new data sources, schema changes, and system updates, making it nearly impossible for data producers to manually track and document every change. Outdated metadata leads to confusion, data quality issues, and compliance risks when business users rely on incorrect or incomplete information. The Actian Data Intelligence Platform offers native data source connectors with APIs and scanners that automatically retrieve and collect metadata, ensuring data is always up-to-date without manual intervention. The platform’s smart data inventory enables data producers to identify all enterprise data’s provenance, context, and uses while maintaining accuracy across the entire data landscape.

Managing who can view, edit, or administer different parts of the data catalog becomes complex when organizations have hundreds of users with varying roles and needs. Without proper permission models, data producers face security risks from unauthorized access while also creating bottlenecks when legitimate users need to find asset owners or request access. The Actian Data Intelligence Platform provides permission-set models that facilitate categorization of different catalog user types, allowing data producers to assign read-only, editing, and admin rights to all or specific parts of the catalog. This approach ensures a secure catalog while saving time when data consumers need to find an asset’s reference, balancing governance with accessibility.

Without visibility into documentation progress and catalog usage, data producers can’t identify gaps, prioritize efforts, or demonstrate the value of their work to stakeholders. Manual tracking through spreadsheets or ad-hoc queries provides incomplete pictures and consumes additional time. The Actian Data Intelligence Platform’s dashboards give data producers comprehensive visibility and insights into catalog activity, showing completion levels of documentation, the most popular and searched-for catalog items, search trends, and user engagement metrics. This visibility enables data producers to focus efforts where they’ll have the greatest impact and demonstrate measurable value to the organization.

Organizations adopting data mesh and domain-oriented architectures need to empower domain teams to manage their own data while maintaining enterprise-wide governance standards and visibility. Data producers struggle to balance autonomy with control, often choosing between centralized bottlenecks or ungoverned chaos. The Actian Data Intelligence Platform enables data producers to decentralize responsibility while maintaining oversight through federated catalogs where each domain manages its data products with appropriate permissions, automated metadata collection ensures consistency, and centralized dashboards provide visibility across all domains. The platform’s clean, intuitive interface makes it easy for domain teams to manage data products, understand provenance, and know who to contact—making decentralization possible while data producers maintain governance standards.