Member-only story
Lessons I Learned From Building Self-Service Data Platform
Is distributed data ownership right for your organisation?
What Is a Self-Service Data Platform?
You walk into your nearest supermarket, grab a basket, fill it with whatever you need, and walk to the checkout counter. You scan the barcodes of the items, pay, put them in your bag and leave the place—all of it without interacting with a single person in the supermarket.
Imagine that your business stakeholders are looking to answer a particular question. They bring their data into a data lake or a data warehouse, curate it, and create a BI report for it. Once again, doing this without depending on a team to enable them. Welcome to the self-service data platform — “A platform to enable stakeholders to ingest, curate, share and report on the data they own without relying on any other team.”
Traditionally, data platforms have been built, maintained, and iterated by central teams who manage both infrastructure and data. This creates a dependency and a perception of a bottleneck for new initiatives and requirements. To solve this challenge, a lot of organisations commenced on the path of distributed data ownership or, in simple words, multitenancy.
