Unlock faster answers and smarter workflows with Secoda + Microsoft Teams

Stay informed and responsive with Secoda's Microsoft Teams integration, designed to keep your team in the loop with real-time notifications directly where they work.

As data professionals, staying on top of critical updates is essential for maintaining data quality and operational efficiency. But in practice, alerts are often scattered across tools, and business questions pile up in chat threads, making it hard to stay focused and responsive.

With Secoda’s Microsoft Teams integration, you can streamline both challenges in one place. Real-time alerts flow directly into your Teams channels, ensuring important updates never get missed. At the same time, Secoda AI is available right inside Teams to answer data questions automatically, powered by your metadata. This reduces duplicate requests to the data team, speeds up responses for business users, and keeps communication clear and consistent.

By combining notifications and AI-powered answers in Teams, Secoda helps your organization stay aligned, reduce noise, and keep workflows moving without switching between platforms.

What is Secoda?

Secoda is a data and analytics governance platform that brings your catalog, lineage, documentation, monitoring, and access management into a single, AI-powered workspace. It’s designed to make trusted data accessible to everyone in the organization, not just technical teams.

With Secoda, organizations can:

• Centralize governance by managing metadata, quality, and access in one place
• Improve reliability with monitoring, data quality scores, and incident workflows
• Scale self-service through Secoda AI, which provides context-aware answers and automates documentation
• Cut complexity and cost by consolidating multiple point solutions into one platform

Secoda integrates natively with the modern data stack, becoming the system of record for how data is defined, monitored, and used across the business.

The Secoda x Microsoft Teams extension

The Microsoft Teams extension brings Secoda directly into your everyday workflow. Teams can stay on top of data incidents, schema changes, and documentation updates with real-time notifications, while also getting instant answers from Secoda AI inside Teams channels.

Key features

• Secoda AI
  Ask questions directly in Teams and get automatic answers powered by your organization’s metadata from Secoda. Business users receive consistent, context-rich responses, while data teams spend less time handling duplicate or repetitive requests.
  
  
• Dedicated notification channels
  Set up a channel in Teams where all Secoda updates flow. Keep alerts organized and configurable so your team only sees the notifications that matter.
  
  
• Real-time alerts
  Get notified instantly about critical incidents and general updates. Each alert includes context about the affected data resources, so your team can quickly assess and respond without leaving Teams.
  
  
• Seamless integration
  Once connected, Secoda AI automatically replies in your designated Teams channels with no extra setup required. The integration supports the full range of Secoda notifications, from data quality issues to pipeline alerts and documentation changes, ensuring your team is always informed where they already work.

How does the Microsoft Teams integration work in practice?

Imagine these scenarios:

1. For data engineers
   Secoda detects a row count drop in a production table. An alert is sent to the Teams channel with full context, allowing engineers to review the issue, discuss it, and coordinate fixes, all without switching tools.
   
2. For data owners
   When new tables are added to a schema, Secoda posts a Teams notification to the appropriate channel. Owners are prompted to document them immediately, keeping the catalog accurate and up-to-date.
   
3. For business users
   Instead of messaging the data team directly, a business user asks Secoda AI a question in Teams. Secoda responds instantly with the correct metadata-backed answer, reducing noise while keeping workflows moving.

These workflows allow your entire organization to access reliable data context and act quickly, all within Microsoft Teams.

Why does this matter for data teams?

Secoda’s Microsoft Teams integration is designed to make communication around data faster, clearer, and more consistent. By combining real-time alerts with Secoda AI answers inside Teams, organizations gain five big advantages:

1. Reduced duplicate requests

With consistent, AI-generated answers available in-channel, teams avoid answering the same questions multiple times. This frees up the data team to focus on deeper analysis and issue resolution.

2. Instant answers for business users

Instead of waiting for a data engineer or analyst, business users can ask Secoda AI questions directly in Teams and receive immediate responses based on your organization’s metadata.

3. Context where you work

Responses from Secoda AI aren’t just surface-level answers—they include metadata context from your catalog, lineage, and documentation. This ensures users not only get the right information, but also understand the “why” behind it.

4. Faster response times

Critical incidents and schema changes are flagged instantly in Teams, reducing the time it takes for engineers and owners to assess and resolve issues.

5. Less context switching

Teams can review alerts, ask questions, and collaborate on fixes directly in Microsoft Teams, without bouncing between multiple tools.

How to set up the integration

Getting started with the Microsoft Teams integration is simple:

Step 1: Create a Secoda channel in Teams

Navigate to Microsoft Teams and create a new channel or decide which existing channel you'd like to use for Secoda notifications and AI assistance.

Step 2: Create a webhook

Follow Microsoft's guide on how to create an Incoming Webhook.

Step 3: Connect Secoda to Teams

In Secoda, go to Settings > Administration > Extensions and select “Connect extension”. Find Microsoft Teams and paste the Incoming Webhook URL into the Connection section.

Step 4: Customize your notifications

Choose which Secoda notification types you want to receive alerts for in your Teams channel.

Step 5: Start conversations with Secoda AI

That's it! Your team is now connected and ready to ask questions to Secoda AI and receive real-time data alerts in Microsoft Teams.

Final thoughts

Managing data updates and questions across multiple tools often slows teams down, leaving important alerts buried and business users waiting for answers.

With Secoda’s Microsoft Teams integration, those challenges are resolved in one place. Alerts flow directly into the channels your teams already use, while Secoda AI delivers instant, metadata-powered answers to data questions without adding more noise.

The result is faster responses, clearer communication, and fewer context switches. Your organization stays aligned and efficient, with both updates and answers accessible right where work happens.

Try the new integration today and let us know how it's helping your team stay connected and informed!