Data leads

Best tools for data leads

Secoda lets you automate the work you dread, while giving your organization a single source of truth for company data.

Why data leads should use Secoda

Save time and money by consolidating your data discovery, quality, and governance processes.

Understand your data

Secoda pulls metadata from your data sources to create documentation automatically, so you can consistently get the information you need and remove the manual work of documentation.


The Secoda difference for data leads

Automate your teams’ documentation efforts

Create a repository for new employees to access

Manage all data questions and requests in one place

What are the benefits of using a single data catalog tool?

Improve the speed of decision-making by having a centralized location for your company’s data. With granular role based permissions, you can enforce consistent data policies and standards. Secoda lets you surface data quality issues in the same place where discovery happens so you’ll never be left in the dark.

Integrates with your whole stack

Out of the box connections and flexible APIs.

FAQs

Why is data governance software important?

Admins and Editors on Secoda can view most frequently used datasets and user’s most recently opened resources.the Secoda provides insight on what the most frequently asked questions from your team are, empowering admins to be proactive about their data documentation.

What are the benefits of using a data portal?

Secoda is an all in one platform for your data knowledge. Unlike alternatives, Secoda's data portal allows anyone on your team to easily search, understand and use company data, regardless of their familiarity with data. Some of the benefits include: improved data literacy, faster on onboarding to data, and better visibility and governance.

Does Secoda have an API?

Yes, Secoda has an API for our docs, collections, lineage, dictionary, catalog and questions. The API can be accessed on our Business and Enterprise plans.

Which data warehouse tools can I integrate with Secoda?

Secoda integrations with Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift, Databricks, Postgres, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MySQL and S3. For more information about our integration, you can visit our integration docs.

Does Secoda integrate with Okta or Active Directory?

Yes, Secoda has the ability to connect with tools like Okta and Active Directory to manage your permissions from your RBAC tools. This way, you can confidently share Secoda knowing that the right people are seeing the right information.

Which BI tools can I integrate with Secoda?

Secoda integrations with Tableau, Looker, Metabase, Redash, Mode, Sigma, Power BI and Google Data Studio. For more information about our integration, you can visit our integration docs.

Does Secoda work with dbt?

Yes, Secoda works with both dbt Cloud and Core. Secoda is able to take the information from your YAML file and present it in your data discovery platform. In addition, Secoda also brings in dbt tests, tags, metrics and column level lineage into Secoda.

Does Secoda automate data lineage?

Secoda automates column and table level data lineage. In additional, Secoda also brings in tests, events and ETL into data lineage. All of Secoda's lineage is automated, but users can also manually contribute to lineage using Secoda's API.

Does Secoda include data monitoring or quality?

Secoda consolidates your data monitoring and observability, catalog, lineage, and documentation in one central platform so you can reduce complexity and save budget.

Does Secoda integrate with Git?

Yes, Secoda integrates with Git and provides a version control for all changes made in Secoda in Git. This allows data teams to have a version of all metadata changes in Github or Gitlab and roll back changes if needed. In addition, data teams are able to merge changes to a metadata and review changes to their workspace in Git using Secoda.

What metadata does Secoda extract?

Secoda does not pull in your data. Instead, Secoda pulls in metadata about your data. For a majority of the integrations connected to Secoda, this means Secoda pulls in resource names, popularity, lineage, queries, descriptions and frequent usage. For more information about our integration, you can visit our integration docs.