Best Modern Metadata Management Tool| Secoda

Enterprise data catalog built for modern data teams

Data governance on autopilot

Leverage data governance frameworks to control data access to ensure data security and governance policies are followed. Enable role-based access permissions (RBAC) across all data resources.

Instant answers from verified sources

Get instant answers from data sources that the data team has verified. Maintain a single source of truth so both data producers and consumers users can quickly answer questions independently.

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Improve data discovery and usability

Secoda catalogs metadata in a searchable and organized repository to make it easier for both data and business users to find the data they need. Democratize access to its context, such as data definitions, quality, and lineage.

Automate maintenance and upkeep

Keep your metadata repository updated without having to lift a finger with defined rules with Secoda Automations.

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Integrates with your whole stack

Out of the box connections and flexible APIs.

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“Secoda gives our data science and data engineering teams the ability to work on building a common company knowledge instead of storing everything in our heads.”

Teresa Zhang

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Head of Data Science

Upholding industry-leading security standards

SOC 2 compliant

Secoda is SOC 2 Type 1 and 2 compliant. The way we process and store client data is secure and protected, based on standards set by the AICPA.

Self-hosted environment

You can host Secoda in a self-hosted environment, behind your own VPN, and in your own VPC. Deploy via Terraform or Docker.

SAML, SSO, and MFA

SSH tunneling

Securely move data from your private databases to Secoda with SSH tunneling.

Auto PII tagging

Get control to remove or leave out sensitive datasets from your syncs or mark it automatically in Secoda.

Data encryption

Data managed with Secoda is fully encrypted in transit and at rest. We do not see the data we are moving.

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.

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