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From Chaos to Control: Data Experience on Guardrails

Craft your own standards and automate your data practice

Discover, Elevate and Productize your data

Develop

data projects across multiple data platforms, wiring all your technologies in a unified plane without any tech lock-in

Enforce

data governance into IT delivery process through quality gates, guaranteeing full interoperability among different data silos

Automate

the lifecycle management of your practice, increasing iteration speed and agility to unlock your data practitioners' full potential

Build.

Govern.

Discover.

Boost!

Witboost is a cutting-edge Data Experience platform. It streamlines data projects across multiple data management platforms

Core Capabilities

Build

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Build

Enhance the development Experience of the Data Producers through templates and automate the Data Projects deployment.

Created reusable, tested, and validated templates that are fully automated and are instilling best practices and software quality, thus becoming tech agnostic.

Use the Starter Kit to rapidly adopt any technology and leverage its specific provisioning blueprints, making the platform truly self-service.

Govern

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Govern

Help the Platform Team deliver a faster Self-Service Platform with a unified Control Plane for Data Governance.

Create computational policies acting at run time and deploy time, collecting results in a unified location for better auditing and monitoring.

Discover

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Discover

Allow all the Data Consumers to discover Business relevant information, automating the access.

Search and discover all your data projects in a single view within the Marketplace. Derive business insights from all of your domains.

BUILD - BUILD MAIN v3

Build

Enhance the development Experience of the Data Producers through templates and automate the Data Projects deployment.

Created reusable, tested, and validated templates that are fully automated and are instilling best practices and software quality, thus becoming tech agnostic.

Use the Starter Kit to rapidly adopt any technology and leverage its specific provisioning blueprints, making the platform truly self-service.

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Govern

Help the Platform Team deliver a faster Self-Service Platform with a unified Control Plane for Data Governance.

Create computational policies acting at run time and deploy time, collecting results in a unified location for better auditing and monitoring.

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Discover

Allow all the Data Consumers to discover Business relevant information, automating the access.

Search and discover all your data projects in a single view within the Marketplace. Derive business insights from all of your domains.

Amidst the data battlefield, Witboost stands as our unwavering ally, unlocking unparalleled productivity and reshaping how we conquer complexity, poised to revolutionize the future of data management with its innovative features and steadfast support

Witboost extends data platforms with a fundamental table stake seeked by data architects to serve data as products at scale to various and diverse data users whether internal or external. I am looking forward to data teams' efficiency skyrocketing to allow companies to achieve their business goals in the era of GenAI.

Witboost Success Case

Find out how a European infrastructure powerhouse saved over €10 million in risk-associated costs and hundreds of hours on data projects using the self-service, data experience platform: Witboost

  • Risk reduction valued at over €10 million

  • Data Project implementation time was reduced by 77% (from a minimum of 2 years to 6 months)

  • Data production and people onboarding costs were significantly reduced thanks to a unified and smooth workflow experience.

 

Your Tech Stack + Witboost

Forget about technology or vendor lock-in thanks to technology agnostic principles, fully extensible and open for customizations.
 
Streamline your workflow by generating a consistent user experience for the entire set of activities to be performed. Optimize the data engineering process and improve the overall development.

Who is Witboost For?

Data Producers

Rapid acceleration of successful data project launches for Data Producers.

Platform Team

Fast delivery value with a high degree of maturity for Platform Teams.

Data Consumers

Effortless data access and actionable business insights for Data Consumers.

Witboost Success Cases

Agile Lab success cases in the banking industry.

BANKING

In the competitive vertical of Banking where accurate and reliable data, as well as security, are crucial for an organization's success, our client has been powering its adoption of a new data architecture with Witboost since February 2023. Adopting a new architecture as the world's 34th largest bank by assets is no easy task.

With Witboost, users skillfully navigate and use the platform with minimal effort and domains are providing a wealth of self-service facilities, including Storage, Data Ingestion, Orchestration, ETL, SQL Access, Kafka, and Stream Processing.

Since then, they have released over 50 Data Products and are set to release another 50 in the upcoming months. This speed has been achieved with the implementation of golden paths, with minimal effort and often without the full knowledge of the specific principles that are usually required.

Logistics

LOGISTICS

Learn how Poste Italiane orvercomes the limitations of DWH by switching to a Data Mesh Architecture using Witboost. This move enabled their omnichannel strategy to flourish and obtain business-level speeds with decentralized domains, infrastructure as code principles, and interoperable data products. Using Witboost's automation and technology agnostic capabilities, they reduced new opportunities' time to market.

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Agile Lab success cases in the manufacturing industry.

MANUFACTURING

Explore how Scania uses Witboost to implement Data Mesh. Their multiple business units, spanning across the world, had to communicate with a centralized IT and Engineering team, creating friction. Witboost's collaboration and template/scaffolding features, together with its Provisioning and Governance capabilities significantly reduced organization-wide adoption and decentralization of the business units.

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Try Out Witboost

Try out Witboost by cloning templates, creating policies and building data components. Here’s an example based on Covid-19 datasets:

An example of Witboost's capabilities through a playground trial, where users can test and mold their data products into valuable business assets.

 

Covid datasets are your operational system, and now you need to start to craft domains and Data Components in the analytical space. In this context we have three domains:

  1. Demographic
  2. Healthcare
  3. Economic Impact

The overall documentation is guiding you to create your first Data Components about vaccinations, but then you can continue to create other Data Components also in other domains and connect them to each other.

The technological stack is already integrated in the playground so there is no much work for the Platform Team, even if they can create new governance policies. Instead, the Data Component team can start to clone templates and follow this walkthrough.

This sandbox starts with all permissions needed in order to implement all the required features and process and share data as a product.

Our goal is to set up a workflow that automatically reads Vaccination CSV data from Google's Covid Dataset, stores it in a database, and creates an output port for users and other data components to read from. In order to achieve that, we will use:

  • Airbyte to transfer the data from the source to a database in Snowflake
  • Snowflake for the storage and output port functionalities
  • An MWAA script for the orchestration part

The following illustration summarizes the proposed solution for a Data Component architecture:

An example of Witboost's capabilities through a playground trial, where users can test and mold their data products into valuable business assets.

 

 

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Data Experience Booster

Data Governance

Boosting Data Governance

 

Guarantee data quality with guardrails for your standards and procedures. Improve your data governance with Computational Policies and ensure that your Platform team is on point.

 

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Data Mesh

Boosting Data Mesh Adoption

 

Accelerate your Data Product creation process to minutes as you create more and more data products. Boost your discovery to a smooth experience data products can be found and even rated.

 

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Data Contracts

Boosting Data Contracts

 

Create crystal clarity and transparency around the data exchange between data producers and data consumers. Set clear accountabilities that guarantee your data consumers they get what they ask for.

 

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why should our organization consider adopting Witboost?

Witboost strikes a delicate balance between empowerment and control. While it establishes quality gates, it also enables the platform team to design a technology-agnostic platform, fostering decentralization, team autonomy, and, most importantly, simplifying their workflows. By streamlining the process of creating and managing data projects, Witboost paves the way for widespread adoption within the organization.

How can Witboost work across multiple technologies ?

Witboost seamlessly integrates with your existing technologies and platforms. Through the creation of fully automated templates, your Platform Team gains the flexibility to establish a fully self-service and governed experience across the entirety of your data stack, regardless of the technologies in use.

How does Witboost automate the data engineering process?

In today's landscape, data engineers face an overwhelming cognitive load managing numerous aspects amidst a plethora of tools and paradigms. Witboost addresses this challenge by standardizing and streamlining the adoption of new tools and patterns through templating.

These templates not only simplify adoption but also offer complete lifecycle automation. This means that data engineers no longer need to invest time in tasks like CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, tickets, or deployment scripts.

How do Witboost templates work?

Witboost templates represent comprehensive Git repositories encompassing code, metadata, documentation, environment variables, and other organizational best practices. Fully customizable by the platform team, these templates' lifecycles can be entirely automated.

When an end user clones a template, they receive the initialization of a complete and intricate data project within just 5 minutes. This ensures strict adherence to organizational best practices and policies, enabling users to concentrate solely on refining business logic.

How does Witboost apply Computational Governance ?

Witboost empowers the Platform Team to define and oversee computational policies. These policies, developed in CUE Lang or any preferred language and framework, can be implemented as microservices. Computational policies are applied during deployment to establish Quality Gates, or they can operate at runtime, such as verifying data contracts.

The Platform Team retains full control over these policies, ensuring a gradual introduction across the organization. This approach allows for effective education, awareness-raising, and integration without impeding the progress or business objectives of other teams.

What is the difference between a data product and a data project?

A data project encompasses storage, workloads, APIs, and various components similar to a Data Product. However, it lacks constraints related to standardization, ownership, observability, and other data mesh specifics. A Data Project may even constitute an entire layer of a Data Lake; it serves as a logical container and isn't deployed as a single unit.

Unlike a Data Product, which is primarily used within the Data Mesh framework, a Data Project finds application across different practices such as Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, Business Intelligence, and others. Essentially, a data project represents any data initiative with a significant and enduring lifecycle.

How much time do we need to create a first MVP of the platform using Witboost ?

In 3 months is possible to create an MVP of your self service and governed platform, with the possibility to onboard real users and show the value in your organization

How can Witboost improve Governance in my Organization?

Witboost ensures that governance standards are enforced at deploy time to prevent data debt and security/privacy breaches. It enables the adoption of practices such as Data Quality, Data Masking, Data Deletion, and more. By integrating governance into the IT delivery process, it enhances the completeness and quality of metadata within your data catalog.

Is Witboost customizable ?

Absolutely! Our entire platform is completely customizable through the implementation of API contracts. This flexibility enables you to define your preferred architectural patterns, security standards, and desired levels of automation and integration. For detailed documentation on our API, please visit https://docs.witboost.agilelab.it/

Is business driven data discovery the same as a data catalog?

No, Business driven data discovery is distinct from a data catalog.

Business Driven Data Discovery focuses on data integrity and reducing information overload, emphasizing consumable and relevant data assets. It does not edit metadata but offers proof of adherence to processes through templates and policies. It complements data catalogs by enhancing the discovery experience and enforcing policies throughout the data production process.

Witboost Resources

White Paper

The Script that Fixes Your Data: Metadata as Code

 

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Policy Use Cases

Journey into the Lifecycle of a Computational Policy

 

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White Paper

Guide to Successful Data Mesh Implementations

 

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