Developing a smart business catalog for faster dataset discovery, cost-effective reuse across communities, and personalized outputs for users.
Client
An educational testing and assessment organization
Goal
To build and leverage a business catalog as a cost-effective solution for smart, user-specific output across varied datasets
Tools and Technologies
NOT LISTED SEPARATELY
Business Challenge
The client needed a business catalog to enable faster discovery and better understanding of datasets in a cost-effective manner, while also generating user-specific outputs for authorized individuals. The initiative began as a pilot using a select set of data sources.
Solution
- Leveraged existing AWS Data Lake and Glue catalog for extended use
- Integrated native S3 and Redshift with the catalog
- Implemented pre-defined Glue data quality rules reporting for assets to generate a trust index before subscription
- Enhanced search and discovery with AI-generated asset metadata and summaries
- Enabled seamless authentication and authorization through SSO integration
- Automated workflow-based data access management, with human intervention only at approval stage
- Designed REST API-driven onboarding process
Outcomes
- Enabled discovery of new datasets through search and subscription
- Simplified access to reliable datasets, enhancing data science and BI for generating insights
- Established a compliance framework aligned with organizational standards
- Accelerated and improved decision making through access to trusted data
