Consistent data across your organisation
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One of the many benefits of a contract-based data platform is that it ensures consistency over how data is created, managed, and consumed across your organisation.
Data Contracts
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The power of data platforms
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Platforms in general, and data platforms in particular, can be a powerful enabler for an organisation.
One definition, many representations
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Once you have a data contract defined you can represent it in as many different ways as you want.
Data contracts implement a data mesh
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Data contracts can be used to implement a data mesh.
What makes data contracts more than a schema?
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People new to data contracts often ask “how is that different to a schema?
Limit data divergence
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Data is created by various systems and applications owned by various teams.
Vertical slicing
When delivering on a large project (data contracts, data mesh, or any large project) you need to realise value early and often.
3 steps to getting started with data contracts
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Getting started with data contracts doesn’t have to be complex.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Enforce standardisation with data contracts
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Data is published by many different systems, and as the number of systems increase it’s likely your organisations data will become less standardised over time, with different identifiers, different semantics, and so on.
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