Question 1

Why is data governance software important?

Accepted Answer

Data governance software helps ensure data is accurate, accessible, and trusted, leading to reliable outputs, faster decisions, and reduced risk.

Question 2

What are the benefits of using a data portal?

Accepted Answer

A data portal like Secoda allows anyone on your team to easily search, understand, and use company data, regardless of their familiarity with data, improving data literacy, onboarding, visibility, and governance.

Question 3

Does Secoda have an API?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

Which data warehouse tools can I integrate with Secoda?

Accepted Answer

Secoda integrates with Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift, Databricks, Postgres, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MySQL and S3.

Question 5

Does Secoda integrate with Okta or Active Directory?

Accepted Answer

Yes, Secoda can connect with tools like Okta and Active Directory to manage your permissions from your RBAC tools.

Question 6

Which BI tools can I integrate with Secoda?

Accepted Answer

Secoda integrates with Tableau, Looker, Metabase, Redash, Mode, Sigma, Power BI and Google Data Studio.

Question 7

Does Secoda work with dbt?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 8

Does Secoda automate data lineage?

Accepted Answer

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.

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