User Guide

Discover the Coalesce Catalog App

Coalesce Catalog is an App to help companies find, understand, and use their data.

It's a data catalog meant to bridge 🌉 the worlds of business and engineering teams. It should be used by all, without training, and establish a consensus ☮️.

Sounds simple enough but how does it do that ?

🕵️ Find your data

Coalesce Catalog retrieves, processes and maps all your metadata. From your warehouses, your BI tools, your transformations tools. Why? Simply to provide you with an hawk eye view on every single of your assets! Queries, descriptions, frequent users, lineage... Yes all of these and so much more

With all this information centralised, it makes it easy to autonomously search through the information so that you can quickly find the data that you need.

If you are scared by the volume of data and don't know where to start looking, Coalesce Catalog also has solution for that: it computes popularity scores for each table to let the most useful tables stand out.

🧑‍🏫 Understand your data

Coalesce Catalog not only centralises the list of your tables and dashboards, but it also centralises all the documentation around them.

Coalesce Catalog scans through all the tools, such as DBT, where documentation efforts have already been deployed and documents tables from popular APIs (ex. Salesforce). All the knowledge surrounding your data can be placed in the Catalog App.

Part of the metadata we extract are the queries which are run on the data. This allows us to establish the links between the different elements and enhances your understanding of where your data comes from and how it was created.

🧑‍💻 Use your data

After helping you find and understand your data, Coalesce Catalog will also help you use it.

With the understanding you have gained, you will trust the analyses that have been performed by others and will not require to duplicate the effort.

To perform new analyses, Coalesce Catalog also helps you write your queries. For each table, it will list the queries related to said table, so that can use them as a starting point.