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Coalesce Catalog

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 ?

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🕵️ Find your data

Coalesce Catalog retrieves, processes and maps all your metadata — from your warehouses, your BI tools, your transformation tools — to provide a hawk-eye view on every single one of your assets: queries, descriptions, frequent users, lineage, and more.

With all this information centralized, it's easy to autonomously search through the information so you can quickly find the data you need.

If you are intimidated by the volume of data and don't know where to start, Coalesce Catalog computes popularity scores for each table so the most useful tables stand out.


🧑‍🏫 Understand your data

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

It scans tools such as dbt (and documents tables from popular APIs like Salesforce) so existing documentation efforts are captured. All the knowledge surrounding your data can be placed in the Catalog App.

Part of the extracted metadata are the queries run on the data. This lets Coalesce establish links between elements and enhances 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 helps you use it.

With the gained understanding, you'll trust analyses performed by others and avoid duplicating effort.

To perform new analyses, Coalesce Catalog helps you write queries: for each table it lists related queries so you can use them as a starting point.

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