Data as a Product

Data Mesh introduces a paradigm shift in enterprise data management by treating data as a product, emphasizing decentralized and domain-oriented approaches to data handling. This model enhances data accessibility, usability, and trustworthiness, ultimately improving business insights and decision-making. Key principles of successful data products include discoverability, understandability, and inherent value, ensuring data is valuable and usable in its own right. Roles such as Data Product Owner and Data Product Developer are crucial for creating and maintaining these data products, focusing on integration, user satisfaction, and generating actionable insights. The shift from viewing data as a mere asset to a product underscores the importance of data sharing over storage, aiming to align data metrics with business value. This transformation requires an empathetic design approach and a supportive underlying self-serve data platform to effectively create and manage data products, thereby contributing to the overall business bottom line.