Transform how your organization shares data. Our marketplace simplifies discovery and access for consumers while giving governance teams unparalleled insight into how data is actually being used.
Overview
In most organizations, accessing data is a fragmented process hidden in emails, chat messages, or generic tickets. These tools grant access but fail to capture the crucial business context: why is the data needed and how will it be used? This leaves governance teams with a significant blind spot, unable to track the true value and usage patterns of their data assets.
Blindata’s Data Product Marketplace transforms this chaos into a streamlined, transparent experience—like an internal App Store for your data. It acts as a central hub where data consumers can easily discover, understand, and request access to certified data products.
For data consumers, this means no more guesswork. They can find what they need, understand its context and quality, and submit access requests in a few clicks, dramatically accelerating their projects.
For data producers and governance teams, the marketplace provides what security and ticketing tools can’t: a rich, auditable record of data consumption. By tracking not just who has access but also their intended use, you gain invaluable metadata on how data is leveraged across the business. This closes the governance loop, ensures compliance, and provides the feedback needed to create even better data products.
Features
Blindata centralizes everything you need to manage, discover, and securely share data products—fostering collaboration, governance, and reuse across the organization.
Access Requests
Allow users, teams, and applications to request access to data products in a structured and auditable way.
Request Approval
Enable data product owners to review and approve access requests, ensuring responsible and transparent data sharing.
Collect Insights
Capture the business purpose and intended use case, enriching your metadata with real-world context.
How To
Stop searching through outdated wikis or asking colleagues where to find data. The marketplace acts as a central, trusted storefront for all your organization’s data products. You can browse by business domain, filter by tags, and assess data quality at a glance. Each listing is enriched with comprehensive metadata, including ownership, lineage, and service-level objectives, so you can confidently find and trust the right data for your needs in minutes, not days.
Move beyond generic tickets that lack context. When you find a data product, you can initiate an access request directly from its page. The structured form prompts you to specify not just what you need (which data ports), but also why you need it—your business use case. This clarity helps data owners make faster, more informed approval decisions and creates a detailed, auditable history of data intent that is invaluable for governance and compliance.
No more wondering about the status of your data request in a black-box ticketing system. Once submitted, you can follow your request’s journey in real time, from submission to approval. Data product owners are automatically notified to review your request, and you receive updates as its status changes. This transparent, end-to-end workflow eliminates ambiguity and the need for follow-up emails, letting you focus on your work.
Business needs are not static, and your data access should adapt with them. As projects evolve, the original purpose for accessing data may expand. For example, a dataset initially approved for departmental reporting might now be needed for a new, cross-functional machine learning initiative. The marketplace allows you to transparently update your subscription with this new business justification, ensuring the data’s use remains aligned with its approved purpose.
This agility also empowers data governance. When policies change or new compliance information is required, like completing a survey to classify data sensitivity, producers can request updates from all active consumers. This ensures your data usage records are always current and compliant without the hassle of re-issuing every permission from scratch. And when a project concludes, access can be revoked with a single click, maintaining a secure and clean data environment.
Accelerate innovation by building on what already exists. Think of data products as trusted Lego blocks. The marketplace provides clear visibility into how existing products are being used across the organization. This allows you to identify opportunities to compose new, high-value products from proven components, rather than starting from scratch. This practice drastically reduces redundant engineering effort, drives consistency, and fosters a truly scalable data ecosystem.
Automate your end-to-end access control workflows by connecting the marketplace to your tech stack. Blindata provides a simple, event-driven API that sends real-time notifications whenever access is granted, modified, or revoked. Use these subscription events to trigger actions in your other systems, such as:
Automatically provisioning permissions in your data platform of choice.
Creating or closing tickets in your preferred tool.
Updating user groups in your identity provider (IdP).
This ensures the governance decisions made in the marketplace are instantly and consistently enforced across your entire data ecosystem, eliminating manual steps and closing compliance gaps.
