Business-driven data governance
dataspot. helps organizations understand and govern their data from a business perspective. By creating a shared, end-to-end view of data, teams gain clarity, trust and a reliable foundation for data-driven decisions, automation and AI initiatives.
Share a common understanding of data
Establish trust and governance
Reduce complexity across data landscapes
Explore the core capabilities of dataspot.
Bridge business meaning and technical reality
Business definitions are linked with technical metadata, showing how data, systems and changes are connected across the organization.
Make data ownership and responsibility transparent
Roles, permissions and accountability are directly linked to data assets, enabling effective Data Governance in daily work.
Understand data impact, lineage and quality
Gain end‑to‑end visibility into data lineage, quality and impact. Understand how changes affect data, reports and processes, and build trust in data used for decisions.
Integrate metadata into your existing landscape
Organizations
Managing metadata with dataspot. software.
Metadata visibility
Across business, technical and organizational perspectives.
Customazible
Models, metadate assets and governance rules adapt to your organization.
Connectors
Features
Business perspective on data
Bridging the gap to IT
Simple data governance
Link your data to the organizational and process structure so that it is created in the right quality and correctly accounted for from the outset.
Intuitive usability
Ensure that your departments can also describe, find and understand their data – without specialist IT knowledge.
Make data-driven decisions
Allow your organization to make informed decisions based on high-quality data.
Projects on time and on budget
Save valuable time and resources by optimizing and automating data tasks.
Decisive competitive advantage
Set new standards in your organization with a contemporary approach and an advanced tool for your metadata management.
Business-driven by design
dataspot. is built around business understanding, not technical schemas. Business users define meaning, ownership and context creating a shared language that connects departments, systems and decisions.
Where governance meets daily work
Governance lives where data is created and used.
Responsibilities, quality and impact are directly linked to data assets making governance practical, transparent and effective.
Metadata where you need it
dataspot. connects metadata across systems and makes it available where decisions are made in catalogs, reports and processes. Secure, integrated and always up to date.
FAQs
How does dataspot. support the translation between technical and business data?
dataspot. enables a mixed lineage that visualizes the translation between application data and technical data. Mappings between both views can be graphically represented and easily understood.
Can dataspot. represent the business impact of data?
Yes, dataspot. offers a business understandable view of the effects of changes on other data, data products, and functions. This allows you to understand the consequences of data changes throughout the company.
How are metadata and responsibilities managed in dataspot.?
The software allows you to manage metadata in an integrated manner with clear responsibilities. You can all metadata embedded in multi-level hierarchies in dataspot. and directly assign data responsibilities to the respective assets on all levels
Does dataspot. access real data?
No, dataspot. does not directly access real data but focuses on managing metadata. This approach ensures higher data protection and security standards, as accessing real data is avoided, minimizing the risk of data leaks and data protection breaches. Additionally, the system remains efficient and user-friendly because it focuses on the structure and quality of the data without having to process the complexity and scope of the actual data content.
How flexible is dataspot. in terms of import and export functions?
dataspot. supports the import and export of metadata in various formats such as XML, XLSX, CSV, and JSON, as well as via Rest API, which makes the software very flexible for integration into existing system landscapes.
Can dataspot. display data quality along the data lineage?
Yes, the software shows where data quality is measured and how poor data quality affects the company’s data. This allows for a better understanding of the impact of data quality issues.
Does dataspot. offer capabilities for modeling data lineage?
Yes, dataspot. offers both simple and complex modeling options for data lineage, including definable and typable individual rules for transformations
Can users have different permission levels?
Yes, dataspot. allows the assignment of different permissions, including a read-only user group that can only see published elements and versions. dataspot. supports role-based permissions on all levels of metadata.
Does dataspot. support multilingual frontends?
Yes, dataspot. supports German and English. With release 2026.3, French will be officially supported as well.
How are processes and data transformations managed in dataspot.?
dataspot. enables the management of processes, the assignment of data to individual processes, and the mapping of process dependencies. Additionally, data processings can be documented with the lineage functionality. This supports a comprehensive understanding of data flows within the company.
Does dataspot. have a connector for my application?
With our standard connectors, you can connect almost any system to our metadata management solution. However, we approach our projects use-case-oriented and therefore only access technical metadata selectively. Contact us if you have questions about a specific connection.