Data Products application: Centralized oversight for all your Data Products

Data products have become the centerpiece of modern data strategies, but standing one up is only half the battle. GartnerⓇ mentions that “By 2027, over 80% of data products created using data mesh will fail to scale past initial deployment due to a lack of ownership clarity, inadequate life cycle planning and poor cross-domain collaboration” ( source). In other words, the hard part is managing them over time. And that requires a single place to see what you own, how it's used and which data products to prioritize next.

What's new: The Data Products application

The Data Products application is a dedicated homepage and workspace where data product owners, managers, platform owners and stewards centrally manage their Data Products, not just the ones published for consumption, but the entire portfolio across every lifecycle stage. It brings together a Data Product registry, Data Contract registry and centralized dashboard all in one hub.

Instead of navigating individual asset pages and stitching the full picture together in their heads, portfolio owners get a single view of what they own, how it's being consumed and what to work on next — outstanding usage requests, products awaiting certification or data quality rules, DQ monitoring alerts and data issues with impact analysis. It's the difference between a Data Product being a metadata page and being managed like a real product. Crucially, it becomes the starting point for every data-product-management capability Collibra builds going forward.

How the new Data Products application helps

Managing a Data product portfolio takes more than a catalog. The people accountable for it, data product managers, platform owners and stewards, need a workspace built for how they actually work: one view of everything they own across every lifecycle stage, with a clear sense of what needs attention next.

That's what the Data Products application delivers. It brings Data Products, Data Contracts and adoption together into a single management surface, so instead of piecing the picture together across separate views, owners can see, prioritize and act on their whole portfolio from one place, and hand off consumer discovery to the Data Marketplace when a product is ready.

Problems it solves

• No single workspace for owners:Producers and platform owners have no home base for the products they're accountable for. The App gives them one place covering every product across every lifecycle stage, not just what's published.
• Lifecycle blind spots: Candidate, in-development, published data products are scattered across asset pages; the registry brings them together in views by status so nothing falls through the cracks.
• Unclear "what's next": Owners don't know what needs attention. The management area surfaces outstanding usage requests and products awaiting certification as a prioritized to-do list.

Inside the Data Products application

The Data Products application is a Collibra-embedded app designed specifically for data product managers and data platform owners. It's organized around a small number of primary surfaces that share a common navigation and context model, so moving between them never means losing your place.

Homepage. The landing page includes links to useful resources. If you have the Data Products > Manage Application Layout global permission, you can edit the home page using the page editor.

Dashboard. The Dashboard area is where visibility becomes action, giving owners a way to track adoption and monitor lifecycle progress across their portfolio. A lifecycle tracker walks owners through the key stages, beginning with creating a Data Product, so they can see how far each product has advanced. Together, these capabilities turn the portfolio from a static catalog into a prioritized, trackable to-do list.

Data Product Registry. At the core is a single list of every Data Product the user owns or is responsible for, across all lifecycle stages, not only what's published to the Data Marketplace. Products are organized into views by status (for example candidate, in development, published, retired), so owners can see the whole portfolio side by side, then search, filter and sort down to the exact slice they care about and open any product for detail. This is the home base for the people accountable for the portfolio.

The Data Contract registry is a single view containing all Data Contract assets you have permission to see, where producers and consumers align on exactly what a data product promises: schema, quality and SLAs defined in one place. Each contract is bound to its data product port, so the agreement stays tied to what's actually delivered as the product moves between teams. Selecting any row opens a preview pane where you can review active manifest versions, SLA commitments or contract details without navigating away from the page. And because the registry is built on the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS), your contracts stay portable and work with the tooling your teams already use.

Why you should be excited

Data product owners: Get a single workspace for every Data Product and Data Contract you own across all lifecycle stages (not just what's published to the Marketplace), where you can find, filter and manage without hopping between asset pages, track adoption and let the lifecycle tracker and work queues tell you what to work on next.

Data platform owners: Get portfolio-level visibility and control to see what's in production, where data quality is slipping and where adoption is concentrated, then act on it directly from the dashboard by drilling into the exact assets behind any number.

Stewards and governance teams: Manage Data Products, Ports and Contracts at the portfolio level with registry-level oversight and lifecycle visibility across every stage, while certification and DQ-rule gaps surface as queues that make governance-by-design something you can actually operate.

Use cases

• Triage the portfolio in a single morning review: A platform owner opens the homepage, sees three products with active DQ monitoring alerts and two usage requests awaiting approval, clicks a dashboard bar to open the side panel of affected assets and clears the queue — all without leaving the App or reconstructing status from individual pages.
• Move a candidate to certified without losing the thread: A data product manager filters the registry to "in development," opens a product in the Assets-in-Context panel to confirm its schema, ownership and contract, works the lifecycle tracker tasks to add missing DQ rules, and advances it toward certification and publication to the Marketplace.

Key takeaways

The Data Products application is what lets organizations scale their data products with confidence instead of watching them stall after launch. It gives the people accountable for the portfolio a single hub to find, manage and act on everything they own across every lifecycle stage, replacing scattered asset pages with centralized oversight so ownership stays clear, adoption scales and lifecycle transitions stay under control as the portfolio grows. It closes the gap the Data Marketplace was never meant to fill: not consumer discovery, but producer and platform-owner management, unifying registry, management, contracts and portfolio metrics into one workspace on the Collibra Platform. And because every future data-product-management capability starts here, this release is as much a foundation for the future as it is a feature for today.

Where to learn more about the new Data Products application:

Get started with our product documentation.

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  Dylan Greenfield

  Dylan Greenfield

  Senior Product Manager

  Collibra

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  Meredith Bailey

  Meredith Bailey

  Senior Product Marketing Manager

  Collibra

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  Ivo Pospíšil

  Ivo Pospíšil

  Software engineer

  Collibra