We adopted Data Hub in the context of a large enterprise customer operating in a regulated industry with a strong focus on data governance, data discoverability, and ownership clarity across multiple cloud-native platforms. The solution was deployed on AWS, and the main business problem was the lack of a centralized, reliable view of data assets, including poor data discoverability, unclear data ownership and stewardship, limited lineage visibility across ingestion and transformation layers, and high dependency on tribal knowledge held by a few individuals. Data Hub was selected as an enterprise data catalog and metadata backbone with the goal of enabling both technical teams and business users to easily understand, trust, and reuse data.

We used Data Hub to create very good data discoverability, assign data ownership and stewardship, improve data quality processes, and establish good data governance for our customer in terms of data catalog, data lineage, and metadata management in general.

Our key benefits that we achieved include centralized metadata management across multiple AWS services and data platforms and improved data discoverability, significantly reducing the time required to find relevant data sets. Clear data ownership and stewardship improved accountability and collaboration between teams. End-to-end lineage visibility enabled faster impact analysis and safer changes, and faster onboarding of new data users through self-service access to documentation and metadata. From a governance perspective, Data Hub became a single source of truth for metadata, supporting both compliance requirements that are very important in a data governance environment and day-to-day operational needs.

The main strengths we experienced with Data Hub are a strong metadata model and its extensibility because Data Hub offers a rich and flexible metadata model that adapts well to complex enterprise scenarios. Excellent lineage capabilities are provided because the lineage visualization is clear, actionable, and extremely useful for impact analysis and governance workflow. The open source foundation with enterprise readiness is significant because the open architecture avoids vendor lock-in while still being suitable for production-grade environments.

Data Hub is very effective for us because we build the data lineage from the beginning, from origination to visualization, to the final use of the data. We follow and track a path of the data, which improves analysis and enables us to find where data is used and the impact of deleting data. This is also very important in a regulatory environment.

The impact is very positive, and there are many benefits for us using Data Hub because it was easier to make data governance, create centralized metadata management, improve data discoverability, and manage data in general. The areas for improvement, in my opinion, are the initial setup and configuration that can be complex without prior experience, especially in large-scale environments. User experience for non-technical users could be further simplified, particularly around advanced metadata concepts. The out-of-the-box governance workflow, for example, approvals and certification, could be more prescriptive for customers at early maturity stages.

Data Hub can be improved in the initial setup and configuration that is somewhat complex, and also in operational monitoring that could benefit from more native dashboards and alerts. However, these are not blockers, but areas where additional guidance or product enhancement would further accelerate adoption.

I have been using Data Hub since 2023.

Based on internal measurement and feedback from the data teams, there are many impacts. Time to locate and understand a data set was reduced by approximately 40-50 percent. Manual documentation effort was reduced by around 40 percent. Dependency on senior data engineers for data explanation dropped significantly. Data onboarding time for new team members decreased from weeks to days.

I would rate this product a 9 out of 10. I chose nine because Data Hub proved to be a robust, scalable, enterprise-ready data catalog that is well-suited for AWS-based architecture and complex organizational environments. It is always possible to improve and useful to maintain space for further optimization.

My advice is to use Data Hub to move from fragmented metadata and manual processes to a modern, governed, and self-service data ecosystem, delivering clear value in terms of efficiency, cost saving, and data trust. We would confidently recommend Data Hub to organizations looking to improve data governance, data discovery, and metadata management on AWS.

My main use case for Acryl Data is analytics.

Acryl Data helps with processing large amounts of data as it is a very good tool that gives good flexibility to store a huge amount of data and is easier to use. The UI is good.

The best features Acryl Data offers include storage. When I mention storage, I refer to its scalability.

The positive impact of Acryl Data is that it has increased efficiency.

I do not have comments on how Acryl Data can be improved.

I have been using Acryl Data for two years.

Acryl Data is stable.

Acryl Data's scalability is good.

The customer support is good.

I did not previously use a different solution.

My experience with pricing and setup was good.

I have seen a return on investment as it has saved time.

Before choosing Acryl Data, I did not evaluate other options.

My advice to others looking into using Acryl Data is that they can use it. I gave this product a rating of 9.