User Guide
Coalesce Catalog helps companies find, understand, and use their data. It is a data catalog that bridges the worlds of business and engineering teams. It is designed for everyone to use without training and to establish consensus.
Sounds simple enough, but how does it do that?
Find Your Data
Coalesce Catalog retrieves, processes, and maps all your metadata from your warehouses, BI tools, and transformation tools. It provides a bird's-eye view of every asset: queries, descriptions, frequent users, lineage, and more.
With all this information centralized, you can search through it to quickly find the data you need.
If you are overwhelmed by the volume of data and do not know where to start, Coalesce Catalog computes popularity scores for each table so the most useful tables stand out.
Understand Your Data
Coalesce Catalog centralizes the list of your tables and dashboards and all the documentation around them.
It scans through tools such as dbt where documentation efforts have already been deployed, and documents tables from popular APIs (for example, Salesforce). All the knowledge surrounding your data can be placed in the Catalog App.
Part of the metadata we extract includes the queries run on the data. This allows us to establish links between different elements and enhances your understanding of where your data comes from and how it was created.
Use Your Data
After helping you find and understand your data, Coalesce Catalog helps you use it.
With the understanding you have gained, you will trust the analyses performed by others and will not need to duplicate the effort.
To perform new analyses, Coalesce Catalog helps you write your queries. For each table, it lists the related queries so you can use them as a starting point.