With the explosion in data that we are all experiencing, the need to manage and govern our business’ critical data assets has grown more critical, but also made it harder. Databricks’ Unity Catalog offers a unified data governance offering to accelerate and simplify metadata management for your entire data estate.

We will explore the challenges of data governance that Unity Catalog addresses. We will discuss how it can help alleviate data silos throughout your enterprise. How it simplifies a single pane of glass view of data lineage as it winds it through your data lakes and warehouses. How to use Delta Sharing to help create data products and more easily share your analytics with external users and customers, while still maintaining tight controls. What Lakehouse Federation can enable by bringing other data systems into Unity Catalog, including Synapse, Snowflake, and Redshift. Lastly, with the comprehensive auditing you can see who is using what data and how, ensuring compliance with internal and external control requirements and giving you insight into how your enterprise uses its data and where there are opportunities to expand.