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  1. Getting Started with Secoda
  2. Secoda as a Viewer

Introduction guide

This Viewer guide provides new users with an overview of the tool

Last updated 1 year ago

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Secoda stands for Searchable Company Data. Your Secoda workspace is the single source of truth for your organization’s data.

Secoda is a useful tool for business users because it streamlines data management and enhances data governance within an organization. By automating data lineage and documentation, Secoda can help business users understand where their data comes from, how it has been transformed, and how it is being used. This can help improve the transparency and trustworthiness of the data, making it easier for business users to make informed decisions.

The data enablement features offered by Secoda, such as Secoda AI, the Search function, data dictionaries, and data lineage visualization, can help business users quickly find and access the data they need, improving productivity and efficiency. Additionally, inviting team members to Secoda allows business users to collaborate and share data assets more easily, improving collaboration and data management within the organization.

Outcomes

  • Faster time to value: With Secoda, teams have been able to reduce onboarding time from 2 months to a few days for new data members.

  • Flexibility to scale with growth, quickly: With Secoda, all customers can find the most used dashboards, the definition of a KPI and what data the marketing team is using.

  • Increase accuracy: With Secoda, teams can trust their data resources, tag sensitive information and ensure that all members have the ability to use trustworthy company data.

  • Faster decisions: With Secoda, all members can find the most used dashboards, the definition of a KPI and what data the marketing team is using.

Two customer case studies:

Resources for Getting Started

We’ve added some resources below that show you how you can use the different features of Secoda. Check out our introduction to Secoda video .

1. Collaborating within your workspace

Teams

This diagram shows the structure of Teams:

Asking questions

Notifications

Users can change their notification settings by going to Settings -> Notifications.

2. Searching within Secoda

Search is super important to Secoda users and we are constantly improving the functionality to provide the best experience. You can search for any resource in plain language, or by the table name and data source if you already know what you're looking for.

Secoda AI Assistant

Check out some examples of prompts to ask the AI below!

3. Creating a single source of truth

Every user across the organization should feel confident searching for and utilizing data in order to make business decisions. We consider Secoda to be your organization’s single source of truth where you can access all the relevant resources and metadata about those resources that you need in order to do your job effectively.

Catalog

Dictionary

Some common use cases for dictionary terms are defined metrics and company specific jargon. The overall goal of a dictionary is to get everyone in your organization speaking the same language.

Documents

We see customers using Documents in a similar way you might use other collaborative documentation tools, like Confluence and Notion.

Metrics

Collections

These folders can be organized however makes sense to your organization, but some use cases we see are by project or the big nouns in your company.

4. Customize your workspace

When you're added to Secoda, your workspace Admins should add you to your relevant Team, and you will be able to see all of the resources (Catalog, Dictionary, Documents and Questions) tied to that Team. You can check out all of your workspace's Teams and join Public ones by following .

Structure of Teams

With Secoda, you can find past questions, as well as pose new questions to the data team. Since Secoda is connected to your organization’s data, questions and answers can include links to relevant tables, queries, or even other questions that can provide more context. Read more about that .

You can change how often you receive these notifications, where you'll receive the notifications and which kinds of notifications you'll receive. Read more about notifications .

The greatly improves user experience when searching for resources. Once your workspace Admins have enabled it, you can find the AI Assistant on the lefthand panel under Search. You can also Ask AI right from the main Search and. This feature will be helpful for business users who might not know where to begin when looking at data.

Check out our other for filtering down your search results.

The is the home to all metadata for any Tables, Columns, Dashboards, Charts, Jobs and Events in Secoda. All catalog resources are accessible via Secoda’s Search, and can be referenced in other resources in your workspace.

The is where you can define terms that are relevant to your organization. All documented terms are accessible via Secoda’s Search, and can be referenced in other resources in your workspace. It’s an especially helpful space for newer employees getting acquainted with the company or their role.

in Secoda are robust, and allow you to combine text, queries, photos, and live charts in a notebook interface. Use this tab to find information about your organization’s data that is not directly tied to one specific table, term, or resource. Just like the Dictionary, all Documents can be found using Search, and can be directly linked in other resources in the workspace.

in Secoda can be used to define and visualize your organization's KPIs (key performance indicators). For example, you might have a Metric in Secoda for Average Order Value which updates regularly so that you can see how that value changes over time.

Using is a great way to organize your Team's resources. You can think of a Collection as a folder that hosts a group of resources (tables, dashboards, dictionary terms, documents, questions) pertaining to one particular subject.

See our doc on the.

Each user has their own individual Home page! Learn how you can to add personal notes and flag specific resources you often visit.

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