Treating data as a product means managing data with the same care and strategy as a traditional product. It involves packaging, maintaining, and delivering high-quality data that serves a specific purpose or audience. This approach improves data reliability and makes it easier to monetize or use for strategic decision-making.

jobvalley enhanced data visibility by implementing Sifflet’s observability platform, which included a powerful data catalog. This centralized hub made it easier for teams to discover and access the data they needed, fostering better collaboration and transparency across departments.

Data observability is the ability to monitor, understand, and troubleshoot data systems using real-time metrics and contextual insights. It's important because it helps teams detect and resolve issues quickly, ensuring data reliability and reducing the risk of bad data impacting business decisions.

Reverse ETL automates the syncing of data from your warehouse to business apps, helping reduce the number of manual data requests across teams. This improves data reliability by ensuring consistent, up-to-date information is available where it’s needed most, while also supporting SLA compliance and data automation efforts.

Full Data Stack Observability gives you end-to-end visibility into your data pipeline, from ingestion to consumption. It enables real-time anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and proactive alerts, helping you catch and resolve issues before they affect your dashboards or reports. It's a game-changer for organizations looking to scale data quality efforts efficiently.

Sifflet stands out as a metadata control plane that connects technical reliability with business context. Unlike point solutions, it offers AI-native automation, full data lineage tracking, and cross-functional accessibility, making it ideal for organizations that need to scale trust in their data across teams.

Data freshness refers to how current your data is relative to the real-world events it's meant to represent. In data observability, it's one of the most critical metrics because even accurate data can lead to poor decisions if it's outdated. Whether you're monitoring financial trades or patient records, stale data can have serious business consequences.

Modern observability tools offer powerful features like data lineage tracking, audit logging, and schema registry integration. These capabilities help organizations improve data governance by providing transparency, enforcing data contracts, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations like GDPR.