Decaf Data gives your team a structured, accessible place to catalogue your data assets, define your terms, establish ownership, and track governance progress across your organisation.
Everything in the platform is built around a set of core objects. Each object type has its own structure, its own ownership model, and its own connections to the rest of the catalogue.
Catalogue your business reports with ownership, delivery status, and trusted report designation. Know what reports exist and who is accountable for them.
Define what your data means in plain language. Mark critical data elements, capture business definitions, and connect terms to the assets that use them.
Catalogue your databases, files, systems, and screens. Document where data lives and how it flows across your organisation.
Define individual fields and columns, link them to glossary terms, and designate authoritative sources for critical data across your landscape.
Catalogue the data products your organisation produces and consumes, with ownership, quality indicators, and connections to underlying assets.
Organise your data landscape into business domains. Assign stewards and owners, track domain-level coverage, and see where governance is strong or still developing.
Record the people who own, steward, and use your data. Assign roles at both domain and object level to make accountability clear and visible.
The platform's object model is designed to grow. Additional types are added as the product evolves and client needs develop.
All seven object types live in a single connected catalogue. Every relationship between them is tracked and navigable.
Decaf Data is built around the governance activities that organisations actually need to carry out. These are some of the most common.
Capture plain-language definitions for the terms that matter most to your organisation. Connect terms to the data assets and elements that use them, so definitions are never floating free of the data they describe. Mark critical terms and track how consistently they are applied.
Catalogue your business reports with ownership, delivery status, and governance coverage. Designate reports as trusted when they meet your governance standards. Business users stop asking which version is the right one because the answer is recorded in the catalogue.
Identify the data elements that underpin your most important decisions and reports. Mark them as critical, designate authoritative sources, and track the governance coverage that surrounds them. CDEs are visible across the catalogue and connected to the terms and assets that depend on them.
Data stewards, domain owners, and business analysts all need something they can work with without a technical background. Every screen in the platform is built around clarity and action.
Monthly programme report tracking capital works project status, budget utilisation, and milestone progress across the infrastructure portfolio. Distributed to the Infrastructure Committee and Executive Leadership team. Refreshed monthly from the project management system.
Different roles use the platform differently. The design reflects that, giving each person a view of the catalogue that is relevant to what they are responsible for.
Stewards maintain the definitions, descriptions, and connections for the objects in their domain. The platform makes it easy to see what is complete, what needs attention, and what has changed recently.
Domain owners see their coverage at a glance. Which assets are governed, which terms are defined, and where the gaps are. Progress is visible without needing to dig into individual records.
The programme dashboard shows governance coverage across the whole organisation, by domain and by object type. Governance progress becomes something measurable and reportable, not just described.
Organisations that want to use AI responsibly need to understand their data before they can trust it to inform decisions. That means knowing what data exists, what it means, who is accountable for it, and how well it is governed.
The Decaf Data catalogue gives you a clear picture of your governance coverage across every domain, object type, and data element. As your programme matures, you build the documented, accountable, well-defined data landscape that responsible AI use depends on. It is not a separate AI readiness programme. It is a natural outcome of doing governance well.
Get in touch and we will walk you through the platform as part of a conversation about your governance programme and what it would look like for an organisation like yours.
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