dbt
dbt Labs is redefining how data teams work with SQL. Instead of waiting on complex ETL processes, dbt lets data analysts and data engineers build production-ready transformations directly in the warehouse, using code, version control, and CI/CD. This community-driven approach puts power back in the hands of practitioners while maintaining governance and scalability for enterprise use.
With a rapidly growing open-source community and an enterprise-grade cloud platform, dbt is at the heart of the modern data stack. It’s the go-to solution for teams who want faster analytics, higher quality data, and the confidence that comes from transparent, testable transformations.
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AnalyticsCreator
Accelerate your data journey with AnalyticsCreator—a metadata-driven data warehouse automation solution purpose-built for the Microsoft data ecosystem. AnalyticsCreator simplifies the design, development, and deployment of modern data architectures, including dimensional models, data marts, data vaults, or blended modeling approaches tailored to your business needs.
Seamlessly integrate with Microsoft SQL Server, Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric (including OneLake and SQL Endpoint Lakehouse environments), and Power BI. AnalyticsCreator automates ELT pipeline creation, data modeling, historization, and semantic layer generation—helping reduce tool sprawl and minimizing manual SQL coding.
Designed to support CI/CD pipelines, AnalyticsCreator connects easily with Azure DevOps and GitHub for version-controlled deployments across development, test, and production environments. This ensures faster, error-free releases while maintaining governance and control across your entire data engineering workflow.
Key features include automated documentation, end-to-end data lineage tracking, and adaptive schema evolution—enabling teams to manage change, reduce risk, and maintain auditability at scale. AnalyticsCreator empowers agile data engineering by enabling rapid prototyping and production-grade deployments for Microsoft-centric data initiatives.
By eliminating repetitive manual tasks and deployment risks, AnalyticsCreator allows your team to focus on delivering actionable business insights—accelerating time-to-value for your data products and analytics initiatives.
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Tokern
Tokern offers an open-source suite designed for data governance, specifically tailored for databases and data lakes. This user-friendly toolkit facilitates the collection, organization, and analysis of metadata from data lakes, allowing users to execute quick tasks via a command-line application or run it as a service for ongoing metadata collection. Users can delve into aspects like data lineage, access controls, and personally identifiable information (PII) datasets, utilizing reporting dashboards or Jupyter notebooks for programmatic analysis. As a comprehensive solution, Tokern aims to enhance your data's return on investment, ensure compliance with regulations such as HIPAA, CCPA, and GDPR, and safeguard sensitive information against insider threats seamlessly. It provides centralized management for metadata related to users, datasets, and jobs, which supports various other data governance functionalities. With the capability to track Column Level Data Lineage for platforms like Snowflake, AWS Redshift, and BigQuery, users can construct lineage from query histories or ETL scripts. Additionally, lineage exploration can be achieved through interactive graphs or programmatically via APIs or SDKs, offering a versatile approach to understanding data flow. Overall, Tokern empowers organizations to maintain robust data governance while navigating complex regulatory landscapes.
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MANTA
Manta is a unified data lineage platform that serves as the central hub of all enterprise data flows.
Manta can construct lineage from report definitions, custom SQL code, and ETL workflows. Lineage is analyzed based on actual code, and both direct and indirect flows can be visualized on the map. Data paths between files, report fields, database tables, and individual columns are displayed to users in an intuitive user interface, enabling teams to understand data flows in context.
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