Creating a data product

Last updated: May 30, 2025

There are several ways to create and publish a data product. Based on the consumer's request, you can choose how to create the data product. Then you can choose a suitable delivery method, business domain, access level, and other elements for the data product.

To learn about best practices for handling sensitive data and data protection rules, see Best practices for creating a data product.

Required roles to complete this task: Collaborator role: Editor

Task 1: Selecting a creation method

Select a suitable method to create your data product and complete the unique steps for each method.

The following table lists the methods to create a data product:

Task 2: Completing your data product

After you create a data product draft according to your chosen method, complete the following fields before publishing your data product.

Click Primary business domain and assign a primary business domain to the data product. Business domains provide a taxonomy to help consumers find the data product that they need.
Edit Access level and indicate whether the data product is Available to everyone or Requires approval.

For data products that require approval, consumers provide a business justification when they subscribe. Approvers approve or reject access requests based on this justification. You select the approvers from your community members. A task is sent to each approver's Task inbox. Approvers claim the task to approve or reject the subscription. Delivery starts after the subscription is approved.

For data products that require approval, you have a few options:

Designate approvers for the subscription or preapprove subscribers:
- Designate approvers: You designate the approvers from your community members. When a subscription is requested, a task is sent to each approver's Task inbox. Approvers claim the task to approve or reject the subscription based on the business justification provided by the subscriber. Delivery starts after the subscription is approved. If not approved, the consumer can subscribe again with a different justification.
- Preapprove subscribers: You designate individual users or user groups as preapproved subscribers for the data product. All members of a user group are preapproved. The preapproved list of users doesn't generate a workflow task and doesn't require a designated approver. Users on the preapproved list automatically receive delivery of the data product.

For Data product contents, add the Key features and Origin of your data product. You can also add more items or preview a visualization. Enter the values for custom properties. Groups of custom properties appear only if the Data Product Hub administrator created them for Data product item assets. You can edit the custom properties as a group or individually. The system-provided properties are not editable.
Choose one or more Delivery methods for the data product. Available delivery methods are determined by the associated data source connection. For more information on delivery methods and connectors, see Working with delivery methods and Delivery methods for connectors.
The Additional information tab displays custom properties created by the Data Product Hub administrator for Data product assets. Select a custom group and edit the values of the custom properties that are in a custom group. To edit specific properties in each group, you can also search by property name.
Provide Recommended usage information for your data product and describe any previous business needs that your data product addressed. This text appears on the data product tile and helps consumers locate the data product through search.
For Data contract, enter a URL or upload a PDF file. All data products must have a data contract that outlines the terms and conditions for using that data product. The URL for a data contract must be publicly accessible.

Task 3: Publishing your data product

Only published data products are available to your Data Product Hub community. Review your draft carefully because you cannot edit the contents of the data product after publishing.