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I work for a smaller company with around 100 people. As opposed to giving people direct access to our new Data Warehouse, we are looking at options to clean up and share data via Certified Datasets managed by the BI Team. We might give them access to the EDW at some point in the future, but we feel like this might be a better interim step.
I have been scouring the internet looking for any practical advice on the best way to implement Certified Datasets. Still, most of the articles I find were created around the time this feature was in Preview. I am curious to hear from anyone else who has used Certified Datasets as part of a Self-Service BI implementation.
An example of something I have been thinking about that I haven't seen covered anywhere is, "How do users figure out what is in the datasets?" This makes me think I will need to implement a data catalog at the same time I am implementing the Certified Datasets.
Any downsides? Unexpected challenges? Unexpected surprises (good or bad)?
Hi @Anonymous ,
What are these certified datasets ultimately used for? What information do you want your end users to have access to? Does it need to display different information according to user level? Do end user need to create any report based on these dataset?
Best Regards
Rena
Community Support Team _ Rena Ruan
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