💪How Daana works

Imagine you’re trying to solve a massive jigsaw puzzle, but there’s no picture on the box to guide you, and the pieces come from different puzzles. That’s what dealing with raw data can feel like. Daana, however, gives you that picture and automates putting the pieces together.

The layered data warehouse pattern is a well-established and time-tested approach for constructing analytical systems. However, the development and maintenance of these systems can be challenging. This is where Daana steps in. Daana simplifies the process by creating the modeled data warehouse and the consumption layer for you, driven entirely by metadata and automated for efficiency and ease.

Metadata-Driven Transformations: The key to it all (pun intended)

Daana takes raw, system-oriented data and transforms it into business-ready building blocks. The secret? Metadata. Think of metadata as the blueprint that tells Daana how to make sense of the raw data, translating it from a technical format to one that matches how your business thinks about customers, sales, and products.

Instead of manually building pipelines and worrying about data integration, Daana automatically does it for you, mapping your data to the business definitions you’ve provided. And here’s the best part: Daana never moves your data out of your existing environment. Whether it’s in Big Query, Snowflake, or on-premise databases like MSSQL, the data stays put. Daana orchestrates everything within your infrastructure.

Atomizing Data Workflows

Daana doesn’t just tackle everything at once. It breaks data down into small, manageable units — think of each pipeline as a tiny assembly line that processes one or a few attributes at a time. This makes it easier to handle complexity, and more importantly, ensures the process doesn’t get more complicated as your data grows. Each piece of data is transformed, stored, and integrated seamlessly, regardless of changes in the source systems over time. You’re not locked into rigid structures that need constant adjustment. If you update the data mapping of an attribute, only that part of your data will get transformed, Daana keeps track of the rest.

Building Blocks for Analytics

After Daana works its magic, it reassembles these data units into accessible building blocks, perfect for your analytical tools. You can get the most typical consumption structures out of the box

• Kimball Modelled Stars with Facts and Dimensions

• Daily Snapshots that allows you to follow a particular object (like a user) and all events that are connected to it, including your specifically defined metrics.

• OBT (One Big Table) structures with all the richness of your data.

These aren’t just static tables; they’re dynamic, reusable datasets tailored for anything from standard reporting to machine learning. And because the whole system is metadata-driven, everything is transparent — you can trace the journey of a piece of data from the raw source to its final place in a report.

With Daana, your data isn’t just stored; it’s understood, organized, and ready for action.

Daana is like having an intelligent, automated system that takes the grunt work out of data warehousing. It handles the heavy lifting, leaving you to focus on the insights.