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Working with Higher Education Data is Messy
Understanding often resides in people’s heads, and data definitions are scattered across disconnected systems. Discovering data lineage typically involves sifting through SQL and ETL.
Plaid Govern Changes That
Plaid Govern helps your institution:
Maintain a Single Source of Truth
Seamlessly Integrate All Your Data Sources
Understand Connections Across Data Systems
Enhance Knowledge Management
Ensure Regulatory Compliance
Mitigate Risks of Staff Changes
Get the whole picture. This is an example of data lineage, from the perspective of the CourseSection table (inner, right). It shows the source (left) being banner base tables and the destination (right) being other workflows and a database view.
Helping Data Governance in Higher Education
Plaid Govern is a cloud-based metadata platform designed for higher education institutions to better understand and manage their data. It offers capabilities such as dataset search and discovery, data lineage visualization, and governance roles.
The platform supports comprehensive documentation, business glossaries, and user access control.
By centralizing data definitions and glossaries and providing transparent data lineage, Plaid Govern enhances data governance, supports compliance, and minimizes the impact of changes. Its flexible integration allows connection to various campus and vendor systems, with options for custom development.
All plans include
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Search
Interactive search helps you find specific dashboards, tables, fields, entities, workflows, ETL jobs, models, or that needle in the haystack.
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Lineage
Interactive lineage of upstream and downstream impacts increases understanding and transparency of how data moves between systems.
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Impact Analysis
Understand how changes in one place impact others. Prevent breaking other data sources, dashboards. Plan intentionally for changes.
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Metadata Ingestion
Set up integrations using an intuitive interface, or the command line utility.
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Hosting & Security
Plaid Analytics is a trusted name in higher education. We take care of hosting and security to give you peace of mind
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Notifications
In-App Notifications help keep you in the loop for data ingestion, updates, and any potential errors.
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On-Demand Training
Plaid Analytics has a robust suite of higher education-focused training available for you and your team.
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Single Sign On
We know you're sick of remembering yet another password. That's why we integrate with your institution's single sign on provider.
Plaid Analytics works with leading colleges and universities from across North America.
Selected clients of Plaid Analytics
Point, Click, Integrate
Seamlessly integrate your entire data stack using an intuitive interface.
Several data sources can be integrated directly using the visual interface. Additional data sources are available through the command line interface.
In addition to the sources below, Plaid Analytics has built custom connectors for:
- Excel
- FME, by Safe Software
Airflow
Dagster
OpenLineage
Spark
Great Expectations
Protobuf Schemas
Athena
Azure AD
BigQuery
Business Glossary
ClickHouse
CockroachDB
CSV Enricher
Databricks
DataHub
DataHubGc
dbt
Delta Lake
Demo Data
Druid
DynamoDB
Elasticsearch
Feast
File Based Lineage
Fivetran
Glue
Google Cloud Storage
Hive
Hive Metastore
Iceberg
JSON Schemas
Kafka
Kafka Connect
LDAP
Looker
MariaDB
Metabase
Metadata File
Microsoft SQL Server
MLflow
Mode
MongoDB
MySQL
NiFi
Okta
OpenAPI
Oracle
Postgres
PowerBI
Presto
Pulsar
Qlik Sense
Redash
Redshift
S3 / Local Files
SageMaker
Salesforce
SAP HANA
Sigma
Slack
Snowflake
SQL Queries
SQLAlchemy
Superset
Tableau
Teradata
Trino
Vertica
Book a meeting to learn more and get started
We'd love to chat about your data governance goals and see how we can support your success.
Plans and pricing
Plaid Govern pricing tiers are show below.
A 10% discount is available for annual purchases.
Starter
$1,999/month
Features:
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Search
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Lineage
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Impact Analysis
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Metadata Ingestion (Manual and Automated)
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Connect to cloud and campus-hosted data sources
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Notifications (In-App)
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Single Sign On
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Upgrades (2x per year)
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Hosting
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Security
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On-Demand Training
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Up to 10 Users
Essentials
$2,599/month
Features:
Everything in Starter, plus:
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Custom Connectors: MS Excel and Safe Software FME.
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Quarterly Live Training Session
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Up to 20 Users
Premium
$3,599/month
Features:
Everything in Essentials, plus:
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Leverage Plaid's Expertise to Craft Data Definitions
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Up to 100 Users
Enterprise
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Features:
Everything in Premium, plus:
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VPN / VPC private connections
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Monthly Live Training
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Unlimited Users
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Frequently asked questions
How long does Plaid Govern take to deploy and deliver benefits?
Plaid Govern delivers same-day deployment, providing faster and more scalable metadata management through an easy-to-use cloud-based platform offering centralized collaboration and governance functionality.
How can Plaid Govern reduce costs and increase efficiency?
Plaid Govern assists with reducing costs by generating automated data ingestion and documentation, saving time. Plaid’s Data Governance also reduces risk by reducing dependency on key staff and enabling the ability to implement data governance roles and user access. Accurate documentation and understanding of lineage provides greater clarity around data, lineage, ownership, and usage of data across campus systems.
What is the Plaid Govern managed service?
Plaid offers Govern as a managed service - meaning we take care of hosting, upgrades, security, sign on, and ensuring you can connect to your data systems. Our tool is based on the open source DataHub, which project provides a standard Apache license, the terms of which are incorporated into your service agreement with Plaid upon subscription.
Why is Plaid Govern more effective than implementing an open-source tool ourselves?
Plaid takes care of ensuring single-sign-on, updates, security, and hosting. Additionally, Plaid has experience in developing custom scripts and integrations for platforms not yet made available in the open source world. Plaid has also designed custom features built exclusively for our higher education customers.
How Does Plaid Govern Support Compliance
We take data privacy seriously.
Our guiding principles:
- Only metadata, not data, is brought in. Only data about your data is ingested, no system data is ever brought in to Plaid Govern.
- We host Plaid Govern on Amazon Web Services, the world’s leading cloud provider. This allows us to provide substantial security around your metadata, ensuring that your staff can see what they need to know, and blocking unauthorized access.
- You choose where your data lives. In this context, AWS has numerous data centres throughout the world. You choose which one your data resides in.