Unity Secure Start

Seamless Data Governance and Security with Unity Secure Start

Lovelytics understands the challenges organizations face in managing and securing their data while performing a Unity Catalog Upgrade. From integrating with existing business catalogs to ensuring systems remain operational during upgrades and needing to meet tight deadlines to unlock advanced use cases. A smooth and successful Unity Catalog migration is a top priority for many.

At Lovelytics, we tailor a custom approach to ensure the seamless migration of your existing tables, permissions, and a well-planned cutover strategy, empowering your team to efficiently manage data access and enhance compliance. With extensive experience across a variety of industries, we’ve expertly guided and implemented Unity Catalog migrations for numerous customers, each with their own unique circumstances. We’ve been there and done it many times, ensuring a smooth and successful transition tailored to your specific needs.

Innovation and Funding for Your Next Transformation

Embarking on a data journey post-migration, our team of Databricks experts is here to guide you through the next phase of innovation. With newfound capabilities such as Delta Sharing and Databricks Marketplace, we’ll help you unlock the true potential of your data, driving transformation through cutting-edge Generative AI features. As you explore the possibilities, we’ll also provide expert support on leveraging Unity Catalog for a robust Data Mesh framework. Together, we’ll navigate these advanced tools to help you accelerate change and achieve your goals.

With our strategic collaboration with Databricks, we can explore funding opportunities to help offset your investment, ensuring a future-ready data governance solution with ease.

Benefits

Accelerated Time to Value

Our Databricks experts can rapidly deploy Databricks Unity Catalog, allowing you to start realizing governance and security benefits faster than on your own. This quick start helps reduce project timelines and accelerates your path to better data compliance and control.

Integration with Your Organization

Our tailored plans look beyond the upgrade of the Hive Metastore and aligning Unity Catalog deployment with your specific business needs. Loveltyics is experienced in integration of Unity catalog with business catalogs such as Purview, Alation, and Collibra, as well as privacy and security tools such as Immuta and Privacera. This customized approach ensures your data governance strategy directly supports your organization’s needs.

Unlock Advanced Use Cases

Upgrading to Unity Catalog can unlock key use cases such as Delta Sharing for secure data in real-time, enabling faster collaboration across teams, partners, and platforms; Databricks Marketplace for seamless access to data, analytics, and AI; and the Data Mesh architectural framework to empower domain-specific teams with decentralized data ownership and management, fostering better governance and collaboration.

Enhanced Data Governance and Security

By centralizing data governance and implementing automated lineage and audit logs, your organization gains improved visibility and control, reducing compliance risks. This leads to a more secure and organized data environment, ensuring that the right data is accessed by the right people.

Cost Efficiency and Funding Support

Lovelytics works closely with Databricks to identify potential funding opportunities that offset the Unity Catalog investment, directly contributing to cost savings. Our expertise in building strong business justifications ensures you maximize available funding resources.

Features

Accelerated Enablement with Proven Frameworks

Lovelytics leverages Databricks UCX, a Databricks labs tool for upgrading specific Unity Catalog items, to streamline the upgrade process. With our custom tooling, we automate a significant portion of the code conversion including notebooks, Scala, SQL, and Python saving time compared to a manual conversion. Our team is also experienced in addressing complex Unity Catalog use cases, including DLT workflows. With proven frameworks and methodologies, fine-tuned through numerous successful upgrades, we ensure a smooth and efficient transition.

Infrastructure Excellence

Lovelytics employs tailored strategies for AWS, GCP, and Azure environments to securely centralize and manage your data assets. By clearly understanding the cloud infrastructure requirements from the start, our proven approach accelerates your path to a secure infrastructure buildout, avoiding common delays often faced during first-time implementations.

Tailored Implementation and Migration Strategy

Unlike generic implementations, our accelerator offers a customized approach, including a detailed cutover plan designed specifically for your organization’s needs. This approach ensures compliance and a seamless transition with pre-existing Data Governance, Security, and Privacy tooling with minimal disruption to ongoing operations, making the upgrade process smoother and more efficient.

Comprehensive Governance Guide & Administration

We provide a bespoke Unity Catalog Administration Guide and Matrix that details best practices for managing your Unity Catalog environment. This resource equips your team with the knowledge needed to maintain robust governance standards, optimize permissions, and manage user roles effectively.

Integrated Funding and Business Justification Support

Lovelytics partners with Databricks to explore potential funding opportunities specifically for Unity Catalog implementations. We provide guidance on securing funding approval through expertly crafted business justifications, reducing your financial barriers to upgrading data governance infrastructure.

Large-Scale Databricks Unity Catalog Implementation

Customer: $40B Medical Device Company

Challenge:

To meet rigorous compliance requirements for better metastore management, data governance, and audit logging processes, the customer required Unity Catalog to be implemented on two separate Databricks tenants.

Solution

Lovelytics upgraded two large Databricks deployments with multi-regional architecture to leverage Unity Catalog. We migrated all workspaces, upgraded all permissions, adopted brand new features for managing streaming workloads, and advised the customer on how to manage new process flows with Unity Catalog.

Impact

Both clients and all workloads were migrated with zero-impact to up-time or service. The customer also achieved a higher level of data governance on all of their analytic workloads, including streaming data workloads.

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Unity Secure Start

Seamless Data Governance and Security with Unity Secure Start

Innovation and Funding for Your Next Transformation

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