Authorization Approved: Visa Scales Data Governance
As the global leader in digital payments, Visa processes massive volumes of sensitive data daily, making scalable data governance essential. However, their custom-built metadata platform became a resource-intensive bottleneck, demanding constant engineering attention and limiting the scalability needed for their vast, distributed data ecosystem.
This success story reveals how Visa overcame three core challenges—managing classifications at scale, capturing high-quality metadata, and reconciling datasets across multiple environments—by implementing DataHub.
You will learn how Visa:
- Used DataHub's API-first platform to create an "invisible catalog" that integrates seamlessly with existing tools (Kafka, Spark, multiple Hadoop clusters, etc.).
- Implemented a Business Attributes Model and Structured Properties to centralize crucial business information owned by data stewards.
- Replaced constant upkeep of bespoke infrastructure, freeing up engineering resources for strategic initiatives.
- Achieved scalable data governance, improved data quality, and enhanced AI capabilities with more reliable data.
See the strategy that helped a global payment network power seamless data governance at scale.