xGen aims to simplify and accelerate data-driven processes by providing a unified, intuitive platform that automates complex tasks and reduces the reliance on specialised technical skills. It provides end-to-end data management from acquisition to processing, modelling, governance and operations. It is designed to work with leading cloud platforms and empowers business users to operate autonomously, accelerates the data-to-insight cycle and provides actionable insights through streamlined workflows.
xGen’s IDE is designed to handle every stage of the data lifecycle, from data gathering to discovery, processing and visualisation. It brings these processes together in a single environment to streamline workflows.
Data Sync #
1. xGen simplifies data access and integration with 150+ pre-built connectors to various data sources and supports custom data sources.
2. It supports incremental data loading, which reduces processing times and minimizes resource usage.
The platform automates the extraction of ERP data, including support for SAP ECC, S/4, HANA, Infor and others.
3. xGen can automatically detect changes in source systems or schemas and propagate updates across the entire pipeline.
4. It enables combining raw data from hundreds of sources into a unified data lake or data warehouse.
5. xGen’s connect and sync simplifies data ingestion, preparation and delivery, making data business-ready faster and more cost-effectively.
Data Modeling #
1. xGen provides a drag-and-drop interface for designing data models, workflows and transformations, making it accessible to users of all skill levels.
2. It offers pre-built templates for systems like SAP and Infor, reducing setup time.
3. The platform allows users to perform data preparation tasks such as cleaning, validating and transforming raw data into actionable insights.
4. It supports dimensional modelling, allowing the creation of star schemas and enriching them with tables and fields.
5. xGen provides no-code/low-code transformations for joins, unions, aggregations and complex calculations and it automatically generates transformation code.
6. It allows users to create a semantic layer to translate technical jargon into business-friendly terms and create data marts for specific purposes.
Data Governance #
1. xGen embeds data governance directly into its core functionality, making it seamless, proactive and automated.
2. It provides comprehensive data lineage tracking, showing how data flows and transforms across systems and generates visual lineage diagrams.
3. The platform offers over 70 prebuilt data quality rules based on ISO 25012 standards that are automatically triggered during data ingestion and transformation.
4. It has a unified metadata framework that consolidates information about data assets into a single source of truth.
5. xGen automates metadata creation during ingestion and transformation and provides a centralised data catalogue.
6. Governance is built into every step, including ingestion, transformation, data observability and exception handling.
7. It provides features for tagging and classifying data to ensure secure access.
Data Operations #
1. xGen offers a graphical workflow design with a drag-and-drop interface for designing data pipelines and workflows and the ability to define dependencies between tasks.
2. It provides integrated data orchestration for managing data flows from ingestion to delivery and offers automated alerts for pipeline issues.
3. xGen includes a comprehensive operations dashboard for monitoring pipeline health and provides detailed logging to troubleshoot issues.
4. It provides proactive alerts and notifications for pipeline failures and anomalies with automated actions that can be triggered.
Reporting #
1. xGen is designed to work with popular business intelligence and data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau and Looker. This allows users to easily connect their prepared and modelled data in xGen to these tools for reporting and analysis.
2. xGen also offers an inbuilt, robust, integrated reporting tool designed to meet customers analytical needs and provide comprehensive insights.
3. xGen allows the creation of department- or purpose-specific data marts. These data marts focus on the specific data needed for reports and analyses, thus eliminating the need to sift through irrelevant data.
4. xGen ensures that fields, figures and metrics are consistent across all reports and dashboards. This is achieved by deploying semantic models from xGen to reporting tools.
5. By automating many of the technical aspects of data management, xGen allows users to focus on strategic questions rather than technical bottlenecks, thus facilitating faster insights.
