Data Mesh-Powered Data Marketplace for a Financial Services Enterprise

Executive Summary

A leading U.S. consumer financial services organization wanted to move from project-driven data delivery to a governed, product-oriented data operating model. Business teams faced challenges with fragmented data access, limited metadata context, slow discovery, and dependency on central IT teams for analytics delivery.

Factspan helped establish a Data Mesh-aligned Data Product Factory supported by Collibra Data Catalog, Collibra Marketplace, Databricks, and MicroStrategy. The engagement created a governed pilot data product for IT portfolio capacity metrics while defining the ownership, stewardship, metadata, access, and marketplace workflows needed to scale future data products..

Business Impact:

• Delivered 35+ HR data products
• Established a governed Data Product Factory foundation
• Created a pilot data product for IT capacity metrics
• Enabled marketplace-based data discovery and access
• Standardized ownership, stewardship, and RACI workflows
• Improved readiness for future Data Mesh adoption
• Built reusable playbooks for scaling additional data products