Frequently asked questions
Product questions about Duodata. For seats, capacity and billing, see the Licensing FAQ.
What is Duodata?
Duodata is a business-approved metrics layer and Metrics Ontology. Business and data teams agree on what a metric means in Duodata, then deploy that definition into AI assistants, Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric and BI tools.
What problem does Duodata solve?
The same KPI means different things in different dashboards, platforms and AI tools. Duodata gives every tool one approved definition, so teams stop reconciling numbers in meetings and AI stops inventing metric logic.
Is Duodata a semantic layer?
No. Duodata models the metric estate apart from the data model, links each metric deterministically to its implementation, and deploys the result into Snowflake Semantic Views, Databricks Metric Views and Microsoft Fabric semantic models.
Is Duodata a data catalog or a data governance tool?
No. Data governance and catalogs control the data: access, quality and lineage between tables. Duodata governs what AI agents mean when they answer: which approved metric, variant and implementation they use. It complements your catalog and data governance.
How does Duodata help AI assistants give correct answers?
The AI Connector serves approved metric definitions and retrieval instructions to Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, MCP clients and custom agents. The assistant uses the approved logic instead of guessing which table counts.
Which platforms does Duodata work with?
Snowflake (Semantic Views, Cortex), Databricks (Metric Views in Unity Catalog, Genie), Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, dbt / MetricFlow, and other warehouses such as BigQuery and Redshift through the Duodata Agent.
Does Duodata lock metrics into a proprietary format?
No. Definitions are stored as Apache Ossie / MetricFlow YAML in Git, so they stay portable across warehouses, BI tools and AI agents.
Who uses Duodata?
Business owners approve definitions, Metric Stewards create and maintain them, and data teams map them to implementations. Viewers are unlimited and free, and owners can be assigned without logging in.
How long does it take to get started?
The Metrics Ontology Bootcamp is a six-week guided activation that puts 20 to 25 of the most-disputed metrics live in production. There is also a free plan.
Where does Duodata run, and is my data safe?
The control plane runs in Duodata. The Duodata Agent runs in your own Snowflake account or warehouse, or as a managed service. See the Security and Trust pages for controls, SSO and RBAC.
What does Duodata cost?
Free ($0, one Metric Steward), Teams ($80 per Metric Steward per month, billed annually) and Enterprise (from $50,000 per year). Details are on the Pricing page.