Products Overview

2024-06-09 update

DataHub product lines:

• Markdown-based (Github-based) Wiki publishing (80%)
• Markdown-based PKM publishing
• Markdown-based data publishing
• Markdown-based guides

Terminology

This document is about the kind of stuff we make and sell. The following definitions make discussion clearer.

• Stacks 📚 and offers 🛒: stacks are stuff we "make", offers are stuff we "sell".
• Domains 🪣: categories for the kinds of stuff we make and sell. We'll distinguish three domains:
  • 🌀 Portals
  • 📦 DataHub (Next)
  • 🛎️ Data Services.
• Offers fall into two classes: products and services.
  • 🍎 Products are standardized in terms of features, pricing etc. Like an apple at a store.
  • ✂️ Services are bespoke and vary from client to client like a haircut.
• 🚩 Product when we use it is thus a product offer. Product is an overused term. Going forward, reserve product for this specific case at least internally.

What we make and offer in a nutshell: domains, stacks, offers

Three domains: DataHub, Portals and Data Services

Our work falls into three domains:

• DataHub: easy publishing for data and data-rich content. For power data users e.g. data engineers, data scientists etc.
• Portals: for data management solutions like portals, catalogs etc. For businesses, IGOs, NGOS etc.
• Data Services: like data engineering and data analysis and visualization

Offers: Three Products, Two Services

We offer three products, two of which are SaaS. All build on what we already have:

• Open Data Portal (SaaS): a hosted turnkey SaaS open data portal for governments, cities, NGOs, IGOs etc.
• DataHub "Next": easy publishing and sharing for data and data-rich content. For power data users e.g. data engineers, data scientists, data geeks etc.
• PortalJS: an open source framework for building data portals and data management systems

We offer the following services:

• Bespoke data portals both for open data portals and internal data management and discovery. This includes our CKAN development and CKAN hosting.
• Data Services such as data engineering and presentation

Two Stacks: Portals and DataHub

This work will be underpinned by two stacks:

• Portals Stack which is our framework for building data portals using PortalJS and CKAN (and more). It has a sub-stack:
  • Stack 1.1: Portals SaaS Stack which has a specific configuration of Portals Stack to provide a standardized SaaS data portal plus UI for signup and billing.
• DataHub (Next) Stack: the code for DataHub Next.

Branding

For marketing purposes, recommend presenting products using the DataHub brand and website for consistency and traffic e.g. DataHub Open Data Portal at datahub.io/open-data-portal/ and simple DataHub (Next) with datahub.io.

For services we recommend using the Datopian brand and website.

We emphasize that, of course, we can cross-present if that is useful for discovery and SEO.

Fuller version

Inbox - to process

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sprrkUeMRa3nrma4HvY_k-T0zGYttXJikqe9XPPmSiA/edit#gid=1871527939 - old product list from 2022