✦TL;DR

Explore practical Lakehouse use cases across metadata quality, lineage, cost optimization, and glossary analysis.

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Use cases

Use the cards below to explore different use cases that you can drive using Lakehouse, including sample queries.

Core metadata

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Metadata completeness tracking

Govern

Make sure assets are enriched with descriptions, owners, tags, certifications, and custom metadata, so they're discoverable and useful for data analysts.

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Metadata export

Integrate

Export rich metadata for AI assistants, internal data marketplaces, and reverse sync back to Snowflake.

Lineage

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Lineage analysis

Explore

Run base lineage queries with common filters for impact analysis, root cause investigations, and domain-specific lineage views.

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Lineage full export

Reuse

Export an enriched view of lineage that joins start and related assets, and reuse it across multiple lineage-driven queries.

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Downstream impacted dashboards

Notify

Find all downstream BI dashboards impacted by changes to a source table or view so you can notify owners and plan testing.

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Lineage impact analysis

Assess

Identify all downstream consumers of a table or column before making schema changes, deprecations, or migrations.

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Lineage root cause analysis

Diagnose

Trace upstream from problematic dashboards or tables through transformations and source systems to pinpoint data issues.

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Lineage tags coverage across systems

Comply

Measure how governance tags such as PII and Confidential propagate across lineage and identify where coverage drops.

Business Graph

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Business Graph export and analysis

Document

Export glossary terms with glossaries, categories, and assigned assets to support documentation, compliance, and data governance review.

Usage analytics

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Track active users

Measure

Track daily, weekly, and monthly active users for a customer domain, compute the stickiness ratio, and review the full active user roster.

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Analyze feature adoption

Analyze

Measure connector usage, build feature adoption matrices, plot engagement quadrants, and identify the top events and pages for a domain.

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Assess engagement depth

Assess

Measure pageviews per user, actions per session, session duration, daily engagement distributions, and identify power users.

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Measure retention

Retain

Measure activation speed, identify churned and reactivated users, compute day-N retention curves, and build monthly cohort retention matrices.