Data Product Maturity Assessment: Measure Your Unit of Context

We talk a lot in this community about data products. What makes them good? What makes them fail? Why so many organisations have data, but so few have data products worth trusting.After the Modern Data Report 2026 highlighted the wide gap between data availability and real activation, one question kept coming back. How to reduce this gap so data can be used at scale for business?The term scale is super important here, given that it’s not just humans who need this activated and trustworthy data anymore, but machines. Thousands of them, running at multiple frontends across domains and teams.