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Understanding data capabilities¶

Data capabilities define the fundamental conceptual building blocks used in many data-related. The articles in this section describe the concepts and characteristics behind each data capability, and they provide specific implementations using various Azure services, programming languages and usage.

The Data Playbook uses capability maps to organize different capabilities as shown below:

Data Consumption
Data Consumption

Data Observability

Data Observability

Data Governance

Data Governance
Data System Common Components/Capabilities
Data System Common Components/Capabilities
Data Life Cycle Stages
Data Life Cycle Stages
Data Processing
Data Processing
Data Ingestion
Data Ingestion

DevOps for Data

DevOps for Data

Data Quality

Data Quality

Data Protection and Security

Data Protection and Security

Data Orchestration

Data Orchestration

Data Modeling

Data Modeling
Data Consumers
Data Consu...

Data Sources

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Data lifecycle Stages grouping shows the different stages of data while moving from its origin to the consumption layer. The end-to-end flow is supported by a set of capabilities grouped under Data System Common Components/Capabilities.