A central hub which lets orgs discover, scan, and classify all customer data no matter where it lives

Customer problems & Project overview

Our Customers have many internal systems that house their customer data, sometimes it's personal data. If there is a data breach and this data is not adequately secured, the company might be held legally liable❗


Also many of these companies are required by law to provide this personal data to their customers upon request- which they cannot adequately do if they don't know where or what it is.  


The outcome here is for companies to centralize all data across their systems, generate reports, and integrate them with other privacy workflows. In a nutshell, smarter data governance ✨

What did I learn?

We built an interface that handles 3 main problems:

  • A way to browse the folder structure of the database to see what's in it.

  • A way to see all the personal data our system could find in the database in one view

  • A way to train the machine learning model on how to find personal data specific to the company's needs.

Role

Product designer

Duration

3 months

Step 1 → Discovering data collected by your Company; usually stored in enterprise

database systems like Oracle, Salesforce, Redshift. These come in as Data silos

  • See connected data silos

  • Current actions running on the silos

  • All data silo states

You're first faced with the empty state, and the CTA prompts you

to manually add your Database. They show up in the Active tab 👇

These cards show all the possible states of a Data silo

In the configuration tab, Silo discovery can be turned on so Transcend periodically searches

for new silos. These become available in the inactive tab

Step 2 → Browse schema. Data silo browsing experience

✅ Case 1 - User is opening a completely scanned Data silo

✅ Case 2 - User is opening a Data silo still scanning

✅ Case 3 - The scanned Data silo is empty

  • See all the states the user can run into

  • Filtering the silos you see by 3 parameters

Browse silos filtering

Filter by:

  • Data silo type

  • Percentage classified

  • Owner

Step 3 → The training wizard

Now the scanning is complete, and all Datapoints are discovered, it's time to Train the machine learning model.

Transcend picks random columns, and wants you to confirm/deny the suggestions. How this works:

1) Looks for patterns in the silo, and displays that match a data category

2) Prompts you to confirm match or deny mismatch

Other states

✅ Case 1 - User attempts to Train a model while the Datapoints scan isn't complete

✅ Case 2 - User attempts to open a silo is discovered from Transcend's period scan

Step 4 - Datapoints

Final tab - Overview

This is the summary of the company data from all Data silos

How the solutions performed

Currently 2/3 of all Transcend customers use this brand new feature, which was introduced just last year.

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