To understand what is the biGENIUS-X Data Marketplace, let's use the following picture:
The biGENIUS-X Data Marketplace is the platform for managing and exchanging products within your Organization.
A product can be a Data Product or a Source System.
For more details, please refer to Understand the Data Marketplace overview.
Data Product
A Data Product is a tiny data solution or warehouse represented by exported Linked Project files.
Finally, it is a biGENIUS-X Project.
It has input and output ports.
Each Data Product is owned by a biGENIUS-X user. This user will manage the authorizations to use the Data Product.
For more details, please refer to Understand the data product overview.
Output port
An output port specifies the format for exposing data from a Data Product, which Projects can access.
It is composed of data contracts.
A data contract represents a version of a linked project export file.
Input port
An input port represents the usage of a data product, which can be accessed by importing Linked Projects from the Data Marketplace rather than from individual files.
Source System
A Source System is composed of data contracts.
A data contract represents a version of a discovery file.
For more details, please refer to Understand the Source System product overview.