We are excited to share highlights from our recent Validatar 2025.1 release party webinar, where we announced one of our most exciting and asked for features ever: trust and quality scores for your data!
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Why Trust Scores Matter
When every decision is urgent and dashboards are crowded, Validatar Trust Scores create a clean signal: what data you can rely on right now.
For business teams, that means fewer debates and faster action—reports, regulatory filings, quarterly reviews, and AI initiatives move forward with evidence-backed confidence instead of guesswork. Trust becomes visible and consistent, and leaders can certify inputs behind critical decisions and focus on outcomes, not diagnostics.
For data teams, Validatar Trust Scores turn quality into an operational metric they can manage, trend, and defend. Instead of firefighting ad hoc issues, teams get clear targets, shared thresholds, and prioritized backlogs aligned to business impact. The redesigned catalog and test views make status and ownership obvious, so conversations shift from “is this accurate?” to “what’s the next most meaningful fix?”
In practice, this clarity delivers value in three key ways:
- A shared definition of “good enough” that aligns executives, analysts, and engineers
- Fewer escalations thanks to visible status, ownership, and trends
- Better prioritization—effort goes to the highest‑impact data assets first
New in Validatar 2025.1
This release is all about making trust visible and actionably simple. We’ve centered the Validatar data catalog on trust and quality scores while simplifying test visibility, so issues move from “noticed” to “resolved” faster. A whole host of smaller features and improvements round out the release.
Key features:
- Trust Scores: A clear, trended indicator of trust for tables, files, and reports across your catalog
- Streamlined Data Catalog: A cleaner, context‑rich view that highlights what meets thresholds and what needs attention
- Streamlined Test Grid + KPIs: Simple, clickable status and filters to accelerate triage and resolution
- Other improvements: a large set of user-requested improvements and new features to streamline the user experience
Trust Scores
Validatar Trust Scores turn data quality into a clear, actionable signal your whole organization can leverage. Instead of debating “is this dataset reliable?”, business leaders see an immediate indicator of trust in the catalog, while data teams get a practical, trended metric to guide priorities and prove progress.
The result: faster, safer decisions and fewer escalations.
With Validatar’s Data Trust Scores you can:
- See trust at a glance across the data catalog: Trust Scores appear on tables, files, and reports—so stakeholders quickly identify what’s “green” for use in reports, regulatory filings, and AI, and what needs attention.
- Track improvement over time: Scores trend daily, helping business teams build confidence as reliability improves and giving data teams a defensible way to show impact in governance and ops reviews.
- Focus on what matters: Scores reflect both test outcomes and meaningful coverage, steering limited engineering time toward high‑impact assets that unblock business outcomes.
- Align on thresholds: Set clear targets for critical data so everyone—from executives to engineers—shares a definition of “good enough” and can certify trusted sources without deep technical dives.
Streamlined Data Catalog
With Trust Scores front and center, Validatar’s data catalog now flows around what users need most: clarity, context, and quick action. Business teams can spot reliable assets at a glance, while data teams get richer, in‑place tools to understand and improve what’s slipping—without leaving the page.
Key data catalog improvements in Validatar 2025.1 include:
- Edit smarter: Inline metadata editing with certified fields and value history reduces back‑and‑forth and speeds approvals.
- Personalize your lens: Add the columns you care about (including custom fields), save views, and pick up right where you left off.
- Export with context: One‑click exports capture your filtered, personalized view for reviews and audits.
- Preview before you test: Use Table Preview to run quick peeks or macros—validate data fast without creating a test first.
- Focus on what matters: Trust‑aware filters and KPIs highlight assets below threshold or trending down, so owners can act quickly.
Streamlined Test Grid + KPIs
Triage shouldn’t require detective work. The refreshed test grid brings status, severity, and ownership into one view, so teams can move from “something’s wrong” to “it’s fixed” in a single pass. Clear KPIs highlight where risk is concentrated, intuitive filters narrow the focus, and exports make it simple to share the plan of attack in standups and reviews.
The updated test grid and KPIs will help users:
- See risk at a glance: Topline KPIs for passing, failing, and erroring tests—plus “newly failing” to spot fresh regressions.
- Focus by impact: Severity and data-quality-dimension views surface the issues that matter most first.
- Navigate faster: Clickable KPIs auto-filter the grid; “expand all folders” flattens structure so full paths and contexts are visible immediately.
- Act and share: Add useful columns (e.g., control/target sources), sort and filter inline, then export the filtered view for audit trails and handoffs.
Small Upgrades Unlock Big Momentum
This set of quality‑of‑life enhancements shortens setup, reduces context switching, and makes repeatable work truly repeatable—so teams spend more time improving trust and less time wrestling with plumbing.
These include:
- Python “Test Connection”: Validate Python data source scripts and dependencies upfront to avoid run‑time surprises.
- Multi‑source metadata: Bring in multiple metadata feeds per data source (e.g., catalog, lineage, pipeline tools) for richer, automated context.
- Expanded APIs: Programmatically export/import, schedule and download reports, and manage custom fields to integrate with your workflows.
- Template power‑ups: Use project‑level custom fields as variables in template tests to port suites across projects with minimal rework.
Key Takeaways
If data is the product, trust is the guarantee.
With Validatar 2025.1, trust becomes visible, measurable, and actionable—so business and data teams can move faster together.
- Trust is now a first‑class signal: Clear Data Trust Scores align leaders, analysts, and engineers on what’s ready for use—and what isn’t
- Validatar’s data catalog works the way you do: Trust‑aware views, inline metadata editing, previews, and exports keep context and action in one place
- Triage is simpler and faster: Streamlined test KPIs and filters cut through noise so teams fix the highest‑impact issues first
Getting Started with Validatar 2025.2?
Cloud customers: These features rolled out during our maintenance window on March 27, 10-12 PM CST.
Server customers: Installation packages are available as of April 3, 2025.
Think of this as adding a compass, not a checklist.
A few setup moves make trust visible and actionable across your catalog.
- Identify critical assets: Tag your highest‑impact tables, files, and reports
- Make trust visible: Enable Trust Scores and align on target thresholds in governance
- Close the loop: Use catalog and test KPIs in weekly ops/governance reviews to track progress
Ready to transform your data quality journey?
Contact us at sales@validatar.com to see these features in action, or reach out to support@validatar.com if you're an existing customer ready to leverage these new capabilities.
Watch the Validatar 2025.1 Release webinar below: