How to Use Latttice Without Replacing Your Existing Stack
Industrialize trusted data products and active governance on top of the platform you already have.
Replatforming is slow, expensive and rarely improves decisions. Latttice gives you the data-product and active-governance layer without rebuilding the stack underneath.
- · Platform replacement projects take years and rarely change outcomes.
- · Existing tools have value that should not be discarded.
- · Owners need a business surface, not a new engineering environment.
- Latttice runs alongside the existing stack.
- Existing catalog and policy work is exposed as active signals.
- Business owners get the surface they need without engineering work.
- Stage 1
Extend
Extend, do not replace.
What to doIdentify the gap Latttice fills.
Where it gets stuckVendor pressure to replatform.
How Latttice helpsLatttice is designed to extend.
- Stage 2
Expose
Expose existing catalog and policy work as signals.
What to doConnect existing tools to Latttice.
Where it gets stuckDisconnected tooling.
How Latttice helpsLatttice consumes existing catalog and policy.
- Stage 3
Equip
Equip owners with the business surface they need.
What to doStand up the operating surface for the first owners.
Where it gets stuckOwners pushed back into engineering tools.
How Latttice helpsLatttice provides the business surface.
- · Inventory the existing stack and the gaps Latttice will fill.
- · Stand up Latttice alongside the existing stack.
- · Onboard the first wave of products and owners.
- · Domains where current tooling cannot give business owners a real surface.
- · Starting with a replatform.
- · Ignoring existing catalog investment.
- · Treating Latttice as a replacement.
- · Failing to connect existing catalog and policy.
- · Underestimating the change management for business owners.
We map Latttice to your existing stack, expose catalog and policy assets as active signals, and stand up the operating surface for business owners.
| Stage | Challenge | Capability | Business outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discover | Teams cannot find or trust the data behind the existing stack. | Latttice publishes data products with business meaning, ownership and trust signals attached. | Faster reuse, less duplication, fewer escalations. |
| Build | Building the existing stack repeatably without replatforming. | Latttice industrializes data product build on top of the existing stack. | Lower cost to build and operate, faster time to value. |
| Govern | Governance lags behind delivery. | Latttice attaches quality, lineage, ownership and policy signals to every data product. | Active governance without a manual review bottleneck. |
| Operate | Ownership defaults to IT after launch. | Latttice gives business owners the controls they need to take real accountability. | Sustained business ownership and trust over time. |
- Latttice runs alongside the existing platform.
- Existing catalog and policy work is exposed as signals.
- Business owners have the surface they need.
Where to go next in the Decision-Driven Executive Series
- 01Related executive frameworkData Product Operating Model
How to operate data products at scale without rebuilding your platform.
- 02Related productLatttice
- 03Watch a demoSee Latttice and Lenz in action
A guided walkthrough of trusted data products and governed AI.
- 04Contact Data TilesTalk to Data Tiles
Discuss your decision-driven roadmap with our team.
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