datannur is also intended for professionals who support organizations with the management, structuring, or compliance of their data: governance consultants, GDPR experts, integrators, IT service providers. The tool was designed to meet a concrete, on-the-ground need: quickly produce a structured assessment, then leave the client with a catalog they can continue to maintain over time.
In many engagements, partners still work with spreadsheets, scattered documents, or internal scripts. These approaches make it possible to produce a deliverable, but they remain difficult to reuse from one engagement to another, hard to hand over to the client, and rarely sufficient to establish a true governance foundation.
datannur offers a different approach. The partner has a lightweight, open-source tool that can be used immediately to scan the client’s data, structure metadata, and produce a catalog. This provides a reusable base over time, from one engagement to the next. The deliverable is no longer just an engagement document: it can become a living tool.
datannur can be used from the very first phases of an engagement: audit, diagnosis, mapping, GDPR support, or data organization. The partner relies on the catalog to explore the client’s sources, document their structure, produce an assessment, and make the information easier to understand.
At the end of the engagement, the tool can be handed over to the client as an integral part of the deliverable. The catalog remains usable, accessible, and reusable without heavy infrastructure or a license to negotiate. The partner therefore leaves not only a final document, but a lasting entry point that the client can continue to maintain.
Handing over the catalog to the client is the key element of the model. Once the engagement is complete, the client already has a concrete, immediately useful tool that can remain in place without technical or commercial friction. If usage is confirmed, this catalog can gradually become the organization’s governance reference.
This shift naturally opens the door to additional interventions: updating the catalog, extending it to other scopes, structuring roles, improving metadata quality, or broader support on governance. The partner thus turns a one-off engagement into a lasting relationship, without having to reintroduce a new tool.
In this model, the partner and the publisher do not play the same role. The partner maintains the business relationship with the client: scoping, support, interpretation, and engagement delivery. The publisher, for its part, ensures product continuity through support, updates, and the evolution of the tool.
This distribution avoids any unnecessary competition between business support and product support. On the contrary, it creates an alignment of interests: the client keeps a tool they control, the partner extends their on-the-ground relationship, and the publisher guarantees product continuity over time. This model of complementarity between publisher and partners is already well established in open source, as seen in particular around solutions such as Moodle.
In this approach, datannur collaborates in particular with idon, led by Andreas Lang. idon supports public administrations in leveraging their data.
Do you support organizations with their data and want to use datannur in your engagements? Contact us to discuss it.