INTERWORKS EUROPE LTD

Matillion

Harness the power of the cloud with Matillion, purpose-built to work with leading cloud data warehouse environments. Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Synapse etc. From extracting and loading your data to performing powerful data transformations, Matillion cloud ETL solutions offer simplicity, speed, scale, and savings compared to legacy ETL tools.

Features

  • Code free drag & drop interface
  • Self-service data workflow pattern
  • Seamlessly connect to multiple sources, including legacy, via pre-built APIs
  • Advanced predictive, prescriptive, statistical & geospatial analytics
  • Automation of repeatable workflows with scheduling
  • Clear annotated workflows - transparent and transferable
  • Faster processing with cached workflows
  • Data design, extraction & manipulation (ETL/ELT)
  • Prep, blend, cleanse, analyse - all in a single platform

Benefits

  • Improve data-driven decision making across organisation
  • Connect, prep, blend, cleanse, analyse, model - all without programming
  • Connect to sources such as Redshift, Hadoop, via API etc...
  • Reduce data prep burden on analysts & data scientists
  • Clear backlogs of all analytics use cases
  • Drive efficiency through automation & scheduling of repeatable workflows
  • Enrich existing data with demographic, firmographic or spatial data
  • Make data accessible and consumable across the entire organisati
  • Output seamlessly to multiple BI platforms, AI platforms, warehouses etc.
  • Deploy, manage & monitor productionised predictive & machine learning models

Pricing

£0 to £2.30 a unit a year

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

5 6 4 9 8 0 1 6 7 3 9 5 7 9 9

Contact

INTERWORKS EUROPE LTD Daniel Rostron
Telephone: 07531541276
Email: Daniel.rostron@interworks.co.uk

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
  • Public cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
Service constraints
Cloud vendors supported: GCP, Azure, AWS
Each cloud provider will have vendor-recommended hardware requirements (t2.large minimum for example)
Software limited on which cloud data warehouses it can feed data to (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Synapse)
System requirements
Modern browser (Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Edge)

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Within 4 hours Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm
24/7 service is available on request at an additional cost depending on size of environment
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
We provide office hours support desk service via email, phone and video conference.
Support is provided free of charge for anything to do with ensuring that the software is working as it should. Support is only charged for work which would classify as consulting assistance - this is usually separately agreed with clients in advance.
All accounts have an assigned account manager.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Matillion is intuiitive in that it is very easy to start using and get results, but we offer professional services with Matillion that help you train your users and provide best-practices advice on both, workflow building, schedulling, data query, as well as peripheral infrastructure setup and advice. Training (both on- and off-site) is available at additional charge, and might be better utilised as part of project-based consultancy, however does not have to be. We also provide extensive range of articles written by our consultants that cover getting-started questions.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
HTML
End-of-contract data extraction
Matillion acts as an orchestrator of jobs, and therefore does not store customer data on it's server (beyond metadata that it requires for operation and connectivity to source services), however various matillion-specific objects (for example workflow jobs) can be extracted in json form. Beyond that Matillion is running on a VM (virtual machine) operating within your cloud environment, there is a full SSH access (sudo enabled) to that box.
End-of-contract process
You can delete (deallocated and terminate) VM that Matillion is running on which could effectively serve as end-of-contract process.

Using the service

Web browser interface
No
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
No
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
None or don’t know
Description of service interface
Service interface is part of the same IO, but all UI elements are permissions-controlled
Accessibility standards
None or don’t know
Description of accessibility
Accessible through web-based user interface
Accessibility testing
N/a
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
REST API endpoints allow users to interact with various internal matillion components (database drivers), operate workflows, manage jobs, version control, password and authentication (oauth) management, manage queues, schedules and users. All API access is granted through user-level permissions, with fine-grained control on what can be modified.
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
HTML
API sandbox or test environment
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Service is extendable, in that users are able to create and use custom drivers (for example custom SAP-drivers), custom APIs (through API Profile functionality). Use of custom scripting libraries (for example python libraries), installation of which requires admin-level access, is also permitted.

Scaling

Independence of resources
Number of concurrent users (as opposed to registered) are determined by VM (virtual hardware) size. From 2 to 24 users on single instance, with multiple instances and high-availability cluster support available as well. Realistically this is developer-centric platform so larger number of concurrent user is unusual pattern for this type of system, but measures to handle demand can largely be handled within your own infrastructure team.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Matillion does collect telemetry data on most frequently used components to understand usage of it's service. The concent is entirely opt-in, clearly labeled within the UI. https://documentation.matillion.com/docs/2971426

On orchestration job level -- job monitoring is provided through UI task manager (also accessible through API). Admins can also download server log for troubleshooting.
Reporting types
  • API access
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra features and support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Matillion

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Staff screening not performed
Government security clearance
Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
United Kingdom
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
Another external penetration testing organisation
Protecting data at rest
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Encryption of all physical media
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Matillion does not store any user data, but acts as conduit between source system and target data warehouse database in terms of data transfers. Matillion does hold definitions of the orchestration jobs, metadata of both source systems and target systems, user data, which is exportable through UI as well as via API.
Data export formats
Other
Other data export formats
JSON
Data import formats
Other
Other data import formats
JSON

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
Data protection within supplier network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
SLA are backed by and depend on the chosen public cloud provider, all three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) guarangee at least 99.99% monthly uptime percentage, with service credit for any SLAs that are missed. For example if uptime drops to 99.00% 10% credit will be applied.
Approach to resilience
Resilience is backed and provided by the underlying public cloud infrastrucuutre (topology of which you manage in-house). Matillion is available on all three major clouds -- AWS, GCP, Azure.
Outage reporting
Alerting can be set up within individual cloud provider's environment, for example on AWS you are able to define alers through CloudWatch service, which can communicate outage in a any number of ways, including email, SMS, push etc depending on the cloud topology of your choice

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
  • Other
Other user authentication
SAML
Kerberos
Active Directory
OpenID
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Management Interfaces and support channels are secured using roles applied to users to maintain the separation of ability of users. The system is designed to allow only specific and absolutely necessary users the ability to alter authentication and authorisation. Default permission for new users is always set to deny all access until it is specifically granted by and administrative account.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
User-defined
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
User-defined
How long system logs are stored for
User-defined

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Other security certifications
No

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
No
Security governance approach
Data Security is taken very seriously, Matillion as organisation are working toward SOC and ISO 27001 compliance and haavean internal security governance policy, but this is not currently one that is accredited to an external standard. We have never had a security incident or breach.
Information security policies and processes
We have a detailed IT Policy (Security and Internet) which we can make available on demand. The key points of which are:
Roles and responsibilities - the policies are established, monitored and breaches investigated by the directors, but at a core level everyone has a responsibility for security.
Monitoring - we reserve the right to monitor employee use of IT resources, tracking and remote wipe software is installed on all devices
Damage and loss - defined actions in the event of damage or loss of equipment
Misuse and vandalism
Specific guidelines concerning encryption and security admin policies of portable devices, memory sticks, mobile phones, laptops, AV software, email attachments, commitments in emails, IM systems, licensing of software, and password policies.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
At platform level -- release notes for each major version of Matillion will list major fixes and general changes to the system since last release.

All jobs that matillion generates to orchestrate data movement from source system to target data warehouse are tracked server-side, with job versioning system built in (both in-house built system as well as open-source git integration available)
Vulnerability management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Vulnerability management approach
AWS (as well as other cloud providers eg GCP and Azure) have a built in vulnerability testing process which allows the on-demand testing of an VM instance (that we control / have access to).
Protective monitoring type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Protective monitoring approach
Amazon Web Services (as well as other major cloud providers) provide assurance that they take responsibility for identifying potential compromises and alert users on discovery. Response times for such incidents are managed by the underlying cloud provider's team.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
User reported incidents go to our support desk for triage. If the support desk cannot resolve it immediately it is escalated to the correct specialist within the team.
Incidents discovered by our team would be notified directly to the client. Minor issues would usually be resolved then alerted. Major issues would be alerted first and then the focus would move on to resolution.
Incidents are reported via email

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Fighting climate change

Fighting climate change

We endeavour to do our best in fighting climate change and have made an active effort to switch our delivery to remote working vs onsite delivery where possible, thus reducing our travel & impact on the environment.
Covid-19 recovery

Covid-19 recovery

As COVID-19 continues to affect us all this year, we want to recognize the balance of time and energy it takes to keep our day-to-day responsibilities moving along. Whether you are managing a large family or living the single life, COVID seems to keep trying to throw a wrench in all of our plans.

To help handle this burden, we are putting a new PTO category in place. For 2022, we're making 80 hours available to each employee to be used for the time COVID is taking from us all. This time should be used specifically for:

Vaccine-Related. Attending a vaccine or booster appointment, either for yourself or a family member. Or, you are dealing with vaccine-related symptoms or are caring for a family member with vaccine-related symptoms.
Caring for Yourself. You have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and are experiencing symptoms, or are seeking medical diagnosis and help due to these symptoms.

Caring for Family. You are caring for a family member who has COVID, or you are caring for someone subject to a COVID-19 quarantine or isolation period. You are caring for a child whose school or place of care is closed or unavailable due to COVID-related closure.
Tackling economic inequality

Tackling economic inequality

We endeavour to try our best to tackle economic inequality.
Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

We endeavour to try our best to offer equal opportunities.
Wellbeing

Wellbeing

We endeavour the try our best to supporting employee wellbeing

Pricing

Price
£0 to £2.30 a unit a year
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
14 day trial period of fully functioning evaluation copy of the software, sufficient to establish viability and appropriateness of the solution plus any proportionate assistance. Cloud infrastructure charges (eg cost of VM hardware resources) still apply.
Not included: extensive custom development of bespoke solutions
Link to free trial
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/Matillion-Matillion-ETL-for-Snowflake/B073GRSSZD

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at Daniel.rostron@interworks.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.