Data Flow Templates

Keboola's Data Flow Templates are pre-configured, ready-to-use solutions that streamline your data pipeline processes, enabling you to rapidly deploy, test, and scale your data-driven projects. Designed for simplicity and efficiency, these templates eliminate the tedious manual setup, letting you focus on extracting actionable insights from your data.

What Are Data Flow Templates?

At their core, Keboola's Data Flow Templates are predefined sets of component configurations that accelerate the deployment and management of data pipelines. They cover a wide range of use-cases, from basic data extraction and transformations to advanced modeling, complex analysis, and machine learning workflows. By utilizing these templates, businesses significantly reduce the time needed to go from initial concept to fully operational data projects.

Key Benefits of Using Data Flow Templates

• Rapid Deployment: Deploying a data pipeline with Keboola’s templates takes only minutes, rather than hours or days. This swift deployment allows your team to quickly test pipeline functionality and suitability for your business needs.
• Increased Efficiency and Productivity: Templates remove the need to manually discover, acquire, organize, clean, transform, and model data step-by-step. This saves substantial time, enabling your team to focus on analytics and insights rather than pipeline setup.
• Reusable and Customizable: Templates can be reused multiple times across different projects or departments. While they can be deployed exactly as provided, Keboola also allows customization to fit your specific requirements.
• Continuous Updates and Maintenance: Keboola actively maintains and updates the standard templates for optimal performance. When a data source or component changes, Keboola creates an updated version, ensuring your templates always reflect the latest configurations and best practices.

How Does It Work in Practice?

Using Data Flow Templates in Keboola is straightforward. Navigate to the Templates section within the Keboola platform to explore available options. Templates are conveniently categorized into relevant groups, such as Marketing, CRM, E-Commerce, Project Management, and more, making it easy to find exactly what you need.

Each template includes detailed documentation, clearly explaining how it works, what transformations and components it includes, and what the expected output is. For example, the "Hands-on Data Quality" template provides detailed Snowflake SQL procedures alongside Python transformations, delivering immediate value in data quality monitoring.

Step-by-Step Guide to Using Templates

1. Select Your Desired Template: Navigate to the Templates tab and browse through the categorized listings or use the search function to find your desired template.
2. Review Detailed Information: Clicking "Use Template" reveals comprehensive documentation, outlining exactly how the template functions, the components included, and their output.
3. Name and Configure Your Template: After selecting the template, provide a unique name for easy identification. Depending on complexity, some templates may require additional inputs or authorizations.
4. Deploy and Run Instantly: Click "Save" to deploy the template configuration into your project. Immediately after saving, the template is ready to run, either by clicking "Run Template" or by selecting the template under Flows and running the pipeline.

Examples of Popular Keboola Templates

Here are a few examples illustrating the diversity and practical value of Keboola’s Data Flow Templates:

• CRM HubSpot Integration: Quickly connect your HubSpot CRM data with Keboola. This template includes predefined authorizations and configurations that streamline data extraction and transformation, allowing you to perform in-depth analyses of your customer interactions without manual setup.
• Marketing Analytics Pipeline: Extract and unify data from multiple marketing sources, transforming it into actionable insights. This template simplifies the creation of comprehensive marketing dashboards and reports.
• E-Commerce Sales Analysis: Accelerate your e-commerce analytics by deploying ready-made transformations and visualizations. Quickly identify sales trends, customer behavior, and product performance.

Customization and Version Control

While Keboola templates come fully operational out-of-the-box, they also offer flexibility for customization. You can adapt and expand them to meet your unique business challenges. However, it is important to remember:

• Keboola maintains and updates only the templates which have not been modified by users. If you customize a template, automatic updates will not apply to your modified version.
• When components within a template change (for example, new APIs, transformations, or source data fields), Keboola provides an updated template version. You can simply select and apply the updated version from the Templates page to ensure compatibility and performance.
• Applying an updated template version to your customized pipeline will overwrite previous customizations. Therefore, Keboola recommends carefully reviewing and manually merging configurations when updating customized templates.

Ensuring Continuous Value

Keboola commits to continuously evolving its templates library, regularly adding new templates driven by real-world industry use cases and customer feedback. This ensures your data pipelines always leverage the latest best practices, innovations, and integrations available.

With Keboola's Data Flow Templates, your teams gain the agility to swiftly adapt to changing business environments, reduce technical overhead, and accelerate data-driven decision-making, providing your business with a significant competitive edge.