Account Structure

Understanding how organizations and workspaces organize your data integration work in Precog.

Precog uses a simple hierarchy to organize your data integration projects: Organizations contain Workspaces. This structure helps you organize your data work in a way that makes sense for your business, whether you're a small team with a few data sources or a large company with complex integration needs.

The Basic Structure

Your Precog Account
└── Organization (Your Company)
    ├── Workspace 1 (Sales Department)
    ├── Workspace 2 (Marketing Department)
    ├── Workspace 3 (Finance Department)
    └── Workspace 4 (Customer Support)

Organizations: Your Business Container

An organization represents your business or team in Precog. This is where you manage:

  • Team members - Who has access to your data integration projects
  • Billing and subscriptions - How you pay for Precog services
  • Security settings - Authentication and access controls
  • Overall governance - Policies and standards for your data work

Most users work within a single organization that represents their company or team. Your organization is your main workspace container and the billing boundary for your Precog usage.

Workspaces: Your Project Areas

Within your organization, you create workspaces to organize different aspects of your data integration work. Each workspace contains:

  • Data sources - The systems you're pulling data from
  • Destinations - Where your integrated data goes
  • Schedules - When your data integration runs
  • Processing history - Logs and monitoring for your data flows

How to Think About Workspaces

The beauty of workspaces is their flexibility—you can organize them however makes sense for your business:

By Department

Marketing Organization
├── Email Marketing Workspace
├── Advertising Analytics Workspace
├── Social Media Workspace
└── Website Analytics Workspace

By System or Function

Operations Organization
├── Customer Data Workspace (CRM → Data Warehouse)
├── Financial Reporting Workspace (ERP → BI Tool)
├── Inventory Management Workspace (Multiple sources → Operations DB)
└── Support Analytics Workspace (Support tools → Analytics platform)

By Environment

Product Team Organization
├── Production Data Pipeline
├── Staging Environment
└── Development Workspace

By Data Domain

Analytics Organization
├── Customer Analytics Workspace
├── Product Usage Workspace
├── Financial Metrics Workspace
└── Operational Dashboards Workspace

Why This Structure Matters

Organized Data Work Workspaces keep related data integration projects together, making it easier to manage sources, destinations, and schedules that serve the same business purpose.

Team Collaboration Multiple team members can work within the same organization and access the workspaces relevant to their role, enabling collaboration while maintaining appropriate access controls.

Flexible Growth As your data integration needs grow, you can easily add new workspaces for new departments, systems, or projects without disrupting existing work.

Clear Ownership Each workspace can have clear ownership and responsibility, making it easy to know who manages which data integration projects.

Multiple Organizations (Advanced)

While most users work within a single organization, Precog accounts can belong to multiple organizations. This might be useful if you:

  • Work as a consultant serving multiple clients
  • Are part of multiple companies or business units
  • Need to maintain separate billing for different projects

However, for most users, the important concept is working within your primary organization and using multiple workspaces to organize your different data integration needs.

Getting Started with Your Structure

When you first start with Precog:

  1. You'll be in an organization - This might be created for you or you might create one for your team/company
  2. Create workspaces as needed - Start with one workspace for your first data integration project
  3. Add more workspaces - As you expand, create additional workspaces to organize different aspects of your data work
  4. Invite team members - Add colleagues to your organization so they can collaborate on workspace projects

Planning Your Workspace Structure

Before creating multiple workspaces, consider:

What makes sense for your team?

  • Do you want to separate by department, project, or data type?
  • Who needs access to which data integration work?
  • How do you want to organize monitoring and maintenance?

Start simple

  • Begin with one workspace for your most important data integration
  • Add additional workspaces as your needs become clear
  • You can always reorganize later as your understanding evolves

Think about collaboration

  • Which team members need to work together on data integration projects?
  • How do you want to divide responsibilities for different data flows?
  • What level of access does each team member need?

Next Steps

Now that you understand account structure:

  1. Try Getting Started - Set up your first workspace and data integration
  2. Learn about Organizations - Manage team access and organizational settings
  3. Explore Workspaces - Deep dive into workspace management and configuration

The key takeaway is that Precog's structure is designed to be flexible and grow with your needs. You're working within an organization, and within that organization, you can create as many workspaces as you need to keep your data integration work organized and manageable.