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title: "Dawiso Platform Basics | Dawiso Academy"
description: "Set up the Dawiso interface around the way your team already works: customize spaces, apps and views, then run governance without a technical detour."
url: "https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/dawiso-platform-basics"
language: "en"
---

Get Started

[Dawiso Platform Basics](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/dawiso-platform-basics)

Technical Features

[Navigation and Search](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/navigation-and-search)

[Data Organization and Code Lists](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/data-organization-and-code-lists)

[Documentation](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/documentation)

[Business Glossary](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/business-glossary)

[Productivity Boost](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/productivity-boost)

[User Management & Access Control](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/user-management-access-control)

[Data Modeling](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/data-modeling)

[Ownership & Stewardship](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/ownership-stewardship)

[Data Ingestion](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/data-ingestion)

[Dawiso MCP (Model Context Protocol)](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/dawiso-mcp-model-context-protocol)

[Data Lineage](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/data-lineage)

Tools

[Data Governance Adoption Guide](https://www.dawiso.com/guide)

Other Resources

[Dawiso Help](https://help.dawiso.com/)

[Dawiso Blog](https://www.dawiso.com/resources)

Category:

Get started

# Dawiso Platform Basics

Get familiar with Dawiso with our quick guide! Dive into Dawiso's intuitive interface and discover how to customize the environment to fit your needs. With Dawiso, you can easily streamline your data governance processes.

## About this lesson

Most data governance tools fail for the same reason: nobody can find their way around them. Dawiso organizes everything into three nested ideas. A space is a workspace for a team or a domain, an app is a purpose-built area inside it such as the glossary or the catalog, and an object is a single documented thing such as a table, a term or a report. Learn those three and every other lesson in this series becomes navigation rather than discovery.

**Who it is for.** Anyone opening Dawiso for the first time, whichever role brought them there.

## Points to cover

- What Dawiso is and what it's for
- Dawiso main dashboard and its components (spaces, apps, objects)
- Dawiso core apps that will be covered in this section

## What you will be able to do

- Explain what Dawiso is for and where it sits alongside your existing data stack
- Move between spaces, apps and objects without hunting for them
- Recognize which core app to reach for when you have a specific job to do

## Go deeper

The catalog is where most teams start, and it is the app the rest of this series keeps returning to. [Data Catalog](https://www.dawiso.com/product/data-catalog)

### [Dawiso MCP (Model Context Protocol)](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/dawiso-mcp-model-context-protocol)

Read more

### [Data Ingestion](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/data-ingestion)

Read more

### [Ownership & Stewardship](https://www.dawiso.com/academy-lesson/ownership-stewardship)

Read more