Modern Data 101: Go-to Metrics for Data Products

https://moderndata101.substack.com/p/the-go-to-metrics-for-data-products

Some great resources and definitions in this substack posting, but I particuluarly love the defintion of an internal data product as..

…an application that uses data to make the next actions immediate.

From that perspective, a simple report is not data product, as there’s not immediacy of the action. What I wonder, though, is if the same definiton holds true of external data products. The author states that a report would not count as a data product but, if it added buttons to allow the users to take some actions, it would. Is that still true if it’s an external data product or, in that case, would the simple report count as a data product?