The Data Catalog helps data consumers to easily find and understand data, to quickly access the data they need, when they need it, across all of your data sources, applications, BI and data science tools.
In Data Catalog, you can integrate metadata from multiple data sources: databases, data lakes, warehouses, enterprise applications, ETL tools, and BI solutions. Metadata provides information such as the format of the data, the structure of the data, and when assets were created.
Data Catalog also allows you to enrich the integrated metadata by adding profiling information, defining the data class, showing sample data, linking the meta data to the business context, showing the lineage, data quality, and more.
The overarching aim of Data Catalog is to create and maintain an inventory of an organization’s data assets across its entire digital landscape, so that data assets are easier to find and trust to drive insightful business decisions by data consumers.