With the right metadata management tools, you can understand your data with full context. They help you increase your data’s quality and relevance. This allows you to unleash its full business value. As data continues to grow and become more distributed, it’s essential to use metadata to:
These are mission-critical processes. As such, metadata management plays a central, strategic role in driving digital transformation.
A metadata management solution becomes even more valuable if it is active. This means your metadata management is accelerated with AI and machine learning, augmented with human knowledge and integrated with data analytics programs and other applications that generate new data insights. It makes broader data management processes, applications and systems more intelligent and dynamic.
Active metadata management is the foundation of a well-architected data management system. This yields benefits across the entire lifecycle of data projects. For example, creating a metadata repository can highlight missing, incorrect or anomalous data. By tapping into the metadata, your systems can automatically correct and enrich the data feeding into a report. This helps avoid costly errors. It also enhances the quality of data analytics to sharpen data-driven decision-making.
Informatica’s enterprise metadata management tools help you fully harness the value of all your data with active metadata.
Informatica helps enterprises to start this journey by tapping into four major categories of metadata:
Metadata in these four categories becomes the basis for a common metadata foundation. Informatica metadata management uses a rich set of capabilities to create this shared foundation:
Scan metadata from all enterprise data systems across the cloud and on-premises, such as data lakes and data warehouses. This includes databases and filesystems, data integration tools and processes that help fuel your data analytics and data science tools with a high level of trustworthiness toward data fitness.
Document the business view of data with glossary terms, concepts, relationships and processes. Augment the collected metadata with this business context. Gather user input in the form of ratings, reviews, and certifications. This helps to assess the usefulness of data assets to other users.
Apply intelligence to derive relationships not obvious in the collected metadata. This includes data provenance and data lineage, data similarity, and ranking the most useful data sets for different types of users and purposes.
Informatica gathers technical, business, operational and usage metadata. This is used to create a knowledge graph of an enterprise’s data assets and their relationships. This metadata graph is made active by applying AI & machine learning, and integrating it with all of our data management solutions.
Active metadata serves as the unifying foundation for the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud, a cloud-native and AI-powered data management platform. Active metadata also fuels data intelligence in the CLAIRE AI engine. This accelerates and automates core data management and governance processes.
CLAIRE uses metadata to:
Making an intelligent data catalog a core part of your data infrastructure brings additional benefits. You can ensure that active metadata is integrated into all your data management processes. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog helps you capture enterprise-wide metadata and turn it into active metadata. This is done using extensive metadata connectors. These scan and index metadata augmented with intelligence from CLAIRE.
Active metadata adds automation to make data easier and more efficient to use. Users can better build, deploy and operate data management applications. These apply to data analytics, data science, data governance and nearly any other data-driven business priority.
Here are a few ways Informatica’s active metadata management tools deliver value across the data management lifecycle:
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