Data Catalog

Find, understand and trust your data with AI-powered data cataloging and metadata management.

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“It’s impossible to overstate the value of getting your data right. With Informatica, our teams make well-informed decisions the first time around, which means better results for consumers, faster.”

Luiz Santos

Deputy Chief Data Officer, ANEEL

Automate data discovery, curation and lineage

Find data across cloud and on-premises

Efficiently locate data assets and identify their content, structure and relationships for a complete view of data.

Find data across cloud and on-premises
Enrich data with AI-powered curation

Enrich data with AI-powered curation

Add relevant context to data assets through automated classification, association and recommendations.

Understand relationships with data lineage

Explore asset relationships and analyze impact with automated, end-to-end data lineage.

Understand relationships with data lineage
Assess and monitor data quality

Assess and monitor data quality

Automatically profile data, apply rules, identify issues and measure data quality via metrics & scorecards.

Collaborate and harness tribal knowledge

Share insights and enhance metadata with certifications, ratings, reviews, Q&A, workflows and notifications.

Collaborate and harness tribal knowledge

Get consumption-based pricing

Pay only for what you use with our flexible pricing.

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Explore related Data Catalog services

As a leading part of the AI-powered Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), Data Catalog works with a range of complementary services.

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Key Data Catalog Resources

Meet the Experts: What’s New in Cloud Data Governance and Catalog

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eBook
How to Use Data Intelligence to Drive Better Business Decisions
Learn how to build a predictive data intelligence foundation that enables critical business and technical decision-making to drive value and efficiency.
Workbook

Cloud Data Governance and Catalog Adoption Guide: 8 Best Practices for Success

Download this step-by-step workbook for expert-level advice on how use data governance to build and evangelize an agile foundation of data intelligence.

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Deliver Data Intelligence with Cloud Data Governance and Catalog

Your teams need accurate information in order to make impactful, data-driven decisions. With Cloud Data Governance and Catalog, data leaders ensure that their teams can find, understand, trust and access governed data to deliver data intelligence.

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Cloud Data Governance and Catalog

Cloud Data Governance and Catalog, a service of Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC) combines data governance, data catalog and data quality capabilities into a singular tool for automating data intelligence insights.

FAQ for Data Catalogs

A data catalog is a centralized inventory of data with information which describes that data (metadata) that helps organizations efficiently find and understand these assets. Data catalogs offer modern enterprises a way to harness the power of data for analytics and AI initiatives by curating it to raise data quality, classifying it for relevancy, and overall building its trustworthiness.

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A data catalog is a centralized inventory of data with information which describes that data (metadata) that helps organizations efficiently find and understand these assets. Data catalogs offer modern enterprises a way to harness the power of data for analytics and AI initiatives by curating it to raise data quality, classifying it for relevancy, and overall building its trustworthiness.

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A machine learning data catalog utilizes advanced algorithms and techniques to automate capabilities including data discovery, metadata extraction, data inventory, data classification, data curation and data lineage.

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A data dictionary provides technical documentation, specification and description of data structures in a database including data attributes, fields, data type, length, valid values, default values etc. Whereas, a data catalog serves as a centralized repository of all data assets across the organization with search and management tools that enable data discovery, promote collaboration, and support data governance.

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A data catalog allows organizations to connect to data sources, classify data types and inventory them; whereas a data marketplace provides the next step by packaging up these data sets into data products for end users to request, review and use for business initiatives by accessing them using a business-friendly portal.

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