DATA GOVERNANCE AND QUALITY
Data catalog solutions
Empower both business and technical teams with a dynamic data catalog to find, understand, and leverage your most valuable asset – your data.
Business-first data catalog
Imagine you visit a library to find a specific book. You have two approaches to consider:
Option 1 – start browsing the aisles until you find what you’re looking for.
Option 2 – use an online catalog to quickly find a specific book of interest, learn where the book is located, see what edition is on the shelf, and read a brief synopsis so you can be sure it contains the information you need.
For most people, the second option is the clear winner!
If you think of all the data in your organization as books in an expansive, digital library, having an organized inventory of assets is essential to finding and using them. Otherwise, without a way to locate the correct data and know its value, you’re left with a mountain (or lake) of meaningless information.
The solution?
You need a data catalog.
Historically, data catalogs have been built for the technical teams in an organization. They contained an index to physical metadata, such as location, schema, and runtime metrics of your data. These are all critical to a modern-day smart data catalog, with the 2025 Outlook: Data Integrity Trends and Insights survey reporting that 76% say data -driven decisions-making is their #1 goal for data programs, yet 67% don’t completely trust their data.
Today’s data users demand native-language search, advanced semantic tags, and data that is accurate, consistent, and contextualized — making a business-friendly catalog a critical foundation for any data-driven strategy.
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Create a dynamic data catalog for data-driven businesses
No longer a “nice to have”
A data catalog gives users across the organization — from data stewards to analysts and engineers — the context they need to find, understand, and extract value from data. Modern, AI-powered catalogs automate metadata discovery, enrichment, and semantic tagging, enabling business users to participate in and benefit from enterprise metadata management. Core components include:
Business-friendly interface, metamodel, and search capabilities where both business and technical users can search, explore, understand, and collaborate around critical data assets.
- Business-friendly interface, metamodel, and search capabilities where both business and technical users can search, explore, understand, and collaborate around critical data assets.
- Artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) to identify and semantically tag assets, create a shared semantic layer for consistent business definitions, and enable faster and more complete asset discovery.
- API and MCP server access to catalog metadata, quality rules, and governed meta.
- Visualizations to easily understand relationships, lineage, and workflow.
- Automated metadata harvesting to crawl, profile, and continuously enhance your catalog — delivering active metadata that keeps your catalog current and ready to support new business needs.
- Workflow to monitor, audit, certify, and track data lifecycle and enable data stewards to manage data assets and share information.
- Collaborative functionality to enable sharing of tribal knowledge and comments.
Data Driven Outcomes: It all starts with the Data Catalog
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Expand the value of your data catalog with data governance
Transform your data with data governance
A data catalog and data governance programs share a common goal: to empower all data users to discover, leverage, and trust data assets. But a catalog without a solid governance framework will fall short of its full potential. Governance transforms catalog data into valuable business information by identifying data owners and stewards, fostering collaboration across technical and business users, and connecting data assets to KPIs and business objectives — making it easier to see the business value your data delivers.
Look to the future with a next-generation data catalog
If data users aren’t able to find, understand, and trust all critical data, then valuable information – and time – is lost in simply attempting to locate, aggregate, interpret, and supplement raw data.
If users can’t access and act on critical data, valuable information — and time — is lost. Uniting catalog, governance, quality, and integration capabilities in an interoperable SaaS solution solves this by delivering a single, business-friendly experience across all your data needs.
That’s where the Precisely Data Integrity Suite helps you move faster. All user journeys start from the data catalog that inventories metadata from all services in the Suite. With this innovative approach, your team can discover, understand, trust, and enrich data all from a single interface and user experience to expedite business outcomes and analytics. Think of it as your one-stop shop for trusted data — extended through the Data Product Marketplace so teams can find, trust, and use governed data across teams, partners, and ecosystems.
Deliver trusted data to your business with the Data Integrity Suite
Precisely is here to help
Data catalog that addresses your unique needs
Whether you‘re looking for a data catalog that’s stand-alone, powered with robust data governance capabilities, or the bedrock of the innovative Data Integrity Suite, Precisely provides a business-friendly data catalog that enables teams to quickly discover, understand, and leverage critical data that impact business outcomes.
Explore how we can help you adapt to the use cases that are the most important drivers for your company.
