No longer a “nice to have”

A data catalog provides context that enables users across the organization – from data stewards, to data engineers, data analysts, and other data consumers – to find and understand relevant data for the purpose of extracting business value.

Modern machine-learning-augmented data catalogs automate various tedious tasks involved in data cataloging, including metadata discovery, ingestion, translation, enrichment, and the creation of semantic relationships between metadata. Next-generation data catalogs will propel enterprise metadata management projects by allowing business users to participate in understanding, enriching, and using metadata to inform and further their data and analytics initiatives.

Data catalogs are no longer a “nice to have” but a “need to have.” Core components in Precisely’s business-first data catalog solution include:

• 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 for faster and more complete asset discovery.
• Visualizations to easily understand relationships, lineage, and impact analysis.
• Automated metadata harvesting to crawl, profile, and manage data to build and maintain a single searchable inventory of data assets.
• 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, comments, and surveys.

Data Driven Outcomes: It all starts with the Data Catalog

Transform your data with data governance

A data catalog and data governance have different definitions, but they share a common goal: to empower all data users to discover, leverage, and trust data assets.

A data catalog is a core component of data governance. But a data catalog without a solid data governance framework to manage people, processes, and technology will fall short of its optimal value to an organization. Businesses must understand the differences between these two terms and understand their synergistic relationship.

With data governance, you’re implementing a framework that helps data users understand and transform data assets in the data catalog into valuable information that powers business outcomes. Data governance enables you to:

• Identify the data stewards/owners responsible and accountable for the data’s origin, definition, business attributes, relationships, and dependencies to build a common understanding across teams
• Provide user-friendly options that encourage teamwork and collaboration to synthesize all the technical and business details surrounding your organization’s data assets across multiple users in different departments.
• Document how data assets relate to KPI’s and business objectives across all data users and consumers in the organization – seamlessly bringing visibility to the actual business value

The Data Governance module of the Precisely Data Integrity Suite centralizes processes and visibility for monitoring and tracking data quality, regulatory compliance, and appropriate data usage. Dynamic data quality scores, rules, and metrics can be viewed in dashboards to inform data users, with a feedback loop to continuously improve critical data sets.

Data policies and regulatory requirements can be easily discovered and monitored to protect your organization from risk, but also be leveraged for reporting and operational improvements that impact the bottom line.

Look to the future with a next-generation data catalog

In his keynote address at Precisely’s Trust ’22 event, Forrester Principal Analyst, Achim Granzen stated that data integrity is the basis of transforming all data to insights. The data catalog is the baseline for all data-driven organizations to get there.

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.

But what if you could unite these capabilities in a modular, and interoperable SaaS suite with a common set of services and a business-friendly user experience? That’s where the Precisely Data Integrity Suite changes the game. All user journeys start from the data catalog that inventories metadata from all seven modules 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 this as your one-stop shop for trusted data.

Easily addressing new use cases through a shared data catalog is cost-effective, easy to deploy, and highly scalable. The modular design means you can consume the modules you need, when you need them. And while each best-in-class module delivers tremendous value, what makes the suite truly unique and innovative is the Data Integrity Foundation – connecting all modules through the data catalog.

Learn more about the Data Integrity Suite