- Learning Path
- Enterprise Data Catalog: Beginner
Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) provides business and IT users with powerful semantic search and dynamic facets to filter search results, data lineage, profiling statistics, 360-degree relationship views, data similarity recommendations, and an integrated business glossary. This enables IT users to be more productive and business users to be able to be full partners in the management and use of data. You can now easily and efficiently manage enterprise data assets to maximize their value throughout the company. Business users can quickly find data and easily manage the lifecycle of business terms, definitions, reference data, and more.
The Beginner level will enable you to learn about Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog at a basic level. It constitutes of videos, webinars and other documents on introduction to Enterprise Data Catalog, Mind map & Lifecycle, use cases, semantic search, search and relationships, data discovery, curation, profiling, custom attributes and more.
After you successfully complete all the three levels of Enterprise Data Catalog product learning, you will earn an Informatica Badge for Enterprise Data Catalog. So start your product learning right away!
This module covered an overview EDC, why EDC is imported in managing data in an organization, Data Asset Management, and Governance, and benefits of an Intelligent Data Catalog along with EDC use cases.
This module walked you through Search and Relationship, Data Discovery, Data Curation and Data Profiling. It showed you how to explore lineage and impact views, how relationship view helps in identifying the relationship between the selected asset and other assets in the Catalog, how to explore the general information of a particular asset and help you if you need to quickly find specific metadata.
Now move on to the Intermediate level for your EDC learning path and get to know more about the product.
Contents
This video explains what is Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) how can your organization benefit from EDC. By classifying your data, knowing more about your data, and sharing your data knowledge you can turn dark data into a valuable asset.
Data Catalog helps in Self-service discovery for analytics, data governance and IT impact analysis. Learn more about its three unique capabilities as you go through this video.
Additional Resource: Overview of EDC Key Features and Benefits
Go through this video to understand why Enterprise Data Catalog is imported in managing data in an organization and how to leverage the gold-mine of information which is hidden in your data assets.
Go through the following documents to get an overview of the Enterprise Data Catalog along with more information on Data Asset Management and Governance, types of Enterprise Metadata, and Tribal knowledge to AI-powered catalog.
Data Asset Management and Governance Data
Enterprise Data Catalog: Mind Map and Lifecycle
Click here to view the EDC Mind Map and Lifecycle. This will give you a consolidated view of how EDC works and also discuss the various elements of EDC like ingestion, profiling, classifying, index, annotate, and discover.
AI-Powered Data Cataloging Virtual Summit
Find out how to lay the data foundation to power all digital transformation priorities with an intelligent data catalog that delivers the best of AI, human knowledge and enterprise scale. In this video, you will hear from industry leaders and experts on topics such as modern architecture and usage, modern use cases, and enterprise-scale cataloging. Register and attend the session to know more.
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Additional Resources:
This webinar showcases how Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) and Axon were critical to success and the best practices that have helped Hartford HealthCare operationalize their data governance program. During the webinar, you will learn the best practices for architecting and configuring EDC and Axon for optimal results, access management techniques, such as industry-standard roles, and how to use Axon and EDC for data lineage and so much more.
This video discusses about data discovery challenges and opportunities, Data Catalogs and the role they play in supporting your data governance program, and more specifically providing data context. it also talks about how AI can help deal with volume and complexity issues.
The Search feature in EDC enables you to discover specific assets and asset names using wild-card characters. Search for synonyms that are sourced from dictionaries, glossaries, and same-as relationships. Learn more about these through this video.
This video demonstrates how you can configure asset type system attributes and custom attributes in EDC. Go through this video to Configure EDC to customize filters, search results, or information displayed in the views with the help of a demo.
You can produce graphical data lineage for ETL mappings as well as change impact analysis. In today's Metadata era, Informatica EDC provides the next-generation machine learning, lineage and impact analysis feature. In this video, you would explore the lineage and impact views followed by a demo.
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This quick video demonstrates lineage and impact capabilities of the Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog.
In EDC, the relationships viewed displays the asset relationships in a graphical form. In this video, explore how the relationship view helps in identifying the relationship between the selected asset and other assets in the Catalog followed by a demo.
This video will help you on how to explore the general information of a particular asset. Asset details view provides details such as the asset type, parent asset, resource that contains the asset, date at which the asset was last dated in the catalog, and the path to the asset in the EDC.
This video explains how customer attributes can narrow down the search results for a results asset in Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) when you need to quickly find specific metadata. Go through this video to know more.
This video explains assigning and curating new data domains in EDC, followed by a demo.
In this video, learn how to curate the inferred profile results for data domains. Go through this video to know more on how to curate data domains for columns and fields for more accurate data domain inferences with the help of a demo video.
This video explains how to explore associated data profiling statistics. Go through this video to know more about using Asset Details view to view general information about the asset such as the asset type, parent asset, and resource that contains the asset with the help of a demo.
Go through this video to learn more about synchronizing with Informatica Business Glossary.
Additional Resource: Enterprise Data Catalog - Working with a Business Glossary
An overview of Enterprise Data Catalog, the path to success, and guide to implementing your program strategy, plus a "fireside chat" about EDC adoption with Informatica customer BioGen.
EDC for AWS: Overview of key features for data discovery, cataloging, and management.
Data Cataloging: Essential for your analytics modernization initiatives
Hear how Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog enables both business and IT users to discover, understand, curate, and manage all data assets across the enterprise, and see an AI-powered data catalog in action.
TDWI Checklist Report: The Data Catalog’s Role in the Digital Enterprise
With a modern data catalog, you can deliver trusted data for new use-cases, such as self-service analytics and big data analytics. Intelligent automation of data cataloging helps you onboard new systems and data very efficiently.
This datasheet explains about EDC Advanced Scanners and its ability to extract deep metadata from hybrid and multi-cloud data sources. It talks about how every data transformation within the organization can be traced and understood.
This blog focuses on the role played by EDC Advanced Scanners. It also mentions the importance of Informatica's acquisition of Compact Solutions and the synergy both the companies share. The blog emphasizes on the importance of metadata and the need to extract this data.
This session is intended for Data Governance customers who are using Axon, EDC and IDQ or want to know more about Integrated Data Governance.
At the end of this session, customers will be able to get insights about the dimensions of Data Governance, how to integrate with EDC and IDQ including Best Practices.
This webinar is intended for Business users, Data Stewards and Data Stakeholders, and Data Governance Architects to understand end to end Data Governance Journey use case with Informatica products.
This webinar is intended for Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) users to get an overview of the newly introduced Data Asset Analytics in EDC. This helps in optimizing data asset value in the catalog by using analytics on the data asset inventory, asset enrichment, and user collaboration.
This webinar is intended for users who have Databricks used as source and target in BDM mapping who would want to the see the Lineage in Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC).
This webinar is will give users more insight into the Enterprise Data Catalog Advance Scanner configuration and architecture.
Here is the agenda for this session:
- Introduction
- EDC Advance Scanner Architecture
- EDC Advance Scanner Configuration
- Demo
- Q&A
This session is intended for Data Governance customers who are looking for deployment best practices for products like Axon, EDC, IDQ and DPM, and Reference Architecture. At the end of this session, customers will be able to get insights about the planning, sizing and maintenance of the product ecosystem with some best practices.