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erwin Data Catalog

Know your data. erwin® Data Catalog by Quest® is data catalog software providing the enterprise data visibility to fully understand available data, where it’s located, its quality, and how it flows throughout your organization. It empowers IT teams with metadata management automation and tools to efficiently catalog, enrich and activate metadata, so data assets are found and understood more quickly for data management and metadata-driven automation can help you deliver data pipelines faster. When used with with erwin Data Literacy by Quest, erwin Data Catalog provides the technical data governance foundation organizations require to maximize data value and limit risk.
erwin Data Catalog
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The benefits of erwin Data Catalog

Enterprise data visibility is the foundation for sustainable data and AI governance, data platform and pipeline modernization, or any organizational effort to maximize the accessibility and value of data for the business. But to practically deliver enterprise data visibility, automation is critical. erwin Data Catalog fueled with erwin Data Connectors automates metadata harvesting and management, data mapping, data quality assessment, data lineage and more for IT teams. Software benefits include:

One central metadata repository

Automatically harvest, catalog and curate data-at-rest and data-in-motion metadata from anywhere into one unified enterprise metadata catalog.

Metadata-driven automation

Pair metadata with automation to fuel data management capabilities such as producing data lineage, performing impact analysis and assessing data quality.

IT data governance

Put data governance at the forefront for IT teams with integrated visibility of data-related policies and procedures.

Increased data quality

Leverage metadata to automate data profiling and quality assessment, and expand data quality visibility throughout the organization.

Sensitive data governance

Minimize data risks and support IT audits and regulatory compliance with clear visibility of data sensitivity and integrated governance processes.

Faster IT project delivery

Increase the speed and accuracy of data pipelines and digital transformation projects including cloud migration, data warehouse, data lake, data vault and Big Data deployments.

Broad & deep visibility

Give all stakeholders the visibility to understand, manage, protect and best leverage data across the organization.
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Automate data cataloging with erwin

erwin Data Catalog software provides IT teams the data landscape visibility and metadata management automation to auto-document, understand, develop and manage the data delivery pipelines that today’s data-driven organizations require. Take a look:
Data Catalog dashboard

Data Catalog dashboard

See contextual views of your entire data landscape and instantly drill into the details behind the visuals to guide data management and understanding.
Metadata & mapping management

Metadata & mapping management

Automate metadata discovery, harvesting, enrichment and curation and auto-generate data mappings, complete with full version control.
Data quality integration

Data quality integration

Automate data profiling and quality assessment using data catalog metadata and see resulting data quality scores throughout erwin Data Intelligence.
Detailed data lineage

Detailed data lineage

Auto-generate detailed data lineage down to the column-level and see dataflows from source to target systems with all transformations in between.
Fast impact analysis

Fast impact analysis

Take advantage of impact analysis capabilities to quickly determine in seconds the upstream and downstream impacts of a proposed change to an attribute or table.
erwin Data Connectors

erwin Data Connectors

Gain a complete view of your data landscape and activate metadata with industry-proven erwin data connectors.
erwin Data Literacy

erwin Data Literacy

Integrate with erwin Data Literacy to unite business context and governance with the data catalog and deliver data asset visibility and understanding to business users.
erwin Data Marketplace

erwin Data Marketplace

Unite data catalog automation, data modeling and a data marketplace to go from model to marketplace and efficiently deliver data products to the business.

Reference data management

Reference data management

Manage reference data of all types to provide visibility, control and consistency, reduce costs and ensure accurate and consistent use across systems.
Lifecycle management

Lifecycle management

Enable visibility and control for migration, modernization and integration projects using included development lifecycle management capabilities.

Why trust erwin by Quest?

Analyst-recognized as a data catalog software and metadata management market leader, erwin Data Intelligence by Quest is used by leading enterprises worldwide, many of which are in heavily regulated industries demanding precision and transparency. Market-leading data lineage, powerful impact analysis, integration with erwin Data Modeler by Quest, and a vast proven library of erwin Data Connectors and automation expertise are just a few of the reasons companies choose to rely on erwin by Quest. With erwin Data Catalog, you will have the following capabilities:

Enterprise data catalog

Curate any metadata from anywhere with full versioning and change management, reducing expensive manual tasks and rework.

Data catalog dashboard

An easily configurable dashboard provides high-level visibility of key data cataloging metrics with drill-down access to the details needed to act, manage and protect.

Metadata harvesting

Schedule ongoing metadata harvesting from the widest array of sources, including reference data and code sets.

Drag-and-drop data mapping

Use our drag-and-drop approach for easy source-to-target mappings to eliminate spreadsheets and the errors that come with them, reducing mapping time and costs by up to 80%.

Version management & change control

Archive and baseline all mapping documentation and view change-comparison reports with built-in versioning and change control.

Sensitive data classification

Categorize sensitive data elements, complete with a sensitive-data dashboard, and drill down into this type of data across the enterprise.

Upstream & downstream data lineage

Generate end-to-end lineage, down to the column level, between repositories and view data flows from source systems to reporting layers, including intermediate transformation and business logic.

Impact analysis

Instantly identify the impact of potential upstream and downstream changes to your data landscape before you take action.

Automated data quality

Integrate data quality capabilities with erwin Data Catalog to automate data profiling and quality assessment, expand data quality visibility, and leverage data quality tools for data observability and remediation.

Reference data management

Centrally map and manage reference data code sets to ensure accuracy and quality across enterprise datastores and applications.

Lifecycle management

Manage and socialize the gathering of functional requirements, mapping design, testing and release management of data movement and transformation projects.

Automation

Speed up data movement and transformation projects, code generation and documentation. Generate ETL/ELT, Data Vault and code for other complex data integration components with plug-in SDKs to accelerate project delivery.

erwin Data Literacy integration

Unite erwin Data Catalog with business glossary management, data stewardship, and a business-friendly data discovery and collaboration experience for impactful data governance.

Model to marketplace reach

From integrating data modeling and data quality, to supporting data and AI governance, to delivering a data marketplace, erwin adds valuable data intelligence capabilities to your data catalog to support your business.

E.ON

We use erwin for the auto-configuration of data pipelines. I did not imagine in 2018 that I would use a data catalog to automatically configure data pipelines, but I can. I can do things that I didn’t even think about when I got started.

Romina Pyplacz Global head of data management and governance, E.ON

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