Quest Data Catalog
Quest Data Catalog, part of Quest Data Intelligence and the Quest Trusted Data Management Platform, provides centralized data landscape visibility and metadata management to help you better understand, protect and leverage your data. Catalog, enrich and activate metadata using AI-powered and metadata-driven automation. Deep integration with Quest data quality, data governance, and data marketplace capabilities form the solid foundation required to deliver trusted data pipelines faster and reduce data and AI risks.
Quest earns top 3 ratings across all 5 Gartner® metadata management report use cases
Automate data cataloging with Quest
Quest Data Catalog provides data teams the automated metadata management and centralized data landscape visibility needed to efficiently tackle the data management tasks that reduce data and AI risk and ensure data delivery pipelines are trusted and reliable. Take a look:
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
Automate metadata discovery and harvesting of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data for one unified cataloging and governance approach. Enrich and curate metadata, and auto-generate data mappings, complete with full version control.
Well-integrated data quality
Automate data profiling and quality assessment using catalog metadata and see resulting data quality scores throughout Quest Data Intelligence, in data lineage, impact analysis, semantic mind maps, and used as one of up to nine criteria within automated data trust scoring.
Technical and business-level 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. Switch views and filter lineage for use with business stakeholders.
QuestAI catalog and lineage insights
Take advantage of chat-based QuestAI assistants to get quick answers to business context and governance questions related to your data catalog, data lineage, business glossary, and data marketplace.
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.
Speed catalog development
Use the QuestAI stewardship assistant to onboard new data sources to the
data catalog 10x faster, accelerating data classification and definition.
Quest Data Connectors
Gain needed visibility into your data landscape, automate data lineage, and activate metadata to drive data management efficiency using industry-proven Quest data connectors.
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
Enable visibility and control for migration, modernization and integration projects using included development lifecycle management capabilities.
Why Quest for data cataloging?
Analyst-recognized for its data catalog software and metadata management, Quest Data Intelligence is used by enterprises worldwide, many in heavily regulated industries demanding transparency, accountability, and strong governance. Market-leading data lineage, powerful impact analysis, integration with industry-leading data modeling capabilities, and a proven library of Quest Data Connectors and automation expertise are just a few of the reasons companies choose Quest. With Quest Data Catalog, you’ll have the following capabilities:
An enterprise data catalog
Auto-harvest and curate metadata from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources into an enterprise data catalog for landscape visibility and metadata-driven data management.
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.
AI-powered data stewardship
Onboard new data sources 10x faster and speed delivery of well-defined, well-classified data catalogs with QuestAI data stewardship assistant.
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.
Chat-based QuestAI assistants
Get quick answers to data catalog and data lineage questions through chat-based QuestAI assistants.
Impact analysis
Instantly identify the impact of potential upstream and downstream changes to your data landscape before you take action.
Automated data quality
Leverage catalog metadata
for automated data profiling and quality assessment in Quest
Data Quality and view resulting quality scoring throughout the software.
Keep quality reliable with data observability.
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.
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.
Unified governance
Quest Data Catalog is part of Quest Data Intelligence and the Quest Trusted Data Management Platform, uniting data modeling, data catalog, data quality, data governance, and data marketplace capabilities in one, integrated solution.
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Quest Data Catalog ensures the visibility and automation needed to know your data, reduce data and AI risk, and deliver trusted data pipelines faster.
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