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What is Data Discovery?

Is it possible to scan unstructured data like photographs?

Is your product designed to physically move metadata definitions from one development tool to another ?

Does your product support concurrent access by multiple users at the same time ? What is the ideal number of concurrent users?

Do you offer "scanners" that parse,copy and/or store metadata definitions in a centralized repository ?

Can you compare different versions of objects to one another ?

Does your product support the concept of a "corporate data dictionary"?

Does your product support an IDE or Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)?

 

 

What is Data Discovery?

Data Discovery provides the ability to automatically scan and identify information assets within an organization.
The Metadata Governance Suite offers an extensive list of features and functions that aid the Data Discovery process and autopopulate a metadata repository.

Is it possible to scan unstructured data like photographs?

Yes. The software can scan file systems to detect a variety of image types, and store the metadata associated with images.

Is your product designed to physically move metadata definitions from one development tool to another?

Yes, the Metadata Governance Suite has an import-export capability to move metadata from other applications using industry standard metadata interchange mechanisms such as -

• XMI
• SQL
• Web Services

Does your product support concurrent access by multiple users at the same time ? What is the ideal number of concurrent users?

Yes, the Metadata Governance Suite supports concurrent access. The number of concurrent users is dependent on database response time which, in turn is dependent on multiple factors -

• the type of database that holds the metadata repository
• hardware platform
• network latency
• compute power

Do you offer "scanners" that parse,copy and/or store metadata definitions in a centralized repository?

Yes, the Metadata Governance Suite includes a module named Metadata Crawler which is a physical metadata scanning tool, that can autonomously scan enterprise data landscapes. It is supported by additional scanners that scan networks, systems, databases, applications, file systems, unstructured data ( txt files), semi-structured files (.csv, Excel, XML) or non-network databases (e.g. Access).

Can you compare different versions of objects to one another?

Yes, We can compare changes in physical metadata, profile metadata, statistical metadata, quality metadata, value distributions, lengths distributions, quality metadata, etc. across different versions of objects.

Does your product support the concept of a "corporate data dictionary"?

Yes. the Metadata Governance Suite includes a module named Metadata Crawler which scans the physical data landscape to create a corporate data dictionary. In most cases the descriptive metadata is missing, so we augment the physical metadata with other types of semantic metadata.

Does your product support an IDE or Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)?

Yes, the metadata repository is exposed via a Web-services interface. Other SOA applications can call these Web Services to obtain metadata definitions and descriptions.