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Metadata Governance Suite : Feature List



The GIDS Metadata Governance Suite provides extensive features and functionality associated with
  • Data Discovery
  • Metadata Management

Data Discovery Features and Functionality

Data Discovery provides the ability to automatically scan and identify information assets within an organization. The Metadata Management Suite offers the following list of features to aid the Data Discovery Process.


# Requirement Available Comments
1 Create a Metadata Repository without significant manual involvement Yes
2 Scan structured databases of interest Yes
3 Scan unstructured data of interest Yes
4 Scan semi-structured data No In development (beta). 
5 Scan data models Yes
6 Scan XSD/ XML data Yes
7 Scan 3rd Party Metadata Yes
8 Populate the metadata repository automatically
 Yes
9 Provide web access to the metadata repository to business users
 Yes
10 Support metadata searches across entire data landscape
 Yes
11 Continuously monitor the metadata environment for changes Yes
12 Create metadata reports on demand Yes

Based on customer requests, the Global IDs Metadata Governance Suite also includes many additional application modules in Data Discovery. Some of these are highlighted below.

# Requirement Available Comments
1 Scanner for Program Code
 No In planning phase.
2 Scanner for SQL Code
 No In planning phase.
3 Scanner for COBOL Copybooks
 No In development (beta).
4 Scanner for Intranets
 No In planning phase.
5 Scanner for WSDLs
 No In planning phase.
6 Scanner for Ontologies
 No In development.
7 Scanner for Networks
 Yes
8 Scanner for Systems
 Yes Requires some degree of manual input
9 Scanner for Applications
 Yes
10 Scanner for File Systems
 Yes

We are interested in providing our customers with a large list of scanners so that they can increase the transparency of their systems environment. If you have any suggestions for additional types of scanners that would be useful to you, please use the feedback form and send us your ideas.
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