Data Catalog: Simplify data access
Centralize and connect all enterprise metadata with a cataloging solution that creates a single source of truth.
The best data catalog solution for enterprise businesses
Accelerate data discovery
Empower users with intuitive search & automated metadata. Fast discovery for insights, decisions, & maximized productivity.
Data-driven culture
Foster data culture with user-friendly access. Enable collaboration & encourage data use for trusted information.
Unlock data's potential
Automated lineage & smart recommendations drive actionable insights, innovation, & growth.
Trusted enterprise data
Ensure data reliability & security with robust governance. Maintain high standards & establish a single source of truth.
Discover your data in seconds
Actian Data Intelligence Platform’s data catalog revolutionizes how you access and manage data. By automating the indexing and updating process, you ensure you always have the most current information at your fingertips. With its user-friendly features, navigating vast data landscapes has never been easier.
- Automatically updates data from all sources.
- Intuitive search engine for simple keyword searches.
- Personalized browsing paths based on past queries.
Automate data documentation
Via powerful knowledge graph technology, add, configure, and overlay documentation properties on your data through a flexible metamodel template. Simply drag & drop your properties, tags, and other metadata into your documentation templates and use our dynamic diagram to visualize your metamodels and their relations with other catalog objects, including domains, data products, custom assets, and more.
Create and manage a common data language
Actian Data Intelligence Platform’s data catalog provides business glossary features to manage a common business vocabulary available across the entire organization. Through an easy-to-use interface that is supported by automation capabilities, the platform allows users to define rules, policies, and KPIs, design reliable glossary models, get suggestions for business terms, view the relations between glossary items, and more.
What is a Smart Data Catalog?
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Our data catalog enables data teams to get a complete view of their data’s lifecycle – from its collection to its use, storage, and preservation over time. Automatically map the relationships between systems, applications, and reports to provide a context-rich data landscape. Our user-friendly lineage graph allows data & business teams to better understand their data, easily identify data transformations, and support regulatory compliance.
Increase data trust
Actian Data Intelligence Platform automatically synchronizes with your data quality solutions, enabling your users to view data quality metrics from the discovery phase of their use cases. Our data catalog helps organizations make better business decisions by enabling data users to quickly detect and take action on a data’s quality to uncover its trustworthiness before an issue arises.
Support your shift to the data mesh framework
Actian Data Intelligence Platform’s data catalog reflects the principles of the data mesh. Our platform empowers organizations to manage and govern their data products at the domain level. Data producers are able to manage, organize, and document their own federated data catalog and can directly share high-value products with data consumers within the Enterprise Data Marketplace.
Enhance discovery with an Enterprise Data Marketplace
The EDM is a one-stop shop to publish, share, and consume the most valuable enterprise data products.
FAQ
A data catalog is a centralized inventory that organizes and manages all your organization’s data assets through metadata. Unlike traditional catalogs that simply list data locations, Actian empowers your teams with an intelligent, AI-powered platform that automatically discovers, indexes, and updates metadata from across your entire data ecosystem.
Actian transforms metadata into actionable intelligence through our federated knowledge graph technology, enabling both technical and business users to find, understand, and trust data instantly.
Actian Data Intelligence Platform uses a knowledge graph architecture to create intelligent, multilateral relationships between data assets, powering seamless data discovery and governance at enterprise scale.
Actian eliminates manual cataloging through comprehensive automation that keeps your catalog current and comprehensive:
- Automated discovery: Built-in scanners automatically index new data assets as they appear across your infrastructure.
- Daily synchronization: Continuous updates ensure metadata reflects current system states without manual intervention.
- Extensive connectivity: 75+ pre-built connectors support Snowflake, Azure, AWS, Tableau, Power BI, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, MongoDB, Databricks, and other enterprise sources.
- Smart classification: AI algorithms automatically categorize and tag data assets based on content analysis.
This automation empowers your data teams to focus on strategic analysis rather than tedious documentation tasks, while ensuring you always have access to the most current data landscape.
Actian transforms data discovery from a technical challenge into an intuitive experience that empowers all users:
- Google-like search interface: Simple keyword searches return relevant, ranked results without requiring technical expertise.
- Natural language queries: Business users can search using familiar terms rather than technical schema names.
- Personalized exploration paths: The platform learns from your usage patterns to suggest relevant datasets and related assets.
- AI-powered recommendations: Intelligent suggestions help users discover connected data products they might have missed.
- Interactive lineage visualization: Select any data element to see its complete transformation journey.
These capabilities democratize data access across your organization, enabling faster decision-making and reducing dependency on technical experts.
Data lineage tracks the complete lifecycle of data from its origin through all transformations to final consumption points. Actian provides field-level lineage visibility that traces individual data elements through complex transformations across your entire ecosystem. We empower your teams through:
- Interactive lineage graphs: Visual, user-friendly interface allows clicking on any field to see its transformation journey.
- Impact analysis capabilities: Quickly identify which downstream systems will be affected by upstream changes.
- Automated relationship mapping: Platform automatically captures connections between databases, applications, ETL processes, and reports.
- Risk reduction: Proactive identification of data dependencies prevents system failures during changes.
This visibility enables precise change management and reduces operational risks across your data infrastructure.
Actian operates as a central intelligence layer that enhances your existing data investments rather than replacing them:
- Quality solution synchronization: Automatically integrates with your current data quality tools to display trust indicators during discovery.
- Quality metrics: Users can assess data trustworthiness before issues arise, improving decision confidence.
- Infrastructure compatibility: Seamless integration with existing data warehouses, lakes, and analytical platforms.
- API-first architecture: Comprehensive APIs enable custom integrations and workflow automation.
- Metadata consolidation: Unifies metadata from disparate systems into a single, coherent view.
This integration approach empowers your organization to leverage existing investments while gaining enhanced visibility and control over your data landscape.
Find, trust and unlock the value of your data
Easy to set up. Easy to use. Easy to scale. Schedule to meet with one of our data experts to:
- Understand how Actian gives access to a comprehensive and reliable data asset landscape.
- Browse through our data discovery software and its features.
- Get pricing information.
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