Collaborate with your team through
Data Community module
and post comments, ratings, warnings, and answer questions
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Create documentation with Dataedo Desktop or Dataedo Web Catalog
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Publish documentation to the community
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Data Dictionary
Definition and description of structure of tables and semi-structured objects.
Populate data dictionary automatically with metadata connectors
Describe data objects and their elements
Provide aliases for confusing names
Describe objects using rich text
Register and define objects manually
Data dictionary consists of:
Tables and columns
Views and columns
JSON documents and hierarchy of fields/objects
CSV documents soon
Cubes, dimensions and measures soon
Primary and unique keys
Dataedo Online Docs
With Dataedo Online Docs you can securely publish your documentation on publish.dataedo.com and
provide access to specified users.
HTML Export
HTML Export is a static export of Dataedo documentation into lightweight and easily sharable
interactive HTML documents. They can be self-hosted on your drive or any web server.
Define additional descriptive fields on top of built-in description and title/alias to add more meaning and
metadata to your data.
Business Glossary
Build a glossary of business terms and metrics and map it to the data.
Catalog of terms, policies and rules and their definitions
Hierarchy and relationships of glossary elements
Mapping of terms to assets in data dictionary – tables and columns
Two way navigation between Business Glossary and Data Dictionary
Schema Change Tracking
Track, analyze and comment on changes in schema of your databases.
Sensitive Data Discovery
Discover and tag sensitive data in entire data catalog, for internal and regulatory purposes (GDPR,
CCPA).
Data community
Data community feature helps build a community around your data and allow everyone to contribute to
your knowledge database.
Allow everyone to comment on all assets in the catalog
Organize discussions in threads
Collect feedback with data asset rating
Add warnings to data assets
Keep track of work to be done with TODO tickets and their status
Dataedo Web Catalog
Self-hosted web application designed as go-to place for everyone working with data, or those who would like
to get started, to get answers and share their insights.
Live access to documentation in repository
Interactive diagrams
Advanced faceted search
Editing descriptions and fields
Discussions, comments, notes
Rating of data assets
Authentication
Metadata scanners
Dataedo is equipped with multiple metadata scanners that connect to various database technologies, extract
data structures and metadata and load them into the repository. See the list of available connectors below.
Additionally we also allow you to import a schema through ODBC connectors.
Dataedo features three types of description fields:
Descriptions - Every object in Dataedo repository has a description field. There are two types of
descriptions - plain text and rich text. They can be used for example to explain
where the data for particular column comes from and how it’s calculated.
Titles/aliases - Table and column names aren’t always self-explanatory. Dataedo gives you the
ability to create meaningful titles for them. This title will be added after the
name of an object in the export. For instance: invoices_tab (Documents).
Custom fields - allow to define additional descriptive fields on top of built-in description and
title/alias to add more meaning and metadata to your data. You can create up to 100
custom fields, depending on your plan.
Titles & descriptions
Dataedo Data Doc feautres two types of description fields:
Descriptions - Every object in Dataedo repository has a description field. There are two types of
descriptions - plain text and rich text. They can be used for example to explain
where the data for particular column comes from and how it’s calculated.
Titles/aliases - Table and column names aren’t always self-explanatory. Dataedo gives you the
ability to create meaningful titles for them. This title will be added after the
name of an object in the export. For instance: invoices_tab (Documents).
Data Profiling
Data Profiling module allows you to look into the actual data stored in the tables and analyze how
many null, empty, distinct values there are in each field, what are the min, max
and average values and list most popular values. This information can be saved
in the repository and is easily accessible in Web Catalog and Desktop, making it
even easier for everyone to understand the tables and columns.
Data Lineage
Data Lineage module allows you to manually configure and browse how data flows between
your objects and data sources. Data Lineage in Dataedo contains two parts. You can design flows using
Dataedo Desktop and browse diagrams using Dataedo Web Catalog.
Repository
Metadata Repository is a database that stores all the metadata managed by Dataedo. It can have one of two
forms:
File repository - stored locally on your computer drive
Server repository - self hosted SQL Server or Azure SQL Database
Command line
Launch import & exports from command line.
File repository
Store your metadata as a file on your drive.
1 database connector
Dataedo Data Doc allows you to connect to one selected type of data source - i.e. SQL Server,
PostgreSQL, MySQL, and more. If you want to document multiple data sources, choose
other plan.
Unlimited user accounts
Data Stewards (Pro/Enterprise)
Data Stewards (or Editors) are users that can build the data catalog and document
data using Dataedo Desktop and Dataedo Web Catalog.
Data Stewards come with Dataedo Pro or Dataedo Enterprise subscription plan.
Community Users (Enterprise Viewers)
Community Users (or Enterprise Viewers) are users that can browse and search Dataedo
Web
Catalog
or Dataedo HTML Plus, and from 9.1 also contribute to the
community with comments, ratings, warnings, post and answer
questions (using Data Community module).
Enterprise Viewers are purchased as part of Dataedo Enterprise subscription plan.
Free Viewers
Viewers have read only access to documentation exported with:
Dataedo HTML Basic
PDF
Excel
Documentation history
Dataedo stores information about who, when, and how changed the values in descriptions, titles, and Custom Fields.
Onboarding manager
Email communication & unlimited video sessions with our Customer Success Manager.
For each purchase of the Data Catalog Creator license, you get 5 Explorer licenses included in the price. If you need more Explorers, you can purchase additional licenses separately.
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