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Add Meaning to Your Data
Decrypt table and column names with business friendly aliases
Provide meaning and purpose of data assets with descriptions
Describe data with up to 100 custom fields
Capture and Document Relationships
Relationships between tables and data sets is crucial for any reporting and analytics. Those relationships are often unclear and can span across databases. Dataedo reads foreign keys from the database to the data dictionary, allows you to extend this information with manually defined relationships, and visualizes them with ER diagrams.
- Extract foreign keys
- Define additional table relationships
- Visualize table relationships in ERDs
- Define relationships across databases and data sets
Organize Databases with Subject Areas
Data sources in your organization can hold hundreds or thousands of tables and data structures. It might be hard or impossible to make sense of this. Dataedo helps you manage this complexity by allowing you to create subject areas and use them to organize large data sets.
Provide Meaning with Business Glossary
Dataedo allows you to map data dictionary elements to terms in integrated business glossary – a global list of terms and definitions in your organization. This allows you to provide more meaning and definitions to data, add a voice from the business to data assets and make the documentation of data structures easier for IT.
Capture Tribal Knowledge in Central Repository
Dataedo makes it easy to capture tribal knowledge from your team and share it across the organization with central metadata repository.
Build Data Dictionary in Minutes
Dataedo allows you to connect and scan metadata from multiple sources and build data dictionary automatically in a couple of minutes.
- Relational databases
- Cloud databases
- Data warehouses
- Document databases
- JSON and XML documents
- CSV data sets
- Data Lakes
- Any data source with ODBC
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Dataedo Web Catalog
Interactive web data portal
Self-hosted web portal for self-service data & building data community. Create a place where all people in your organization can go to find, learn about, discuss and contribute their findings about data.
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Dataedo HTML Export
Interactive HTML exports
Easily export your documentation into lightweight and easily shareable interactive HTML documents. Self-host them on your drive or any web server.
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PDF & Excel Exports
Export metadata to PDF & Excel
Additionally, you can quickly export your documentation to PDF and Excel files.
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Features
Easy import of schema changes
It’s easy to keep data dictionary up to date with data sources – just connect again and metadata will be synchronized.
Automation with command line
Automate and schedule metadata imports and documentation shares with command line.
Safe for databases
Dataedo does not impact data structures in your source databases. All documentation takes place in the repository.
Benefits
Unlock data in your organization
Data dictionary decrypts data in your organization and often is necessary to be able to use it.
Democratize and promote use of data
With data easier to find and understand, business can work with data on their own, without help of from IT.
Get power of tribal knowledge
No single person knows it all. Get people that understand your data and allow them to collaboratively build documentation of your data in central repository.
Protect knowledge
Did you ever wonder what would happen to your data, analytics, BI, data warehouse if key people left? Would new people be able to take over, how long would that take, and how much would that cost? Data dictionary serves and documentation that protects your knowledge and allows to pass it easily to new people.
Be less dependent on suppliers and key people
Are some people or partners the only gateway to some of your data? Get independence and ask all your people and teams working with and building data assets to get them documented with Dataedo. With that you will decide who and how will make use of your data.
Improve quality of data and reporting
Understanding purpose of tables and columns and how to join tables reduces risk of bugs in SQL and getting incorrect, misleading results.
Remove the (IT) bottleneck of your analytics
With documentation of data, business and analyst community can find and use the data without the support of the IT.
Free up time from key people
When business can be self-reliant, those key data gurus can now spend less time answering questions and preparing simple queries, and can on high value-added work.
Improve performance of your analytics
Allow your people to spend less time looking for data and trying to make sense of it and, and spend more time getting insights and finding patterns.
Improve communication
Central reference documentation of data improves communication between all the parties involved - architects, developers, analysts, developers, business, and various teams and suppliers.
Grow your team hustle-free
Allow new hires get to speed, independently, with comprehensive documentation.
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Use cases
Data Warehousing & BI
Describe the purpose of data warehouse tables, columns and show table relationships for better BI and self-service analytics and reporting.
Self-service Analytics
Share documentation of data sources - purpose of tables and columns and relationships between them to allow self-service analytics to business and analyst community.
Database Development
Document databases as you design them and share the design with every developer.
Data Migration
Document both, source and destination, databases so architects and developers can design and understand the logic for the migration.
Enterprise Architecture
Document complete data model of your organization data assets and explain relationships between databases.
Our customers
"Dataedo is an easy to use facility for managing basic metadata centrally and producing enhanced data dictionaries. Initially we wanted to use it for a single set of system documentation, but we will now employ it for scheduled metadata updates along with multi-user maintenance. I would recommend Dataedo to anyone with similar requirements, and in fact already have."
Charter Court Financial Services
"Dataedo has many features other tools are lacking - ability to document relations that are not set in the DB, rich text descriptions, tracking progress at a glance, grouping objects into topics and keeping track of decommissioned/renamed columns. I would definitely recommend Dataedo to others. It is a great tool."
Accuro Health Insurance
"Healthy Directions is a data driven organization and relies on my team to produce ETL'd data for reporting and analysis. Dataedo has been the perfect tool that has helped the team and organization in understanding the datasets with it's easy to use tool and database documentation. Even non-data users are able to understand the database structure. It's a great tool and have already recommended to others."
Healthy Directions, LLC
"We use Dataedo for documenting the database of our main software. It's a central reference for the developers and the analysts and we share Data Dictionary with third parties who develop BI system. What I like about it is that it's easy to find out what's not documented and a well-done Data-Dictionary in PDF. I would definitely recommend it to others."
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Why our customers love Dataedo?
"We jump started all of our Data Governance efforts using the tool. We documented key databases quickly and easily and published the information to our analyst community."
Sandra Recca
Sr. Director
"Dataedo is improving my work a lot. With documentation, the learning curve is smaller and I can have more time to work."
Nuno Vieira
BI Tech Analyst
"Thanks to Dataedo I spent more time figuring out the connection string to the instance than I did running the report. It was a great experience."
Mike Conroy
Director
"Dataedo is an easy to use facility for managing basic metadata centrally and producing enhanced data dictionaries."
Deborah Crane
Data Quality Manager
"Dataedo helps developers to find descriptions for data very quickly. Seeing documentation progress with every release is really helpful."
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