Azure Data Catalog
Get more value from your enterprise data assets.
OVERVIEW
Optimize how you catalog and use data
- Spend less time looking for data and more time analyzing it. Data Catalog is a cloud-based enterprise metadata catalog that makes data asset discovery straightforward. It’s a fully managed service that lets analysts, data scientists, and data developers register, enrich, discover, understand, and consume data sources.
- Find the data you need and use it in the tools you choose. Your data stays where you want it, and Data Catalog helps you discover and work with it where you want, with an intuitive user experience.
- Increase broad adoption and continuous value creation across your data ecosystem. Data Catalog helps you get tips, tricks, and unwritten rules into an experience where everyone can contribute and derive value. When you discover a data source, you can understand its usage and intent, provide your informed insights into the catalog, and enable a virtuous cycle of use.
- Democratize data asset discovery and shine light on the dark data within your organization.
Features
Reduce search time
Discover data assets—and their potential. Connect IT and the business, allowing everyone to contribute their insights. Control who can discover registered data assets.
Save time
Spend less time looking for data, and more time getting value from it.
Register enterprise data assets
Manage, organize, and protect valuable information from across the business.
Put your data to work
Discover data assets and reveal their potential.
Draw insights from the whole organization
Capture tribal knowledge to make data more understandable.
Facilitate expert and non-expert input
Bridge the gap between IT and the business, allowing everyone to contribute.
Choose how you use Data Catalog
Let your data live where you want it and connect with the tools you prefer.
Govern access to your organization’s data
Control who can discover registered data assets.
Tailor Data Catalog to your needs
Integrate into existing tools and processes with open REST APIs.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
PRICING
Data Catalog pricing
No upfront cost. No termination fees.
RESOURCES
Documentation and resources
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