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Metadata Management
November 2022
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Great metadata management with more visibility and great technical support
Our organization is a service provider as compared to an end-user. We have helped multiple organizations onboard onto data management using these... Read more →
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  • "I have no idea what the price actually is. It is probably not going to be the cheapest, but it is a pretty stable and robust platform from the backend standpoint."

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    What do you like most about Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog?
    Top Answer:The solution scales well.
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    What needs improvement with Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog?
    Top Answer:The initial setup is very, very difficult. The solution is quite expensive. I would like them to extend the coverage to other technologies like web services and programming languages.
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    What is your primary use case for Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog?
    Top Answer:The product is used for data governance. It's a tool for data governance, a technical metadata dictionary, and a data lineage repository.
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    Also Known As
    Informatica EDC, Informatica Enterprise Information Catalog, Enterprise Information Catalog
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    Overview

    Informatica Enterprise Information Catalog provides a machine-learning-based discovery engine to collect data assets across the enterprise while increasing the understanding of those data assets through a graph-based enterprise information catalog. Powered by Informatica’s unique metadata services engine, Enterprise Information Catalog enables business analysts and data stewards to find all types of data across the enterprise; discover relationships among them; enrich data with business glossary terms and crowdsourced annotations; and understand the provenance, quality, and usage of their data.

    Our Semantic AI platform Semaphore, provides the semantic layer in your digital ecosystem so you can manage knowledge models, automatically extract and classify the context and meaning from structured and unstructured information, and generate rich semantic metadata.

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    Sample Customers
    AIA Singapore, Mattel
    HP, Amgen, Merck, KPMG, Thomson Reuters
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Government9%
    Insurance Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Comms Service Provider17%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Retailer7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise75%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise76%
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    Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is ranked 3rd in Metadata Management with 5 reviews while Smartlogic Semaphore is ranked 15th in Metadata Management. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is rated 8.4, while Smartlogic Semaphore is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog writes "An enterprise-scale solution with a pretty robust set of tools for scanning a variety of information sources". On the other hand, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is most compared with AWS Glue, Collibra Catalog, Denodo, Alation Data Catalog and Informatica PowerCenter, whereas Smartlogic Semaphore is most compared with PoolParty Semantic Suite.

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