In Data Governance and Catalog you can create an asset repository, add business or technical metadata to enrich the data in your source systems, and display the data assets.
You can view the following types of assets in Data Governance and Catalog:
Technical assets
When you run the metadata extraction job in Metadata Command Center, the system extracts the metadata from source systems and displays it in Data Governance and Catalog as technical assets. Use technical assets to perform catalog functions such as searching for data using technical parameters, understanding the lineage of the data, and identifying relationships between the assets. Technical assets include catalog sources, data classifications, databases, columns, views and more.
Business assets
When you document a new asset or add business metadata to your data, you create an asset in Data Governance and Catalog called a business asset. Use business assets to perform governance functions such as collaborating with stakeholders, viewing the audit history of data, and complying with regulatory requirements. Business assets include glossary, policy, domain, data sets, and more.
Data access assets
When you develop actionable policies and rules that grant access to, filter, or de-identify data in your source systems, you create an asset in Data Governance and Catalog called a data access asset. Data access assets are comprised of data access policies based on defined rules, including data access control policies, data filter policies, and data de-identification policies, that leverage metadata context and the precedence tiers and data de-identification techniques that support those policies. You use data access assets to apply and enforce these controls that protect data through multiple methods, including Data Integration mappings when moving data, self-service access to data provided through Data Marketplace, and pushdown of data access control policies into cloud data platforms.