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
Data Governance and Catalog shows the metadata you extract from source systems in Metadata Command Center as technical assets. You can use technical assets to perform various catalog functions. For example, 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 consist of data access policies based on defined rules. The rules include data access control policies, data filter policies, and data de-identification policies which leverage metadata context, precedence tiers, and data de-identification techniques. You use data access assets to apply and enforce these access 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.