Technical assets are representations of data elements, technical data sets, data containers, and catalog sources that Metadata Command Center extracts from a source system.
Technical assets in Data Governance and Catalog can be broadly categorized in the following manner:
•Data elements are the smallest unit of data in a source system. Columns, files, fields are examples of data elements.
•Technical data sets are a collection of data elements. For example, a table is a technical data set as it is a collection of columns.
•Data containers hold the data for an application. Examples of data containers are schema and database.
•Catalog sources are objects that represent the source system from which you extract metadata. You can create catalog sources in Metadata Command Center to extract metadata from source systems like Amazon S3 and Oracle.