You can use Metadata Command Center to extract metadata from a source system.
A source system is any system that contains data or metadata. For example, MicroStrategy is a source system from which you can extract metadata through MicroStrategy catalog source with Metadata Command Center. A catalog source is an object that represents and contains metadata from the source system.
Before you extract metadata from a source system, register the source system with Metadata Command Center to create the catalog source. Then you configure capabilities for the catalog source. A capability is a task that Metadata Command Center can perform, such as metadata extraction or data profiling.
Before you extract metadata from a source system, you first create and register a catalog source that represents the source system. Then you configure capabilities for the catalog source. A capability is a task that Metadata Command Center can perform, such as metadata extraction, data profiling, data classification, or glossary association.
When Metadata Command Center extracts metadata, Data Governance and Catalog displays the extracted metadata and its attributes as technical assets. You can then perform tasks such as analyzing the assets, viewing lineage, and creating links between those assets and their business context.
The following table describes the capabilities of the catalog source:
Capability
Description
Data Classification
Data classification is the process of identifying and organizing data into relevant categories based on the functional meaning of the data. Classifying data can help your organization manage risks, compliance, and data security.
Glossary Association
You can associate terms that are in the glossary with technical assets to provide user-friendly business names to technical assets. Glossary Association automatically associates glossary terms with technical assets or recommends glossary terms that you can manually associate with technical assets in Data Governance and Catalog.
Extraction and view process
To extract metadata from a source system, configure the catalog source and run the catalog source job in Metadata Command Center. Then view the results in Data Governance and Catalog.
The following image shows the process to extract metadata from a source system:
After you verify prerequisites, perform the following tasks to extract metadata from MicroStrategy:
1Register the source system. Register the MicroStrategy source system with Metadata Command Center to create the catalog source.
2Configure the catalog source. Specify the runtime environment and configure parameters for metadata extraction. Optionally, add filters to include or exclude source system assets from metadata extraction. You can also configure other capabilities such as data profiling and quality, data classification, or glossary association.
3Optionally, associate stakeholders. Associate users with technical assets, giving the users permission to perform actions determined by their roles.
4Run or schedule the catalog source job.
5Optionally, if the catalog source job generates referenced asset objects, you can assign a connection to referenced source system assets.
You can view the lineage with object references without performing connection assignment. After connection assignment, you can view the objects.
After you run the catalog source job, you view the results in Data Governance and Catalog.
About the MicroStrategy catalog source
You can use the MicroStrategy catalog source to extract metadata from the MicroStrategy source system.
MicroStrategy is an enterprise business intelligence application software and a source system from which you can extract metadata about MicroStrategy business intelligence objects, such as dashboards, scorecards, highly formatted reports.
Extracted metadata
You can use the MicroStrategy catalog source to extract metadata from the MicroStrategy source system.
Metadata Command Center extracts the following metadata from the MicroStrategy source system:
