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, Workday is a source system from which you can extract metadata through a Workday catalog source. A catalog source is an object that represents and contains metadata from the source system.
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, lineage discovery, 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 extraction 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 Workday source system:
After you verify prerequisites, perform the following tasks to extract metadata from Workday:
1Register a catalog source. Create a catalog source object, select Workday, and then select and test the connection
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.
After you run the catalog source job, you view the results in Data Governance and Catalog.
About the Workday catalog source
You can use the Workday catalog source to extract metadata from a Workday source system.
Workday is a cloud-based financial management, enterprise resource planning, and human capital management platform.
Extracted metadata
You can use the Workday catalog source to extract metadata from a Workday source system.
Metadata Command Center extracts the following metadata from a Workday source system:
•Business Object
•Data Source
•Operation
•Operation Entity
•Operation Entity Property
•Report
•Report Entity
•Report Entity Property
•Report Property
•Service
Compatible connectors
Before you configure a Workday catalog source, you must connect to the Workday source system.
Use the Workday Mass Ingestion connector to connect to the Workday source system.
For information about configuring a connection, see Connections.
