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
Lineage Discovery
Builds the complete lineage of a catalog source by recommending endpoint catalog source objects to assign to reference catalog source connections. When you run the catalog source job, Metadata Command Center assigns the reference catalog source connections to CLAIRE recommended endpoint catalog source objects. You can then view the list of CLAIRE recommendations and accept or reject them.
Preview Notice: Effective in the July 2025 release, the Workday catalog source is available for preview. Preview functionality is supported for evaluation purposes but is unwarranted and is not supported in production environments or any environment that you plan to push to production. Informatica intends to include the preview functionality in an upcoming release for production use, but might choose not to in accordance with changing market or technical circumstances. For more information, contact Informatica Global Customer Support.
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, configure the metadata extraction capability, and add filters for metadata extraction.
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.
