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New features and enhancements

The April 2025 release of Metadata Command Center includes the following new features and enhancements.

New catalog sources

This release includes the following new catalog sources:
For information about catalog sources, see the Catalog Source Configuration help.

Enhanced catalog sources

This release includes the following enhancements to catalog sources:
Amazon S3
You can use the AssumeRole via IAM user authentication to run data profiling and data quality jobs.
For more information, see Amazon S3.
Microsoft Azure Data Factory
Activities that don't include lineage information are categorized as Control Activity in the model hierarchy.
For more information, see Microsoft Azure Data Factory.
Microsoft Azure SQL Server
You can use Service Principal authentication to connect to a Microsoft Azure SQL Server source system.
For more information, see Catalog Source Configuration.
SAP ERP
You can perform connection assignment to view the lineage between Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services Data Integration mappings and an SAP ERP data source.
For more information, see Catalog Source Configuration.
SAP HANA Database
You can extract metadata for calculation views created in the HANA Deployment Infrastructure (HDI).
For more information, see Catalog Source Configuration.
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
This release includes the following enhancements:
For more information, see Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services.
Oracle Business Intelligence
You can extract metadata from Publisher Report, Publisher Data Model, and other additional objects.
For more information, see Oracle Business Intelligence.
Tableau
This release includes the following enhancements:
For more information, see Catalog Source Configuration.
Databricks
You can choose from the following external secrets manager authentication tools to run data profiling and data quality jobs:
For more information about how to configure Secrets Manager in Administrator, see Organization Administration.

Configure additional data capabilities

You can configure the following additional data capabilities on catalog sources:
For more information about catalog sources, see Catalog Source Configuration.

Profiling enhancements

This release includes the following profiling enhancements:
Databricks
You can run profiles on the metadata extracted from multiple catalogs.
SAP ERP
You can run profiles on database views and CDS views.
Filters based on asset types for data profiling
You can define data profiling filters based on specific asset types for the following catalog sources:
For more information, see Catalog Source Configuration.
Wildcards for data profiling filters
When you specify data profiling filters, you can use question marks or asterisks as wildcard characters for the following catalog sources:
For more information, see Catalog Source Configuration.

Incremental metadata extraction

You can now run incremental metadata extraction jobs on the following catalog sources:
A full metadata extraction extracts all objects from the source to the catalog. An incremental metadata extraction considers only the changed and new objects since the last successful catalog source job run. Incremental metadata extraction doesn’t remove deleted objects from the catalog and doesn’t extract metadata of code-based objects.
For more information, see Catalog Source Configuration.

Design workflows

You can now leverage the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) infrastructure to design multi-step approval workflows in Metadata Command Center. You can design workflows that suit your organizational needs and configure events for the workflows in Metadata Command Center. The workflows start when you work with assets in Data Governance and Catalog.
Important: After you upgrade to the April 2025 release, you need to redesign your workflows in Metadata Command Center. You can use predefined workflows that Informatica provides or build your own workflows.
For more information about designing workflows, see Workflows.

Configure business name and description assignment for glossary association

When you configure glossary association, you can choose to assign business names and descriptions to technical assets. If you assign business names and descriptions, you can choose to apply them only to unassigned assets and retain current assignments, or allow the overwrite of existing assignments.
For more information about assigning business names and descriptions to technical assets, see Glossary Association.

Export lookup tables

You can export lookup tables that you use in data classification.

Enable recommendations below the confidence score threshold for auto-acceptance

When you enable auto-acceptance for glossary association, you can choose to enable or disable recommendations below the Confidence Score Threshold for Auto-Acceptance. Specify a Confidence Score Threshold for Recommendations to get recommendations between 80 and your confidence score threshold for auto-acceptance, or between 80 and 100 if you don't enable auto-acceptance.
For more information about enabling and disabling recommendations, see Glossary Association.

Preview data classifications

You can preview details of a data element or a data entity when you configure data classification for a catalog source.