Introduction to MicroStrategy catalog sources
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 a MicroStrategy catalog source. A catalog source is an object that represents the source system from which you can extract metadata and data facts.
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.
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.