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Enterprise Discovery Process in Informatica Analyst

You can create, edit, and delete enterprise discovery profiles. You can run an enterprise discovery profile in the Discovery workspace. You need to configure the inference options for column profile and data domain discovery before you run the enterprise discovery profile.
Complete the following steps to perform enterprise discovery in the Analyst tool:
  1. 1. Configure the general properties for the enterprise discovery profile.
  2. 2. Select the data objects from the Model repository that you want to include in enterprise discovery profile.
  3. 3. Import relational data sources from external database connections.
  4. 4. Configure the data inference options and discovery options for the enterprise discovery profile.
  5. 5. Save the changes, and run the enterprise discovery profile.
  6. 6. Monitor the profile run and if required, view the statuses of profile tasks that the Analyst tool runs.
  7. 7. Review the enterprise discovery results summary. The results appear in the Summary and Profiles panels.