Enterprise Discovery in Informatica Analyst Overview
Enterprise discovery is the process of discovering column metadata and data domains in multiple data sources from many schemas and external relational connections. You can perform enterprise discovery on both data sources that you imported into the Model repository and data sources from external relational connections.
As a data analyst, you can perform enterprise discovery in the Analyst tool to infer specific metadata characteristics across a large number of data sources. You might also want to view the source data that matches predefined data domains. You can then curate the inferred enterprise discovery results and make the data ready for discovery search and data quality initiatives. Enterprise discovery in the Analyst tool generates a consolidated results summary of the profile results.
Enterprise discovery results include column profile statistics, such as patterns, unique values, and columns with data type conflicts. Data domain discovery identifies source columns that match predefined data domains.
You can choose an operating system profile in Informatica Analyst. After you choose an operating system profile, the Data Integration Service creates and runs the enterprise discovery profiles based on the permission of the operating system user that you define in the operating system profile.