Linking to Enterprise Metadata Overview

Business users might want to document the data elements in Axon for various reasons, such as compliance, standardization, accountability, and monitoring. The business users or analysts might not be aware of all the data elements and the format of technical assets that they own. The users need to collaborate manually with their counterparts to get the required details, identify those data elements, and then document them in Axon. This task can be hectic, error-prone, and vulnerable due to manual human intervention. Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog is master catalog of technical assets and has a data discovery tool that helps reduce the manual human intervention and increase the user productivity. Axon in collaboration with Enterprise Data Catalog can provide a great user experience and automatically bootstrap the content.

Integrate Axon with Enterprise Data Catalog to view links to technical enterprise assets in systems, glossaries, and data sets. After integration, Axon fetches Enterprise Data Catalog resources and fields and displays them in the Resources and Physical Fields facets. You can link Axon objects and Enterprise Data Catalog assets manually or by using bulk upload relationship templates. You can link resources to systems. You can link fields to attributes in data sets. Axon uses Informatica technology to recommend attributes to which you can link the fields.

To view a field from Enterprise Data Catalog that you linked to an attribute, navigate to Physical Fields on the Attributes tab of a Data Set facet. In the Relationships tab of a Data Set facet, you can click Show Recommendations to view the related attributes that Axon recommends for possible linking with fields. Axon displays attribute recommendations only if the associated fields are interlinked in Enterprise Data Catalog. You also need to ensure that you provide the accurate Axon Resource Name parameter value when you configure access to Enterprise Data Catalog.

You might see some masked data based on the segments that are assigned to you. If you are assigned only to a particular segment, you can see the data sets, attributes, systems, and glossaries that belong to the segment. If a physical field is linked to a glossary that belongs to a segment that you cannot access, you can see that the data is masked for the glossary.