Informatica Administrator Reference Guide for Enterprise Data Catalog > Overview
  

Overview

Enterprise Data Catalog brings together all data assets in an enterprise and presents a comprehensive view of the data assets and data asset relationships. Enterprise Data Catalog is installed within the Informatica domain. The Informatica domain is the administrative unit for the Enterprise Data Catalog environment. The Informatica domain includes a collection of nodes that represent the machines on which the application services run. Application services represent server-based functionality. Enterprise Data Catalog application services include services that you create and system services that are created when you create the domain.
To use Enterprise Data Catalog, you must install the Enterprise Data Catalog services and create a domain. The Enterprise Data Catalog services consist of services to support the domain and application services to perform tasks and manage databases. When you install Enterprise Data Catalog services on a machine, you install all the files for all services.
You can see the following topics to get started after installing Enterprise Data Catalog:
Enterprise Data Catalog Services
Information about the application services in Enterprise Data Catalog.
Informatica Security
Information about securing the Informatica domain from internal and external threats along with the types of security that you can configure. This topic also includes information about supported user security methods and information about securing communication within the domain.
Domain Configuration
Information about configuring the domain services.
Creating the Application Services
Information about creating the different application services and the configuration steps to be performed after creating the services.
Users and Groups
Information about managing users and groups that you can create and configure in the Informatica domain.
Privileges and Roles
Information about the different privileges and roles that you can configure for the users and groups.
Permissions
Information about the permissions that you can configure for the users and groups to access different objects in the Informatica domain.
Note: This document includes basic reference information about Informatica Administrator tasks that you can perform in Enterprise Data Catalog. For more information about the Informatica Administrator concepts and tasks, see the following guides: