Data Preparation
Data preparation is the process of combining, cleansing, transforming, and structuring data from one or more data assets so that data is ready for analysis.
Enterprise Data Catalog uses database connections from Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services to prepare data. After you enable data preparation for a resource, you can prepare data for assets types such as tables and views in Enterprise Data Catalog.
A user who has access to the catalog can prepare data. To prepare data for table and view assets in the resource, a user needs to have read, or read and write permissions for the resource in Catalog Administrator.
Effective in version 10.5.2.1, Data Preparation is available for technical preview in the Catalog tool.
Technical preview functionality is supported for evaluation purposes but is unwarranted and is not supported in production environments or any environment that you plan to push to production. Informatica intends to include the preview functionality in an upcoming release for production use, but might choose not to in accordance with changing market or technical circumstances. For more information, contact Informatica Global Customer Support.
Preparing data
You can prepare data for assets such as tables and views in the resource. Ensure that you must have the necessary source connections created in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services.
Before you prepare data, ensure that you have met the prerequisites in the
Data preparation prerequisites topic.
- 1. From the Search Results page, open the asset that you want to prepare.
The asset opens in the Overview tab.
- 2. In the Overview tab of the asset, click Prepare.
The Catalog tool launches Data Preparation.
- 3. Log into Data Preparation, and prepare the data.