Metadata Management
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The Algoreus Engram presents a clear picture of data flow in and out of datasets.
It allows for thorough impact and root-cause analysis, providing a traceable audit trail for compliance and auditability. Metadata management inside Engram grants access to structured data, describing, locating, and explaining data, which simplifies the retrieval, usage, and management of datasets.
Engram Metadata management also permits users to modify the metadata for datasets. Users can directly add, remove, and update tags and business properties in the UI. It enables users to establish a favored dictionary of tags to ensure team-wide uniformity when updating metadata.
Metadata management inside Engram exhibits a graphical representation of an entity's lineage. This lineage shows all data access of an entity for a specified time range, detailing the origin of that access.
Prompt, current, and smooth capture of technical, operational, and business metadata, facilitating improved traceability of all datasets.
Through its lineage use, it enables the understanding of the impact of dataset changes on other datasets, processes, or queries.
Tracks data flow across enterprise systems and data lakes.
Provides viewing and updating of complete metadata on datasets, enabling traceability to resolve data issues and improve data quality.
Supports Standardization, Governance, and Compliance Needs
Provides IT with the traceability required in governing datasets and implementing compliance rules through seamless integration with other extensions.
Metadata management contains consistent definitions of metadata, reconciling differences in terminologies.
Assists in understanding the lineage of your crucial business data.
Blends Metadata Analytics and Integrations
Visualize how your datasets are created, accessed, and processed.
Search functionality in Engram metadata management is provided by an interface similar to popular search engines:
In the text box, you enter your search terms:
Multiple search terms can be searched by separating them with a space character.
Search the metadata of entities by using either a complete or partial name followed by an asterisk *
Engram Metadata management searches tags, properties, and schema of Algoreus datasets.
For example, if you have just started Algoreus and enabled metadata management, you could enter a search term such as a* k*, which will find all entities that begin with the letter a or k.
Clicking on a name in the search results list will take you to details for a particular entity. Details are provided on the Engram Metadata and Lineage tabs.
The Engram tab provides lists of the System Tags, Business Tags, Schema, Business Properties, and System Properties found for the entity. The values shown will vary depending on the type of entity and each individual entity.
You can add business tags to any entity by clicking the plus button in the UI. You can also remove tags by hovering over the tag and clicking the x. You can add and remove Business Properties for the dataset as well, a useful feature for storing additional dataset details for others to see.
The Engram tab displays the relationship between an entity and the programs interacting with it. As different lineage diagrams can be created for the same entity, depending on the specific set of programs selected to construct the diagram, a blue arrow-shaped button is used to cycle through the different lineage diagrams that a particular entity participates in.
A date menu on the left side of the diagram allows you to control the time range that the diagram displays. By default, the last seven days are used, though a custom range can be specified, in addition to common time ranges (two weeks to one year).