Azure Data Catalog

Azure Data Catalog has helped our data governance and BI efforts. It's an enterprise-level data dictionary that grows with our data ecosystem. We build cloud-native apps with data management tools. And we get insights quickly and with less overhead, and the drag-and-drop interface is one of the best parts of it. Drag-and-drop is easy so that we can deliver quickly. Visual effects make it more flexible. One thing to note is that working on it requires some skill to maintain the integrity of all the components. Another improvement would be lowering the licensing cost.

Azure Data Catalog has greatly improved our data searches. Less time is spent on finding assets, and we are able to get optimum value for our available data assets. Different teams are able to add tags to already registered data sources and even register new sources contributing to the discovery of data.

Well suited if your teams are spending more time on looking for data than analysing and finding insights. Azure data catalogue enables quick discovery of data and works with most of the existing systems and tools you have in place. People across the business can get more understanding and context of any data asset in the organisation. Possibilities to shine a light on dark data stuck in silos.

Azure Data Catalog helps us solve data discovery problems brilliantly. Our organization created a single source of truth for our data, which allowed us to develop BI and data science solutions. We can drag tables or data sources to manage workflow. Some of the more complicated data normalization or standardization issues need to be simplified, and I'd like to see that happen.

We have a large set of data which our customers periodically look for for various in-depth analysis. Azure platform makes it easier for us to register & catalogue all available information easily. This way when the customer actually made a sudden request or they want to access sensitive information on their own, the data is readily presented to them. Needless to say we use this mined and catalogue data for a variety of inhouse training and other improvement initiatives.

Overall Azure Data Catalog is best product from Microsoft. Azure Data Catalog makes data sources easily discoverable and understand, any user can annotate by providing tags and description. Microsoft provides lot's of features in that. It's user friendly and reliable product.
The cloud upload/download can take a lengthy amount of time.

It is great for teams to get started and get an established process onboarded across the organization. But I feel as teams and organizational practices evolve, a more robust tool like AWS is better suited. In my personal experience. I also feel there could have been a better knowledge library or community established (for example Salesforce community) to engage with current users and troubleshoot.

This program works very well. Small tweaks or simplifications would improve user experience for new employees. We usually have to spend some time and have short training sessions with anyone who is new to the application, but they seem to catch on quickly. I think that can be attributed to the interface and help features. Overall, works well and allows a customizable organization.

One of the most useful features is the search engine of the service. It is like Google search but for the dataset that we own. Although it is not the only database-management-like system that provides such a feature; nevertheless, the filters that come along the way for each search do make a great job outstanding querying the data.

Azure Data Catalog helps to manipulate data efficiently. It is a fantastic fully managed cloud service that can be used to get a good hold of data sources. Whatever role a person is in, it makes understand data very easily. Certain formats of a document cannot be imported or exported. But mostly it's a great product and you will love it for sure.