Metadata discovery in biGENIUS-X
With the biGENIUS-X Discovery App, your team can automatically recognize, analyze, and document data sets in your organization.
Extract and utilize your metadata with ease
Gain transparency about existing data sources, their structures, relationships and quality to enable well-founded decisions and optimize data management.
Automatic discovery and cataloging
Easily identify and document your data sources with automated scanning and classification. The Discovery App streamlines metadata extraction, reducing manual effort and ensuring a comprehensive inventory of available datasets.
Capturing relevant metadata
Extract key metadata attributes including table structures, relationships, and data types for seamless integration into biGENIUS-X. Standardized metadata ensures consistency, improves traceability, and accelerates your modeling process.
Support for all common databases
Extract metadata from a wide range of databases and data platforms in diverse environments. Whether working with traditional relational databases or modern cloud-based solutions, you can efficiently catalogue and utilize your data assets.
biGENIUS-X Discovery App
Standardized metadata that you can use directly in your biGENIUS-X Project, and across your organization.
Discover and extract source system data
The biGENIUS-X Discovery App enables you to explore and extract metadata from various source systems. You can easily configure and initiate discovery scans, selecting specific databases or file types to analyze. The app guides you through a step-by-step process to catalog data assets efficiently, ensuring that relevant metadata is captured for further use.
If you work with Databricks, the Discovery App integrates with Unity Catalog, allowing you to extract metadata directly without relying on intermediary parquet files.
The biGENIUS Discovery App can also be integrated into your CI/CD pipeline to automatically extract the metadata from your source system.
Option to use DataHub
In addition to the biGENIUS-X Discovery App, you have the flexibility to perform metadata discovery using DataHub, an open-source platform.
Whether using biGENIUS-X Discovery App or DataHub, you can extract and standardize metadata efficiently to support downstream data modeling and analytics.
Model your data solutions with extracted metadata
Once metadata is extracted, it can be directly utilized in biGENIUS-X to design and model your data solution. The standardized metadata structure simplifies the modeling process, allowing teams to build scalable, well-documented data solutions with greater efficiency. By automating metadata discovery and integration, biGENIUS-X ensures that your data models remain accurate.
Whether you are optimizing existing data pipelines or designing new data products, the extracted metadata serves as a reliable foundation for a successful data solution.
Future-proof your data with biGENIUS-X today.
Accelerate and automate your analytical data workflow with comprehensive features that biGENIUS-X offers.