erwin® Data Literacy
by Quest®

erwin® Data Literacy by Quest® provides the data
governance and consumer-friendly data discovery
and collaboration needed to raise data literacy andmaximize the business impact of your data. Pairedwith erwin Data Catalog by Quest, erwin Data Literacy
gives IT, data governance teams and business users
visibility of the enterprise data meaningful for theirroles and the business context and governance toknow how to best use and protect it.
From business glossary management and data
stewardship workflows to simple-to-use datamarketplace, asset discovery and collaboration
capabilities, erwin Data Literacy arms yourorganization with the knowledge and data
accessibility required to be fluent andproductive in the use of your data.

Key Features
erwin Data Literacy fuels data governance programsand enables data users across your organization to
become data literate and more productive with data
through the following key features:• Flexible metamodel and role-based
customization — Tailor erwin Data Literacy to yourorganization’s unique data governance framework.
Leverage and customize out-of-the-box businessassets and easily create new ones that best support
your business. Efficiently create and assign access,governance tasks, workflows and notifications for key
organizational roles, such as data stewards and data
owners. Ensure data users only have access to assets
required for their roles.

Benefits:• Make high-value, trusted data easily
discoverable, understandable andaccessible across your organization• Reduce risk and fuel a data-literate culture
by easily tailoring a business-centric data
governance framework to your enterprise• Empower data governance teams withthe capabilities needed to govern data
assets, assess data quality, and engage
and collaborate with data users• Identify data connectivity, implications
and impacts across the enterprise tobetter manage change• Give business context to physicalmetadata with business glossary
authoring and workflows, included
industry terms and erwin Data Modelerby Quest naming standards integration• Speed creating and managing agovernance framework, associating
assets, and discovering and managing
sensitive data by leveraging AI andother automation capabilities• Help mitigate a wide range of risks toprovide regulatory peace of mind
• Fuel data governance, extend
organizational data literacy and build
data trust through data intelligenceMake it simple for data users to shop for high-value, trusted data and find, understand and collaborate on enterprise data assets. Filtereddiscovery results deliver data literacy visualizations, business and governance context, and all related assets to raise data literacy quickly.

• Data stewardship and ownership — Empower
governance teams with easy access to businessasset details, workflows, asset history, related files,
parties involved and the ability to move assets
forward and backward in a governance workstream.
Manage governance progress with an interactive
data stewardship dashboard providing a bird’s eyeview and drill-down detail.
• Business glossary management — Build glossaries
of business terms in taxonomies with synonyms,acronyms and relationships describing yourorganization’s data assets. Speed deployment
with preloaded industry terms. Publish approved
standards organization-wide for clarity and to flag
regulatory-sensitive terms.
• Policy management — Create, maintain andpublish information policies, and aligned roles
and responsibilities, to raise visibility acrossyour enterprise and improve compliance.
• Rule management — Reduce regulatory risk
and understand change impacts by defining
business rules for creating, using and managing
business terms.

2• Sensitive data discovery — Use erwin AIMatch
to auto-match business and technical assets, andspeed identifying, tagging and managing sensitive
data elements (PII, GDPR, CCPA and more). Bulk
classify all related assets leveraging lineage andmind map visualizations.
• Enterprise tags — Tag assets with hashtags tospeed discovery, organize for analysis and readyfor automation. View assets assigned to a specific
tag in list form or in a mind map.
• Intuitive asset search and discovery —A consumer-like, dynamic search experience makes
it easy for non-technical users to quickly find andidentify the best assets for their specific needs
based on literacy visualizations, community ratingsand contextual information all within reach.
• Data marketplace — Make it easy for all data
users to shop for, compare and request accessto governed enterprise datasets and AI models.
Automated data value scoring, reviews and ratings
point users to high-value, trusted data quickly.

Instantly view relationships between technical and business assets with erwin Data Literacy mind maps. Drill-down and filter capabilities,
combined with sensitive data classifications and data quality scoring, ensure data users are well-informed to take action.

• Data literacy visualizations — Use drill-down mind
maps to understand business asset relationships
with physical, logical and governance metadata andleverage detailed data lineage to chart the courseand transformations of data from source-to-target
throughout your organization.
• Data quality visibility — Aid data fitness
assessment, spot quality issues and build datatrust by giving data governance teams and data
users visibility of data quality scoring within asset
search results and literacy visualizations.
• User engagement and collaboration — Captureand share organizational data knowledge among
all data users with asset ratings and reviews.
Strengthen communication and partnership
between business users, data owners and stewards
with built-in chat and issue tracking capabilities.

• Integration with erwin Data Catalog —Automate creating and maintaining a detailed
metadata landscape to underpin data governancewith up-to-date business and technical metadata.
• Licensing and deployment — On-premises andhosted deployment options are available with easy
SAML 2.0 integration.

About Quest
Quest creates software solutions that make thebenefits of new technology real in an increasingly
complex IT landscape. From database and systems
management, to Active Directory and Microsoft
365 migration and management, and cybersecurity
resilience, Quest helps customers solve their next
IT challenge now. Quest Software. Where next
meets now.

• Impact analysis — Plan for data landscapechange by leveraging real-time impact diagrams
linking core data elements to the businessglosssary, related databases, processes,applications and beyond.

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