erwin® Data Intelligenceby Quest®
erwin® Data Intelligence by Quest® combines
data catalog, data quality, data literacy and data
marketplace capabilities to make high-value, trusted
data assets and AI models easier to find, understand,govern, score and share across your enterprise.
Harmonizing data management with data and AI
governance, erwin Data Intelligence provides theautomation and data landscape visibility to fuel areliable, high-quality data pipeline. Data assets acrossthe enterprise are stored in one central data catalog
governed, understandable with business context,and easily accessible through a consumer-like data
marketplace and asset discovery experience for alldata consumers. From IT, to governance teams, tobusiness stakeholders, all have the data intelligence
to manage, maximize and protect your enterprise’s
most valuable asset - your data.

Key features
The automated meta-driven approach of erwin DataIntelligence enables enterprise data visibility andmanagement, data and AI governance, data literacy,and efficient data products delivery through thefollowing key features::• Automated metadata harvesting, cataloging andcuration — Harvest detailed technical metadatafrom a broad range of metadata sources. Use
included erwin Standard Data Connectors byQuest to ingest and auto-document data-at-rest
from common industry JDBC-compliant DBMS andflat file metadata. Add optional erwin Smart Data
Connectors by Quest to harvest more complex
data-at-rest sources, as well as data-in-motion
metadata from ETL/ELT, procedural and scripting
code, BI/reporting environments, and cloudenvironments and applications.

Benefits:• Make high-value, trusted data easily
discoverable, understandable andaccessible across your organization• Enable a business-centric data
governance framework that fits
your business• Provide IT, data governance teams
and business users the data visibility
and literacy to better manage, protect
and use data
• Tackle AI governance with centralized
governance of models and data, data
observability to catch data drifts early,
and compliance documentation• Auto-generate detailed data lineage
from source to target, including datatransformations, and use impact
analysis to smartly plan for change• Build data trust and limit operational risk
with integrated data quality visibility andautomated data profiling, scoring, data
observability and remediation• Unite business context and technicalmetadata through business glossary
and stewardship workflows, leveraging
pre-loaded industry terms and templates,
integration of data modeling naming
standards and AIMatch capabilities• Auto-harvest and keep cataloged
metadata current, with versioning andchange control, using an extensive data
connectors library• Pair with erwin Data Modeler by Quest
to accelerate data products delivery frommodel to marketplaceerwin Data Intelligence provides the visibility to understand, manage, protect and best leverage data across the organization. Data lineage,
semantic mind maps and dashboards, such as the erwin Data Catalog dashboard, make it easy to contextualize your data landscape at a highlevel as well as drill into data details.

• Centralized metadata-driven mapping with
automation support for most ETL and data
asset technologies — Accelerate the creationof mappings through drag-and-drop and automapping capabilities, eliminating manual workand costly errors seen with the traditional Excel
approach. Efficiently transform and move data intight alignment with business-driven requirementsfrom a single, unified platform.
• Intelligent data lineage and impact analysis —Drill into interactive, on-demand data lineage toquickly understand all data elements within the data
landscape from data sources to end targets, and alltransformations in between. Manage risk and scopeof potential change through real-time impact diagrams
linking data elements to the business glossary.
• Version management and change control — Withbuilt-in versioning, use baseline and archive mapping
documentation with change comparison reports
to enable efficient IT and regulatory audits andchange control.
• Integrated data quality – Automate profiling andquality scoring and build data trust with data quality
visibility across data lineage, mind maps, impact

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analysis and inside automated data value scoring
within erwin Data Marketplace. Ensure reliable,
high-quality data to support AI and other critical
data uses with cross-platform data observability andalerting.
• Personalized IT and governance dashboards -—Leverage data catalog and stewardship dashboards
to see, understand and drill into your data
landscape and supporting governance efforts.
• Data stewardship and data ownership — Use a
flexible metamodel to create different businessasset types, customize attributes, and support
the full range of semantic associations between
business and technical assets fitting for yourbusiness. Manage term definition and approval,
associated data policy and business rules, andassign data owners and subject-matter experts toimprove accountability and compliance.
• On-demand, interactive mind maps — Fully
understand data element relationships using
drill-down visualizations of business assets
and their associated physical, logical andgovernance metadata.

erwin Data Intelligence makes it simple for all data users to shop for high-value, trusted data products, datasets and AI models, and discover,understand, collaborate on and make the most of the enterprise data assets available within your organization.

• Data marketplace and consumer-like asset
discovery and collaboration — Make it easy for
all data users to shop for and compare governed
enterprise data products, datasets and AI models
with automated data value scoring. Encourage
discovery and collaboration on all data assets with
consumer-like asset discovery, ratings and reviews,action lists and built-in collaboration capabilities.
• Data modeling integration — Leverage data
models, mappings and naming standards fromerwin Data Modeler to jumpstart data intelligenceand governance, and speed the development
and delivery of data products from model tomarketplace.
• Sensitive data discovery and management — Use
AI to auto match business and technical assets andspeed sensitive data classification (PII, GDPR, CCPA
and more). Then manage sensitive data through a
dedicated dashboard to accelerate compliance andreduce risks.
• AI governance — Ensure data is AI-ready andsupport use of high-value, trusted AI models withcentralized curation, governance and ongoing data
observability to ensure reliability.

• SAML 2.0 integration — Accelerate the deployment
and adoption of erwin Data Intelligence byaligning it with your security and access control
infrastructure.
• Flexible deployment — Deploy erwin DataIntelligence on-premises, privately host in
your own cloud instance or choose erwin DataIntelligence Cloud and let Quest host andmanage your software on Microsoft Azure. No
matter the deployment you choose, receive all
current capabilities and be confident in futureenhancements.

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.

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