Dataplex's Data Catalog feature is a central inventoryof an organization's data assets. Data Catalog automaticallycatalogs metadata from Google Cloud sources such as BigQuery,Vertex AI, Pub/Sub, Spanner, Bigtable,and more. Data Catalog also indexes table and fileset metadatafrom Cloud Storage through discovery.You can discover data with Dataplex's governed organization-widemetadata search capability. You can further enrich metadata with criticalbusiness context, and enable lineage tracking, data profiling, data qualitychecks, and access control capabilities.Using Data Catalog, organizations can achieve better datadiscovery, metadata management, and governance.Why do you need Data Catalog?Most organizations today are dealing with a large and growing number of dataassets.Data stakeholders (consumers, producers, and administrators) within anorganization face multiple challenges:Searching for insightful data:Data consumers don't know the location and origin of data. They have tonavigate da...
