Nov 16, 2020 | San Diego

New as-a-service providing automates discovery of cross-platform knowledge lineage so clients can higher perceive knowledge movement and utilization throughout their complete knowledge analytics ecosystem

Allows simplified and accelerated migration to the cloud

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the cloud knowledge analytics platform firm, in the present day introduced the supply of Teradata DataDNA – an automatic service that produces knowledge lineage and utilization analytics. Utilizing the ability of Vantage, the corporate’s flagship hybrid multi-cloud knowledge analytics software program platform, DataDNA delivers transparency into a corporation’s knowledge belongings and their utilization throughout the ecosystem, no matter platform or know-how, to make sure most analytic worth is being derived all through the enterprise. By giving companies full perception into their knowledge – together with whether or not knowledge is used, how it’s used, and by whom – DataDNA allows clients to make use of knowledge as their best asset, eliminating knowledge redundancy, decreasing value, accelerating knowledge integration, aiding in regulatory compliance, and rising the return on funding.

Delivered by Teradata or one among its strategic integration and consulting companions, DataDNA additionally turns into an indispensable device as corporations migrate to Vantage within the cloud – serving to them perceive the interdependencies of their methods, knowledge utilization, and knowledge movement, to allow them to make knowledgeable choices on which functions to maneuver, consolidate and simplify for his or her new cloud ecosystem. 

“At Teradata, we now have a deep understanding of analytic ecosystems and the way knowledge flows via a corporation. That’s why we’re leveraging our experience to assist our clients higher perceive and handle their knowledge belongings throughout any platform,” mentioned Niels Brandt, Vice President, Buyer Success & Consulting at Teradata. “By automating knowledge administration, our clients will cut back their reliance on IT specialists for repetitive and low affect knowledge administration duties; thereby releasing their productive time for elevated collaboration, coaching and high-value providers. And as extra of our clients transfer to Vantage within the cloud, DataDNA gives perception to assist ecosystem simplification and helps to establish knowledge dependencies for accelerated migration plans and actions.”

DataDNA is an as-a-service providing that’s personalized for particular person Teradata clients. By delivering this automated view into knowledge belongings — together with their utilization and cross-platform knowledge lineage — DataDNA generates fast new insights that enhance new and current enterprise use circumstances by:

• Simplifying IT ecosystems and decreasing related prices;
• Eliminating knowledge duplication;
• Offering self-service enterprise insights;
• Making certain environment friendly and fact-based knowledge governance;
• Guaranteeing knowledge high quality;
• Reconciling knowledge and processes throughout platforms; and
• Producing automated and correct change affect evaluation.

The demand for automated knowledge administration has elevated dramatically in recent times as knowledge proliferation has accelerated, creating a necessity for providers and options that assist corporations perceive their huge knowledge ecosystems. With DataDNA, the insights into what methods do with knowledge, and who’s utilizing that knowledge, are derived from metadata. This makes the service a lot much less invasive and the footprint a lot lighter, in order that no intensive system processing is required.

In keeping with Gartner’s Prime 10 Tendencies in Knowledge and Analytics, Could 11, 2020, “By 2023, organizations using energetic metadata, machine studying and knowledge materials to dynamically join, optimize and automate knowledge administration processes will cut back time to built-in knowledge supply by 30%.” This allows corporations to leverage extra of their knowledge, sooner, to achieve fast analytic insights.

Gartner additionally asserts within the Magic Quadrant for Metadata Administration Options, October 16, 2019, by analysts Guido De Simoni, Mark Beyer, and Ankush Jain, that “Metadata helps understanding of a corporation’s knowledge belongings, how these knowledge belongings are used, and their enterprise worth. Metadata administration initiatives ship enterprise advantages similar to improved compliance and company governance, higher threat administration, higher shareability and reuse, and higher assessments of the affect of change inside an enterprise, whereas creating alternatives and guarding in opposition to threats.”

An entire checklist of DataDNA’s options embody:

• Automated Knowledge Lineage: Perceive how knowledge strikes throughout the enterprise, at a column degree, primarily based on info.
• Automated Knowledge Utilization Evaluation: Perceive who makes use of what knowledge, when, and the way. This could help with clear up, decommissioning, PII knowledge evaluation, and regulatory compliance.
• Knowledge Asset Catalog: Potential to establish the info that’s an asset to a corporation together with who makes use of the info – for knowledge monetization functions, knowledge as a service, and many others.
• Enterprise Glossary Administration: Helps corporations construct or handle enterprise glossaries by linking the enterprise glossary phrases to the bodily lineage from which the info arrives.
• Topic Space Fingerprinting: Perceive the topic areas which can be being utilized in IT environments and assist Cloud migration use circumstances, duplication evaluation, and far more.
• PII identification: Determine the place PII knowledge is saved and the way it strikes throughout an setting, utilizing metadata. This gentle contact strategy considerably reduces the system and human sources required to establish the place PII knowledge is held and who accesses it.
• Impression Evaluation: With the contact of a button, run an affect evaluation report to find out what affect a change may have throughout a whole linked lineage.

Availability

Teradata’s DataDNA is obtainable globally, in the present day.