Nov 16, 2020 | San Diego

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

Permits simplified and accelerated migration to the cloud

Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the cloud knowledge analytics platform firm, at present introduced the provision 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 property 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 permits clients to make use of knowledge as their biggest asset, eliminating knowledge redundancy, lowering price, accelerating knowledge integration, aiding in regulatory compliance, and growing the return on funding.

Delivered by Teradata or one in all its strategic integration and consulting companions, DataDNA additionally turns into an indispensable device as firms migrate to Vantage within the cloud – serving to them perceive the interdependencies of their programs, knowledge utilization, and knowledge circulate, to allow them to make knowledgeable selections 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 by a corporation. That’s why we’re leveraging our experience to assist our clients higher perceive and handle their knowledge property throughout any platform,” stated 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 impression 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 offers perception to help ecosystem simplification and helps to determine 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 property — together with their utilization and cross-platform knowledge lineage — DataDNA generates speedy new insights that enhance new and present enterprise use circumstances by:

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

The demand for automated knowledge administration has elevated dramatically lately as knowledge proliferation has accelerated, creating a necessity for providers and options that assist firms perceive their huge knowledge ecosystems. With DataDNA, the insights into what programs 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 line with Gartner’s Prime 10 Tendencies in Information and Analytics, Could 11, 2020, “By 2023, organizations using lively 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 firms to leverage extra of their knowledge, quicker, to achieve speedy 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 property, how these knowledge property are used, and their enterprise worth. Metadata administration initiatives ship enterprise advantages akin to improved compliance and company governance, higher threat administration, higher shareability and reuse, and higher assessments of the impression of change inside an enterprise, whereas creating alternatives and guarding towards threats.”

A whole checklist of DataDNA’s options embrace:

• Automated Information Lineage: Perceive how knowledge strikes throughout the enterprise, at a column degree, based mostly on info.
• Automated Information Utilization Evaluation: Perceive who makes use of what knowledge, when, and the way. This will help with clear up, decommissioning, PII knowledge evaluation, and regulatory compliance.
• Information Asset Catalog: Capability to determine 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 so on.
• Enterprise Glossary Administration: Helps firms 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 are being utilized in IT environments and help Cloud migration use circumstances, duplication evaluation, and rather more.
• PII identification: Determine the place PII knowledge is saved and the way it strikes throughout an atmosphere, utilizing metadata. This mild contact strategy considerably reduces the system and human sources required to determine the place PII knowledge is held and who accesses it.
• Impression Evaluation: With the contact of a button, run an impression evaluation report to find out what impression a change may have throughout a complete linked lineage.

Availability

Teradata’s DataDNA is on the market globally, at present.