Automobile manufacturer
Concept and pilot implementation of the Alation Data Catalog
Starting point
- Large data lake with many different and unstructured data
- The wiki for cataloging the data must be manually maintained when changes occur
- There is no central platform for searching within the data lake
- Central management or a uniformly established data governance is not in place
Procedure
- Collection of user requirements for all roles through interviews
- Conceptualisation of the data governance process
- Definition of mandatory and optional metadata fields
- Installation of the Alation Data Catalog
- Integration with a portion of the data lake for piloting the solution
- Maintenance of metadata for selected data sources to test the search functionality
Features/Project outcome
- Creation and integration of an expandable data governance concept
- Implementation of a functional Alation Data Catalog application
- Operational integration with the data lake
- Development of a pilot with selected data sources and valid metadata
Customer benefits
- Holistic management of data in the data lake through the data governance concept
- Cataloged data sources based on their metadata
- Quick overview of the data through search functions
- Easy wiki maintenance through the technical integration of the Alation Data Catalog with the data lake
- Flexible expansion of the Alation Data Catalog with new data sources and the growing data lake

Nico Inhoffen | Senior Manager