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