June 2022
Beginner to intermediate
38 pages
51m
English
Content preview from Implementing a Modern Data Catalog to Power Data Intelligence
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Chapter 4. Enterprise Data Catalog Business Impact
In this chapter, we describe the business impact—both qualitative and quantitative—of data catalogs. We then provide a number of concrete use cases that a data catalog supports. In particular, we discuss self-service analytics, data governance and guided data usage, data operations, and cloud and multicloud migration.
Catalog Business Impact
As described before, the core value of an enterprise data catalog is that it is the central place to bring together all information about data in an enterprise. The emphasis on central and all information makes an enterprise data catalog more efficient than a combination of siloed tool-adjunct data catalogs in an enterprise. Furthermore, the enterprise data catalog integrates, interlinks, and enriches the various pieces of metadata. It is the place where the value of the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.
Not many resources quantitatively report on data catalogs’ impact, but one notable report, created by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Alation, conducted a total economic impact (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Alation.
Forrester interviewed seven customers with experience using the Alation Data Catalog. Based on this, in October 2019, Forrester reported the following risk-adjusted present value (PV) quantified benefits of using enterprise data catalogs:
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