MarketWired: Waterline Data Named on the Constellation ShortList™ for Data Cataloging

“With data volumes and variety exploding, data catalogs are fast becoming an indispensable resource for data professionals and data consumers alike,” said Doug Henschen, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research. “A data catalog such as Waterline Data’s, which meets our threshold requirements, is important for any organization that wants to make the most of its data, particularly as data sources and data-driven applications multiply and as data scale and diversity grows.”

Waterline Data recently unveiled its latest platform offering, Smart Data Catalog 4.0, which answers fundamental questions that most organizations have regarding data: Where do I find it? Where did it come from? What’s in the data? Who can use the data? With its unique combination of automated data inventorying plus crowdsourcing, Smart Data Catalog 4.0 allows data professionals to “fingerprint” data at scale by analyzing actual data values. The software automatically tags data fingerprints to glossary terms as well as matches terms through crowdsourcing, and then curates the results by allowing data stewards to accept or reject tags. Meanwhile, business professionals can easily search and use data through a user-friendly interface or through a variety of third party applications.

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