Column profiling discovers the following facts about data:

You can configure the following options when you create or edit a profile:

In the profile results, you can add comments and tags to a profile and to the columns in a profile. You can assign business terms to columns.

The Model repository locks profiles to prevent users from overwriting work with the repository profile locks. The version control system saves multiple versions of a profile and assigns a version number to each version. You can check out a profile and then check the profile in after making changes. You can undo the action of checking out a profile before you check the profile back in.

Create scorecards to periodically review data quality. You create scorecards before and after you apply rules to profiles so that you can view a graphical representation of the valid values for columns.

Use the Scheduler Service to schedule profile runs and scorecard runs to run at a specific time or intervals. The Scheduler Service manages schedules for profiles, scorecards, deployed mappings, and deployed workflows. You can create, manage, and run schedules in Informatica Administrator.