Data Governance and Catalog

What's New

Read What's New to learn about the new features, enhancements, and behavior changes in Data Governance and Catalog.

Release Notes

Read the Release Notes to learn about fixes and known issues for Data Governance and Catalog. For information about new features and enhancements, see What's New.

Getting Started

Introduction and Getting Started

Read Introduction and Getting Started to understand how you can begin using Data Governance and Catalog for governing the data in your organization.

Help for Users

Asset Discovery

Read Asset Discovery to learn how to find assets, understand the shape of the data in your organization and derive insights.

Understanding Business Assets

Read Understanding Business Assets to familiarize yourself with the properties of business assets in Data Governance and Catalog.

Understanding Technical Assets

Read Understanding Technical Assets to familiarize yourself with the assets from various source systems for which you can extract metadata to Data Governance and Catalog.

Asset Management

Read Asset Management to learn how to create assets, enrich assets with governance context, and collaborate with stakeholders to keep the assets up to date.

Data Access Management

Read Data Access Management to learn how to use data access policies to control access to data and apply data protections to it.

Data Profiling for Assets

Read Data Profiling for Assets to learn how to create and run data profiles on data elements and view detailed profile results.

Data Quality for Assets

Read Data Quality for Assets to learn how to use data quality rules to improve the quality of your organization's data.

Informatica QuickLook Browser Extension

Read Informatica QuickLook Browser Extension to learn how to install, configure, and use the Informatica QuickLook browser extension to quickly search for your assets present in your Data Governance and Catalog environment.

Help for Administrators

Bulk Import Assets

Use Bulk Import Assets to learn how to import business assets to Data Governance and Catalog. If you have a large number of assets, relationships, and stakeholders to enter in Data Governance and Catalog, you can use the option to bulk import data using predefined Microsoft Excel templates or you can use your own template files. …

Reference Material

API Reference

Read API Reference to create and manage assets in Data Governance and Catalog using the APIs that Informatica provides. This help is written for developers and administrators who are responsible for implementing Data Governance and Catalog. This help assumes that you have a basic knowledge of how to use Data Governance and …

What's New in Data Governance and Catalog - July 2025

Learn about the new features and enhancements in the July 2025 release of Data Governance and Catalog and Metadata Command Center.

What's New in Data Governance and Catalog - April 2025

Learn about the new features and enhancements in the April 2025 release of Data Governance and Catalog and Metadata Command Center.

What's New in Data Governance and Catalog - February 2025

Learn about the new features and enhancements in the February 2025 release of Data Governance and Catalog and Metadata Command Center.

What's New in Data Governance and Catalog - November 2024

Learn about the new features and enhancements in the November 2024 release of Data Governance and Catalog and Metadata Command Center.

Creating and Managing Dashboards

Learn how to create and manage dashboards in Data Governance and Catalog.

Creating Data Access Policies

Learn how to create three types of data access policies in Data Governance and Catalog: data access control, data filter, and data de-identification.

Creating Rule Occurrences and Viewing Scorecards

Learn how to create a rule occurrence in Data Profiling and view scorecards in Data Governance and Catalog.

Searching and Browsing Assets

Learn how to search and browse assets in Data Governance and Catalog.

Securely Manage, Protect, and Govern Your Data with IDMC

Learn how Data Access Management empowers enterprises to securely enforce policies, monitor data access, and protect sensitive information, mitigating the risk of data breaches and unauthorized access.

Metadata Access Control

This article explains how administrators can configure access policies with metadata access control to control how users interact with the assets in Data Governance and Catalog and Data Marketplace. Use cases describe how organizations can control access to unpublished glossary changes, restrict access to sensitive employee data, and enable cross-functional collaboration on an enterprise glossary.

Configure

Using Microsoft Teams to search for Data Governance and Catalog assets

This article is intended for users that are familiar with Microsoft Teams and want to use Microsoft Teams to search and view the assets that are available in Data Governance and Catalog.

Using Slack to search for Cloud Data Governance and Catalog assets

This article is intended for users that are familiar with Slack and want to use Slack to search and view the assets that are available in Data Governance and Catalog.

Monitor

Understand Data Observability Anomalies in Data Governance and Catalog

This article explains the various anomalies and their corresponding metrics that data observability in Data Governance and Catalog identifies in your data.

Additional Articles

Business Asset Type Relationships

This article provides a visual representation of the types and nature of relationships that are possible between assets in Data Governance and Catalog. The diagrams also depict the relationship between data from Reference 360 and assets in Data Governance and Catalog.

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What's New in Data Governance and Catalog

Search and Browse Assets

Business Asset Types

Metadata Access Control

Protect your Data with Data Access Policies and Rules

Import Assets using Template Files

Search Query Examples

Creating Assets and Assigning Stakeholders

Add Business Context to your Metadata

Understand Data Observability Anomalies