What is Azure Data Catalog?

Azure Data Catalog is a Data Catalog cloud service of Microsoft using a crowdsourced approach. It provides an inventory of data used for discovering and understanding the data sources. Microsoft Azure is a Software as a Service (SaaS) application.

“Build Confidence in Azure Data Catalog even having more than millions of accounts”

**Source: **Gartner, Inc

Azure Data Catalog enhances old investments’ performance, adding metadata and notation around the Azure environment’s data. It informs about the Data sources which we have discovered or which we already have. It expresses documentation and describes the schema of the data source. The data source location and a copy of the metadata are present in the Azure Data Catalog. The user can access it easily when needed, and the indexing of metadata helps discover data through a search.### What is Azure Data Catalog?

Azure Data Catalog is a Data Catalog cloud service of Microsoft using a crowdsourced approach. It provides an inventory of data used for discovering and understanding the data sources. Microsoft Azure is a Software as a Service (SaaS) application.

“Build Confidence in Azure Data Catalog even having more than millions of accounts”

**Source: **Gartner, Inc

Azure Data Catalog enhances old investments’ performance, adding metadata and notation around the Azure environment’s data. It informs about the Data sources which we have discovered or which we already have. It expresses documentation and describes the schema of the data source. The data source location and a copy of the metadata are present in the Azure Data Catalog. The user can access it easily when needed, and the indexing of metadata helps discover data through a search.

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