The Data Dictionary implements a comprehensive view of your data fabric, meticulously scanned by illumex. It provides detailed information about your databases, including schemas, tables, columns, BI dashboards, data models, and visuals. Each item can be documented with tags, ownership, and additional notes.
illumex makes it exciting to document and review data entities! Instead of the standard practice of looking for an owner of every data entity, illumex provides incredibly informative stats about tables and columns’ metadata, such as age, row count, retention period, length, data type, and whether or not it can be nullable.
But we don’t stop at organizing your data objects. We enrich these objects with semantic entities: business terms, and usage-related context, revealing details like usage level, how, when, and where your data has been utilized, common joins, popular partitions, and aliases.
With the Data Dictionary, you can effortlessly navigate and leverage your data, enabling informed decisions and deeper insights.
All of this information is available for export to PDF and Excel whenever applicable.
Any user can click the Export button in the top right corner and select the type of file and information they want to export.
However, a picture is worth a thousand words: With illumex, you can jump to Lineage or visual Data Exploration and see your data landscape in a beautiful graph, with connections between the different entities based on the team’s practices and usage. Imagine an interactive ERD diagram of thousands of tables and columns.
As a data owner, you can get alerts on unused and duplicate entities and review the suspected duplications and overlaying fields. All of this helps to eliminate waste and concentrate on what is essential.
And now illumex is getting even better! With all the richness of supporting statistics, visual relational models, and recommendations, we’re adding a way to easily describe each data object with an auto-generated description provided by AI Assistant.
Editing Data and Analytic Entities
As a Data Owner, you can easily edit a data or analytic entity by following these steps:
- Access the Edit Function: Click the Edit button located in the top-right corner of the screen.
- Modify Entity Details: Once in edit mode, you can:
- Update the entity description.
- Add or modify owner notes.
- Assign or change the owner (note: fields will inherit their parent owner).
- Manage associated tags.
Make sure to click Done before exiting the edit mode to ensure your changes are saved.
