Data democratization tools for Azure SQL Database

Data democratization tools enable the access of data by anyone in the organization, regardless of their role or technical knowledge, in order to make data-informed decisions. It's a crucial element which eliminates gatekeepers and bottlenecks that they create in the company.

Dataedo

Dataedo is a powerful software solution designed to break down data barriers within organizations. With an intuitive interface, Dataedo makes it easy to document, understand, and share data assets across technical and non-technical teams. By promoting data accessibility, Dataedo enhances decision-making and collaboration, ultimately driving innovation. Discover Dataedo to empower data democratization in your organization with transparent and accessible data.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: HTML,MS Excel,PDF
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes
Dataedo Data Catalog
Dataedo Report Catalog
Dataedo Sensitive Data Discovery
Dataedo Data Search
Dataedo ERD
Dataedo Data Lineage
Dataedo Data Community

Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog

Informatica Data Catalog is a machine learning-based data catalog that lets you classify and organize data assets across any environment to maximize data value and reuse, and provides a metadata system of record for the enterprise. It automatically scans and catalogs data across the enterprise, indexing it for enterprise-wide discovery using simple, Google-like search.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: CSV,JSON,MS Excel,Plain text,XML
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Redgate SQL Data Catalog

SQL Data Catalog is the relational data classification tool. It speeds up data classification with automatic suggestions and advanced filtering. It also performs automatic scanning of databases and schemas, catches any changes to the estate without the need to reregister instances, to ensure the latest information is captured.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: No
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: No
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: CSV
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: No

Alteryx Connect

Alteryx Connect is a social data cataloging and data exploration platform for the enterprise. The powerful data cataloging provided by Alteryx Connect centralizes business terms and definitions, metrics, and information assets for maximum consistency, discoverability, and collaboration.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: CSV,MS Excel,PDF
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Lumada Data Catalog

Lumada Data Catalog software leverages AI, machine learning, and patented fingerprinting technology to automate the discovery, classification, and management of your enterprise data. It simplifies access and promotes collaboration allowing an organization to more intelligently use their data.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: XML
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Io-Tahoe

Io-Tahoe is an enterprise smart data discovery and AI-driven data catalog product that enables enterprises to accelerate to next-generation data management practices, radically improving data governance and regulatory compliance. Population of the data catalog is automated by using artificial intelligence and leveraging the discovery functionality and natural language analysis to automatically tag data.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: CSV,JSON,MS Excel,Plain text,XML
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Azure Data Catalog

Azure Data Catalog is an enterprise-wide metadata catalog that makes data asset discovery straightforward. It’s a fully-managed cloud service that lets any user (analyst, data scientist, or developer) register, enrich, discover, understand, and consume data sources.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: No
Data Lineage: No
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: JSON
Free edition: Yes
Rating of assets: No

Atlan

Atlan is a modern, cloud native data catalog. It's ease of use and intuitive interface enables diverse personas including engineers, data stewards and business users to discover, understand and trust data. Atlan leverages machine learning and a bots ecosystem to automate documentation and stewardship tasks such as automatic data profiling, data quality alerts and glossary tagging. It is built on an Open API architecture, and has a pay as you go pricing model, making it a good fit for teams of all sizes.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: -
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Sidecar

Sidecar data catalog is a modern, intuitive and comprehensive tool to discover, classify and enrich all your data assets. Automatically index all the metadata in a centralized repository and provide a clear view of the complex and fragmented data management environments to your data consumer. With the Business Glossary capabilties, you can easily enrich all your data assets with business context, clear definitions, rules and transformations. Foster team work among the user community by exchanging ideas on the data assets with the collaboration tool. Add custom tags and classifcations to organize your assets and manage your sensitive data to comply with GDPR, HIPAA, CPRA, etc... Data consumers will spend less time searching for the right data and focus on delivering faster insights.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: No
Export: CSV,XML
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Stemma

Stemma is a fully managed data catalog, powered by the leading open-source data catalog, Amundsen. By bridging the gap between data producers and data consumers, Stemma enables you to gain total trust in your data. Stemma provides enterprise management (easy deployment, enterprise-grade security) and richer metadata. It makes finding trustworthy data easy and offers an always up-to-date view of your data's usage at any time through automated documentation based on common usage patterns.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Commercial
Data Classification: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: -
Free edition: No
Rating of assets: Yes

Data democratization is essential to agile, data-driven organizations. The ability to access and understand data creates more data-driven employees and it leads to faster decision making. What is more, democratizing data allows the team members to take on ownership and more responsibility while using data to make decisions.

Enterprises that democratize data are able to access data that was previously locked in a data warehouse or data lake and accessible only to the IT employees. They are also able to address resource limitations and data enablement.

In our list, we included data democratization tools that can help you facilitate easy access to data.