Data democratization tools for SQL Server

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.

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.