Data discovery tools for Azure SQL Database

Data enables companies to make informed decisions and understand needs of the customer and the business. In order to leverage data, data discovery tools help organizations visualize, analyze and get insights from it. They start by collecting data from multiple sources to then consolidate, classify, and catalog it into a single repository to simplify its evaluation.

Dataedo

Dataedo is a powerful data governance & data catalog solution. With its intuitive interface, Dataedo enables organizations to locate, understand, and leverage their data assets efficiently. By promoting seamless data discovery, Dataedo enhances collaboration and innovation, empowering users to make informed decisions effortlessly.

Business Glossary: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Data visualization: No
Free edition: No
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: Yes
Dataedo Data Catalog
Dataedo Sensitive Data Discovery
Dataedo Business Glossary
Dataedo Data Lineage
Dataedo Data Profiling
Dataedo Data Search

OneTrust

OneTrust offers automated data discovery in unstructured file shares, structured databases, Big Data storage, SaaS applications, and other cloud solutions. It leverages advanced ML-based classification to label and tag data with both out-of-the-box and custom classifiers. Moreover, it identifies at-risk data, implements security controls, and monitors over time with advanced analytics.

Business Glossary: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: No

Atlan

Atlan is a modern and all-in-one platform that unifies your data discovery, cataloging, lineage, and governance experience. It empowers teams to easily discover and use data and create one place for all your data assets, tasks, and discussions.

Business Glossary: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: Yes

Alteryx Connect

Alteryx Connect is an all-in-one data management and collaboration tool that changes how you discover and organize information for analytics in your organization. It discovers the types of information your data contains, where the information comes from, who is using it, and how it is used through highly social interactions.

Business Glossary: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: Yes

Tableau Data Management

Tableau Data Management lets you discover, understand, connect, and trust your data. It offers automated data discovery and helps deliver trusted, self-service analytics by scaling data automation and operationalization throughout the entire data and analytics lifecycle.

Business Glossary: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: No
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: Yes

Domo

Domo provides AI-powered and automated data discovery with a simple drag-and-drop interface, making complex datasets consumable with a few clicks. Moreover, it allows to create customizable, interactive dashboards to fit any business scenario with Variables. Variables are custom-defined fields that users can adjust inside dashboards.

Business Glossary: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: No
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: Yes
Metadata management: No
Notifications: Yes

Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense is the best-in-class visualization and discovery tool that uses AI to help your users understand and use data more effectively, minimizing cognitive bias, amplifying discovery, and elevating data literacy. It combines a real-time data pipeline with action-oriented analytics capabilities, creating Active Intelligence that provides in-the-moment insights and drives immediate action.

Business Glossary: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: Yes
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: Yes

Trifacta

Trifacta offers a unique end-to-end data wrangling tool to conduct a data discovery process by taking raw data sources and transforming them into the appropriate format for analysis. With Trifacta, the user is able to see how the data will be used for different types of analysis. Trifacta has a six-step iterative data-wrangling process that leads to a more accurate analysis. The steps include discovering, structuring, cleansing, enriching, validating, and publishing. Moreover, it provides users with the best visualization for each specific type of data automatically.

Business Glossary: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: Yes

Data enables companies to make informed decisions and understand needs of the customer and the business. In order to leverage data, data discovery tools help organizations visualize, analyze and get insights from it. They start by collecting data from multiple sources to then consolidate, classify, and catalog it into a single repository to simplify its evaluation.

Collecting, cleaning and preparing data in order to gain insights from it is crucial for any business. Data discovery tools enable organizations to look deeper into data, get important insights and share them across the whole company. But at the same time, they help prevent exposure of sensitive data, and enable the organization to implement appropriate security measures.

Other features data discovery tools provide with are:

Machine learning capabilities, including predictive analytics

In-memory analytics, enabling faster query response times

Data preparation and tools to improve data quality

Metadata management

In order to help you find the right data discovery tool for your organization, we’ve listed some of the best softwares that will empower your team to detect informative patterns and extract valuable insights.