Data intelligence tools

Data intelligence tools refer to the artificial intelligence and machine learning tools used by companies in order to analyze and transform data into information that is valuable and relevant for improving the company's operations.

Dataedo

Dataedo is an on-premises data catalog & metadata management tool. It allows you to catalog, document, and understand your data with a data dictionary, business glossary, and ERDs. It reads your schema and lets you easily describe each data element with descriptions, business-friendly aliases, and custom fields. It features a data community module, which allows you to crowdsource knowledge about data from everyone in your organization.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Dataedo Data Catalog
Dataedo Data Lineage
Dataedo Data Profiling
Dataedo Data Catalog - list of data sources

Collibra Catalog

Collibra Catalog empowers business users to quickly discover, understand, contribute, and govern the data that matters so they can generate impactful insights that drive business value. It also allows data stewards to certify datasets so that business users can trust the data that they use in their analysis.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes

Alation Data Catalog

Alation pioneered the data catalog market and is now leading its evolution into a platform for a broad range of data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes

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.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: 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.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: No
Data Profiling: 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.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes

IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog

IBM Watson® Knowledge Catalog is an open and intelligent data catalog for managing enterprise data and AI model governance, quality and collaboration. It enables you to organize, define and manage enterprise data to provide the right context to drive value across imperatives like regulatory compliance to data monetization.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes

Talend Data Catalog

Talend Data Catalog automatically crawls, profiles, organizes, links, and enriches all your metadata. It makes easy to search and access data, then verify its validity before sharing with peers. Up to 80% of the information associated with the data is documented automatically and kept up-to-date through smart relationships and machine learning, continually delivering the most meaningful data to the user.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes

Ataccama Metadata Management & Data Catalog

Ataccama ONE Data Catalog is an AI-powered metadata management module. It’s a central storage for all of your metadata—imported from other sources, crowdsourced, or automatically captured in continuous data discovery processes.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes

Apache Atlas

Apache Atlas provides open metadata management and governance capabilities for organizations to build a catalog of their data assets, classify and govern these assets, and provide collaboration capabilities around these data assets for data scientists, analysts, and the data governance team.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: No

OvalEdge

OvalEdge is a data catalog tool that automatically organizes and catalogs your data using machine learning and advance algorithms. You can organize data using tags, usage statistics, user names, and other markers – so it’s easily retrievable with everyday language.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: -

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.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes

Truedat

Truedat is an open source data cataloging and governance tool that allows to quickly unify and explore combined metadata from different sources on the same interface. It enables to organize & enrich information through configurable workflows and monitor data governance activity.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes

Cloudera Data Catalog

Cloudera Data Catalog enables you to discover, understand, document, and monitor data and its use. You can control sensitive information, and track lineage and audit access to build confidence in your data and value wherever and however it's used. You can also collaborate and share data responsibly with full insight.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes

Data3Sixty Govern

Infogix Data360 Govern is an enterprise metadata management, data governance, and data catalog solution. It provides automated data catalog, search and discovery features. It improves productivity, accuracy, and understanding of the available data.

Data Catalog: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes

The use of data intelligence tools improves the understanding of data and leads to better decision making in the future. There are other, various benefits that data intelligence tools can bring into the company. Some of them are:

• Providing correct context for datasets.
• Improving data quality.
• Increasing data accessibility.

In an evolving world of technology, data intelligence is crucial for the company's growth. It can help understand consumer preferences as well as a company's investment and its effectiveness. Through data analysis the company can view which areas can be optimized and present approaches that might be more beneficial for the future.

To help you find the right tool for your organization, we have put together this list of best data intelligence tools.