Data literacy tools for Power BI

Data literacy tools empower employees to read, work with, analyze, and communicate with data. It enables them to ask the right questions and build knowledge in order to communicate meanings through data. Data skills are now essential for any role and the lack of data literacy within the company can lead to misinterpretation and misrepresentation of the facts.

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 literacy 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: No
Dataedo Data Catalog
Dataedo Data Search
Dataedo Report Catalog
Dataedo Sensitive Data Discovery
Dataedo Data Profiling
Dataedo Data Community
Dataedo Business Glossary
Dataedo Data Lineage
Dataedo ERD

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

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

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.

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

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.

Automated Cataloging: Yes
Business Glossary: Yes
Commenting/Community: Yes
Commercial: Free
Data Classification: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Export: CSV
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

Data literacy drives success, and the quicker the company becomes data literate, the quicker it can witness better results. The lack of data literacy skills can lead to insecurity within employees. The companies that invest in data literacy can not only eliminate this problem but also experience benefits such as:

• Better decision making.
• Increased customer satisfaction.
• Improved employee satisfaction.

We prepared a list of data literacy tools to help you and your employees with a better use and understanding of data in order to make better and faster data-driven decisions.