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Data Catalogs

Nexla can be seamlessly integrated with enterprise data catalogs such as Alation, Collibra, and data.world, empowering any Nexla user in the organization to easily register and maintain Nexsets within the catalog.

Enterprise data catalogs enable organizations to dicsover, organize, and manage their data assets. Data catalogs provide a complete inventory of an organization's data assets, including information such as the data structure, location, and source, along with its relationships to other data. This allows organization members to easily locate, understand, and evaluate any needed data. Data catalogs an also be utilized to aid in data governance and ensuring compliance with data regulations.

Integrating Nexla with an enterprise data catalog makes cataloging the data in any Nexset a simmple and quick part of daily workflows, instead of an extra task to be performed separately.


Activating Data Catalog Integrations​

Setting up a data catalog integration in Nexla only requires a few simple steps performed by an organization administrator in the data catalog and Nexla UIs. Once setup is complete and the catalog integration is activated, any Nexla user within the organization can register and update Nexsets within the data catalog account.

Integrated data catalogs can be activated for all organization users with the click of a switch in the Nexla UI.

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See our data catalog integration guides to learn how to complete the full integration process:

Registering Nexsets in a Data Catalog​

After an organization administrator has completed the data catalog integration setup process and activated the integration for the organization, all Nexla users in the organization can easily register any of their Nexsets in the catalog within a few seconds.

  • To register a Nexset in the data catalog, click the Details.png icon on the Nexset to open its information drawer. A catalog registration button will be available in the right-hand panel—click this button to register the Nexset in the data catalog.
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  • Once registration is complete, the catalog reference is displayed as a clickable link.
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Updating a Nexset in the Data Catalog​

Nexset listings in a data catalog can be updated to reflect the latest Nexset data directly from the Nexla UI. When a Nexset listing is updated, the current Nexset name, description, documentation, schema, and samples will be reflected in the linked catalog resource.

  • To update a registered Nexset in the associated data catalog, click the Update Entry on <Data Catalog> button displayed below the catalog reference in the Nexset information drawer.
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Viewing Nexsets in the Data Catalog​

Users can view registered Nexsets in the data catalog by utilizing the access links provided in the Nexla UI or by navigating directly to the Nexset(s) within the catalog UI.

View a Single Nexset in the Catalog (from the Nexla UI)​

  • For all Nexsets registered registered to a data catalog, the Nexset's catalog reference is displayed as a clickable link in the Nexset information drawer. Click this link to launch and view the Nexset in the corresponding data catalog.

    Example: Alation Catalog Reference Link in the Nexla UI

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    Example: Viewing a Nexset in Collibra

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View All Registered Nexsets within the Data Catalog​