Data Catalog Organization with Categories

Categories are a parallel set of Data Federation directories into which you can link objects in the data catalog. Use the categories feature to set up taxonomies for data items in the data catalog.

You can arrange the category hierarchy in a way that reflects your organization’s taxonomy for provisioned data assets—making database operations, SQL views, data services, generated views, files, and other objects easier to find and use.

For example, you might set up a taxonomy as follows:

Category: BusinessEntities

• Category: Customers

  Database operations, SQL views, data services, etc. relating to customers

• Category: Orders

  Database operations, SQL views, data services, etc. relating to orders. Note that a getOrderInfoGivenCustomerId SQL view might appear under Customers as well as Orders.

• Category: Products

  Items related to products

• Category: Shipments

  Items related to shipments

Category: Metrics

• Category: Order Fulfillment

• Category: Sales

Category: ReferenceInformation

• Category: HR

• Category: Product Briefs

• Category: Sales Presentations

Category: Reports

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