Introduction

erwin Data Intelligence (erwin DI) is a unified platform for data professionals that offers metadata-driven framework to:

• Discover data: Identify metadata from isolated data management sources
• Harvest data: Automate metadata collection from the isolated data management sources, and consolidate it into a single source
• Structure and deploy data sources: Connect physical metadata to specific data models, business terms, definitions, and reusable design standards
• Analyze metadata: Analyze the harvested data to understand its attributes and relation to business
• Map data flows: Identify data integration possibilities, and track its flows and transformations
• Govern data: Develop a governance model to manage standards, policies, and best practices, and associate them with physical assets.
• Socialize data: Empower stakeholders with role-based data availability in one place

This section introduces you to erwin DI architecture, its user interface (UI), and the tasks that you can accomplish using it.