The Information Catalog Manager helps business professionals locate data anywhere in an organization quickly and easily. Users actually access the data using informational applications--applications that allow them to retrieve and analyze their data, without knowing or caring where the data is actually stored.
The Information Catalog Manager helps you learn:
This information about data is called descriptive data, or metadata, and is stored in an information catalog. Each information catalog is stored in a database that is maintained by the Information Catalog Manager.
Each information source or group of information sources is represented as an object. You can use many types of objects to represent the various kinds of information sources your organization uses, such as database tables, spreadsheets, and digitized photographs. From many of these objects, you can start programs that can work with the information sources.
Each information catalog object is similar to a card in a card catalog. Each object provides details about the information source, such as the name of the information source, a description, and the date on which the information source was last updated.