Data Catalog

Find. Understand.
Every data asset.

Governance cannot govern what it cannot see. The Data Catalog is the governed inventory of your data estate — every asset discovered, defined, owned, and linked to quality scores, access policies, and compliance requirements.

Automated discoveryBusiness glossaryGovernance-attachedAgent usage trackingSearchable
Data Catalog — customer_profiles
Owner
R. Kumar · Customer Data Steward
Active
Domain
Customer · Core Banking · Federated
Classified
Sensitivity
6 PII fields · 2 financial identifiers
Masked
Quality Score
97.4% · Last attested 19 Mar 2026
Passing
Access Policy
Credit Analyst · RBAC enforced
Protected

Why this matters.
Right now.

Without governed data catalog, these problems compound silently with every new data source and AI deployment.

What you can't find, you can't govern.

Business users resort to tribal knowledge. Shadow data proliferates. Assets outside the catalog have no governance applied — by definition.

Data found but unusable.

A table named cust_txn_hist_v3 conveys nothing about what it contains, who owns it, or whether it is current. Accessible but practically useless.

Governance blind spots compound.

Every uncatalogued asset is an unmanaged compliance risk. The gap grows with every new source, feed, and system added to the estate.

From input to
governed output.

1

Discover

Automated discovery of all data assets across federated sources — structured, semi-structured, unstructured

2

Enrich

Business context added — owner, domain, definition, quality score, sensitivity classification

3

Govern

Access policies, masking rules, and retention requirements attached and enforced

4

Search

Business users and agents find governed assets through a searchable, semantic catalog

5

Monitor

Usage tracked — which agents and users accessed which assets, when, and under what policy

What Data Catalog
delivers.

🔍

Automated asset discovery.

Tantor automatically discovers data assets across federated sources — no manual inventory, no shadow data.

📖

Business context layer.

Every asset enriched with business definitions, ownership, stewardship, quality scores, and access policies — not just technical metadata.

🔗

Lineage in the catalog.

Every asset linked to its upstream sources and downstream consumers — including which AI agents use it and how.

⚖️

Governance attached.

Access controls, masking rules, retention policies, and quality requirements visible per asset — compliance teams see the full picture.

See Data Catalog
in action.

See how Data Catalog works within the Tantor governed intelligence platform.