Master your data. Empower your business.
Create data transparency, ensure quality, and drive smarter decisions with one central data catalog.
Find data faster and fuel accurate results
Intuitive search & central catalog portals
Seamless alignment between business units and IT
Mitigate risks and ensure continuous compliance
The challenge: navigating the data jungle
Organizations often struggle with numerous data sources where origin and quality are poorly defined. The absence of a central catalog makes data hard to find and prone to misuse. This lack of transparency forces leadership to make business-critical decisions based on unreliable insights.
What is a data catalog?
A data catalog serves as a centralized directory for enterprise data. By documenting data assets through both technical and business metadata, it ensures that information is easily discoverable and understandable for all users.
How does a data catalog work?
A modern data catalog captures information from existing systems and organizes it into a structured format:
- Ingestion of technical and business metadata: Automated collection of system details and business context.
- Classification and structuring of data: Organizing assets for better governance and clarity.
- Centralized search across all data assets: A single point of entry to find information instantly.
- Visualization of data lineage: Tracking the origin and flow of data throughout the organization.
- Continuous catalog updates: Ensuring content stays synchronized and up to date automatically.
Why is a data catalog essential?
A data catalog empowers organizations to:
- Establish transparency across all existing data assets.
- Ensure data quality through robust quality rule management.
- Utilize data consistently with full traceability.
- Minimize misinterpretations thanks to clear, standardized definitions.
Ultimately, a data catalog provides the solid foundation for data-driven decision-making.
How our data catalog works
Scan.
Our intelligent Audit Probes scan your data sources and automatically extract relevant insights.
Analyse.
Powerful algorithms normalize attributes and process metadata to ensure it is understandable and actionable for all business units.
Enrich.
Expand metadata manually or automatically for example, for entity extraction or the classification of key topics such as GDPR or cybersecurity.
Real feedback. Real results.
Bertrand Champlois
Manager Analytics BI & Reporting, Galderma
“SoftProject`s platform is Galderma’s central data exchange hub, and operates in a Pharmacy-qualified environment.”
What you gain
✔ Unified metadata visibility across all systems
✔ Reduced data redundancy and minimized manual discovery
✔ Accelerated workflows through instant data access
✔ Strengthened compliance and automated audit readiness
✔ Trusted data foundation for AI and automation
Industries & Use Cases
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Financial Services
Public Sector
Our data catalog solutions
Business-driven data governance.
dataspot. helps organizations understand and govern their data from a business perspective.
By creating a shared, end-to-end view of data, teams gain clarity, trust and a reliable foundation for data-driven decisions, automation and AI initiatives.
FAQs
How long does it take to see the first results?
Does the Data Catalog store our actual business data?
Can non-technical users really use the catalog?
Absolutely. While IT benefits from the technical details, the catalog is specifically designed to bridge the gap to the business side. Through business glossaries and intuitive search, “citizen users” can find and understand data without needing to write SQL or understand database schemas.
How does MyDataCatalogue support GDPR and internal audits?
The catalog automatically identifies and tags sensitive data (PII). Combined with integrated Data Lineage, you can track exactly where sensitive information comes from, who owns it, and how it is used. This makes responding to audit requests or “Right to be Forgotten” inquiries a matter of minutes, not weeks.