The Game-Changing Data Discovery Platform for Data Democratization

In today’s ever-changing data landscape, managing, discovering, and utilizing all relevant data effectively is a critical challenge for organizations, regardless of their industry. As both data volumes and the number of sources grow, so does the complexity of organizing and accessing that information, especially when it resides across disparate systems and platforms.

The Zeenea Data Discovery Platform is designed to address these challenges head-on. It enables both technical and non-technical users to quickly and efficiently find, access, and trust enterprise data, regardless of where it’s stored.

What Sets the Zeenea Platform Apart in the Marketplace?

The Zeenea Data Discovery Platform is a comprehensive metadata management solution that streamlines data governance, simplifies data discovery, and manages vast data assets. It’s built with flexibility and ease-of-use at its core, catering to both data professionals and everyday data users who don’t have advanced IT skill sets.

One benefit that sets the Zeenea platform apart is its ability to automate processes, ensuring that organizations can keep pace with their rapidly evolving data environment without extensive manual effort. The Zeenea platform is powered by two essential applications:

1. Zeenea Studio. This application is geared toward data professionals, including chief data officers (CDOs), data engineers, data stewards, and data governance teams. It is designed to make data documentation easy and automated, allowing teams to enrich and manage their data with precision. Users can curate data assets, ensuring they are well-organized and readily accessible.

For organizations struggling with the complexity of metadata management, Zeenea Studio simplifies the process by automating the collection and curation of data, reducing manual overhead and increasing accuracy. Data stewards, in particular, can use the platform to ensure that their organization’s data is both trustworthy and compliant with internal and external regulations.

2. Zeenea Explorer. This application is designed for everyday users, making data exploration and discovery simple and intuitive. Whether users are a data scientist, analyst, or business stakeholder, the platform allows them to find relevant data quickly and easily. Its interface is user-friendly, ensuring that even those without a deep technical background can access the data they need to make informed decisions.

The self-service nature of Zeenea Explorer is one of its standout features. It allows business leaders and data teams to access data when they need it, streamlining workflows and accelerating decision-making across departments.

4 Key Differentiators Empower Data-Driven Organizations

Four primary features distinguish the Zeenea Data Discovery Platform from other data management solutions, making it a top choice for modern organizations:

1. API-Based Automation. The solution is a fully API-driven platform, which means that organizations can automate their entire data cataloging process. This level of automation reduces the need for manual updates and ensures that the data catalog stays up-to-date as the data environment evolves. This automation also helps scale metadata management across complex environments with ease.
2. Universal Connectivity. Zeenea supports a wide range of data sources, from traditional databases to cloud services. This universal connectivity makes it an incredibly versatile tool, capable of managing diverse data types across multiple platforms. Organizations with hybrid data environments can also rely on Zeenea to seamlessly discover and manage all their data assets in one place.
3. Powerful Knowledge Graph. A comprehensive knowledge graph enables a progressive design for data discovery. As data needs grow, the knowledge graph adapts, helping uncover relationships between data points, enriching the overall understanding of data assets. This dynamic feature provides deeper insights and allows organizations to maximize the value of their data.
4. Intuitive User Experience. The Zeenea platform is designed with simplicity in mind. It requires no training to use, making it accessible for users of all levels. Whether users are experienced data professionals or business analysts, Zeenea offers an experience that is both intuitive and powerful, allowing for quick adoption and effective use across the organization.

Modern Capabilities to Advance Data Discovery

A data discovery platform like the Zeenea solution is essential for unifying, governing, and leveraging data effectively. In addition to meeting organizations’ needs for data intelligence, the Zeenea Data Discovery Platform offers a variety of innovative capabilities that ensure data is connected, compliant, and easily accessible:

• Business Glossary. Zeenea’s Business Glossary allows organizations to establish a consistent business language across all data consumers. This feature is crucial for ensuring that everyone in the organization is working from the same definitions and standards, fostering collaboration and transparency. Teams can easily define rules, set policies, and visualize relationships between business terms through an intuitive, automated interface.
• Data Compliance. In an era of increased regulation, data compliance is critical. Zeenea helps organizations stay compliant with regulations by detecting personal information and providing suggestions on how to tag and manage sensitive data. This capability allows data stewards to handle compliance issues with greater autonomy, ensuring that data usage across the organization adheres to legal requirements.
• Data Discovery. The Zeenea platform takes inspiration from marketplaces and e-commerce websites, offering smart search capabilities that allow users to find the data they need quickly and efficiently. Whether users know exactly what they are looking for or are exploring potential use cases, the platform’s data discovery capabilities provide smart recommendations and a 360-degree view of relevant data.
• Data Governance. The platform’s data governance capabilities help drive business initiatives by ensuring that data is trusted, secure, and compliant. Zeenea’s approach to governance is collaborative and non-intrusive, adapting to the specific needs of each organization and ensuring that data governance evolves with the organization’s data landscape.
• Data Lineage. Zeenea provides comprehensive data lineage capabilities, allowing data teams to map the entire lifecycle of data, from collection to storage and use. This context-rich view helps organizations understand their data’s origins, relationships, and evolution over time, which is critical for regulatory compliance and improved analytics.
• Data Quality. Through its ability to connect with data quality management (DQM) solutions, the Zeenea platform provides users with data quality metrics during the discovery phase. This ensures that teams can trust the data they are working with, avoiding risks and driving better outcomes.
• Data Shopping. Similar to an online shopping experience, Zeenea’s Enterprise Data Marketplace allows users to browse, request, and gain access to relevant datasets with ease. This intuitive data shopping experience democratizes data access across the organization, empowering users to leverage data for strategic decision-making without needing to be data experts.
• Data Stewardship. The Zeenea platform helps data stewards manage large volumes of data by automating data documentation and enhancing metadata management. Data stewardship reduces the burden on data teams, increases productivity, and ensures that organizations can maintain high data standards without the need for extensive manual input. 

Make Data Usable and Accessible to Everyone

At its core, Zeenea is a smart data discovery platform that enables organizations to find, trust, and unlock the value of their enterprise data. By offering both technical and non-technical users the tools they need to access and understand their data, the platform empowers informed decision-making, drives productivity, and fosters collaboration.

With capabilities such as Zeenea Studio and Zeenea Explorer, organizations can maximize the value of their data while maintaining governance and compliance. Whether it’s enriching data, ensuring regulatory compliance, or democratizing access to data across the enterprise, the Zeenea platform provides a scalable, flexible solution that adapts to the evolving needs of today’s data-driven businesses. Experience it for yourself with a live tour.

About Dee Radh

As Director of Product Marketing, Dee Radh heads product marketing for the Actian Data Platform. Prior to that, she held senior PMM roles at Talend and Formstack. Dee has spent 100% of her career bringing technology products to market. Her expertise lies in developing strategic narratives and differentiated positioning for GTM effectiveness. In addition to a post-graduate diploma from the University of Toronto, Dee has obtained certifications from Pragmatic Institute, Product Marketing Alliance, and Reforge. Dee is based out of Toronto, Canada.