Where InfoSphere Discovery fits in the suite architecture

InfoSphere® Discovery automates the data analysis process and generates results for other components in the InfoSphere Information Server suite.

By using InfoSphere Discovery, data analysts can identify and generate complex transformations that describe the locations and formats of sensitive data and then describe the relationships of data elements across applications.

After adding an InfoSphere Information Server data source in InfoSphere Discovery, data analysts can import and export physical tables to and from the common metadata repository. By connecting to an InfoSphere Information Server data source, data analysts can run InfoSphere Discovery tools on a wider range of information and connect with InfoSphere Information Analyzer. This connection can be used to analyze data and discover relationships that exist in the data source.

InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog terms and assets can be imported into InfoSphere Discovery projects and automatically assigned to existing columns that match the imported assigned assets. The terms can also be manually assigned to other columns in the project. Similarly, InfoSphere Discovery classifications can be exported to InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog.

Data analysts can also export database model files from InfoSphere Discovery to InfoSphere Information Server by using InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager. The imported metadata includes implemented data resources and analysis information. Source and target mappings can be exported from InfoSphere Discovery to InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog as extension mappings to view in data lineage reports. Target maps that are based on a source-to-target relationship discovery can be exported to InfoSphere FastTrack, helping business analysts connect relationships to enhance the integration of related data.