Talend Data Catalog 8.1 is Here!
Author(s): Don Pinto & Christophe Toum
Effective data governance hinges on rich metadata from diverse sources, providing context and enabling easy discovery of siloed assets. Managing this metadata is crucial for understanding data origins, changes, and access control. Without it, companies struggle with data quality, productivity, and compliance.
Building on the success of previous versions, Talend Data Catalog (TDC) 8.1, released in May 2024, effectively addresses these challenges. Here are a few top-level TDC 8.1 release highlights:-
- Enhanced metadata bridges mean that with TDC 8.1, you can start harvesting metadata from even more sources including dbt (core and cloud), Couchbase, Databricks, Unity Catalog and Spark notebooks, GraphQL, Snowflake access history, and more. This enables you to discover data across various sources - regardless of where it’s stored.
- Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard support means that with Talend Data Catalog 8.1, you can create standardized process models that are easier to understand and collaborate on, and seamlessly integrate with third-party applications like Lucidchart.
- Improved data documentation and mapping brings better user experience for editing descriptions, comments, and issues with the HTML-based editor, the ability to creating semantic mappings linked with business glossary terms. As a result, the data models are more accurate, understandable, and trustworthy for everyone in the organization.
- More scalable search is powered by Solr - instead of a Lucene index, and the worksheets capability revolutionizes how you find and organize information. This capability significantly enhances and scales data discovery, especially for larger datasets, boosting productivity for governance stakeholders.
Now, we have just shared a few key capabilities of the release, but if you want to dive deeper, you can find the official release notes here.
For on-premise TDC 8.0 deployments, now is the time to upgrade. For customers using the managed cloud version of TDC 8.0, we are planning to schedule a migration to TDC 8.1 before the end of year 2024, and customers will be notified prior to this migration. Customers with a current TDC 8.0 subscription can get TDC 8.1 without additional cost. To help you realize these benefits as quickly as possible, reach out to your Qlik contact to engage and kick-start your TDC migration.
