This white paper explores the role of enterprise data catalogs in enabling trusted, self-service analytics. It explains how catalogs go beyond basic metadata to provide business context, data quality insights, lineage, and governance. The paper contrasts tactical catalogs with enterprise-wide implementations, emphasizing the need for embedded governance to address consistency, compliance, and trust. It shows how catalogs with stewardship, certification, policy management, and collaboration capabilities help organizations scale data initiatives, reduce risk, and empower users to confidently discover and use data.

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