DOC xPress: Manage Database Metadata and Documentation

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Accurately documenting databases is challenging

 

One of the biggest obstacles in managing a database environment is continuously maintaining accurate, up-to-date documentation. Current documentation, including a clear understanding of the data's origin, is critical to ensure adherence to business rules.

Challenges data teams face in maintaining documentation include:

  • Significant time investment in maintaining up-to-date documentation, particularly in constantly changing environments

  • Difficulties tracking data lineage, a crucial step in ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations such as GDPR, CASL, and others

  • Frustrations with analyzing metadata to track how data has changed over time—and who has touched the data

With DOC xPress, you can automatically document databases and track data lineage, which helps you comply with business rules and data privacy regulations. 

Properly documenting your data estate can be an endless battle against unwieldy processes, limited resources, and constantly changing data

Automatically generate database documentation with DOC xPress

 

SentryOne DOC xPress helps you efficiently and accurately document your entire Microsoft Data Platform environment, ensuring that your data systems support business rules and facilitate compliance with data regulations.

With DOC xPress, you can generate metadata dictionaries with detailed business annotations that help the organization better understand the source of data changes. The data lineage analysis feature helps you track data origin and understand the impact of changes across tables, databases, servers, packages, cubes, and reports. DOC xPress also includes a snapshot feature that helps you compare database versions over time.

 

With DOC xPress, you can turn a cumbersome battle with maintaining documentation into a smooth, seamless process that supports your business objectives.

Explore how DOC xPress simplifies documenting databases

Analyze data lineage 

Easily discover where data comes from, how it’s being used, and how changes to one object in your environment can impact other areas. With DOC xPress, you can visualize data dependencies, pinpoint the source of data in reports. Understanding data origin helps you ensure compliance with data privacy regulations such as GDPR, CASL, and others. 

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Manage metadata discovery

Streamline the process of collecting metadata from across your data estate. Automated scanning of metadata allows documents to be kept up-to-date with little to no interaction by users. With DOC xPress, you can capture important business information such as data timeliness and other attributes, add business definitions to items in the documentation, and create custom fields in the data dictionary.

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Compare metadata versions

Easily capture metadata snapshots so you can compare environments before and after changes. The metadata version comparison capability in DOC xPress records solution configuration, including information about sources, and maintains a version history chain. You can generate documentation based on a specific point in time, and track environment changes over time.

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Automatically document databases

With DOC xPress, you can generate documentation in a variety of formats for SQL Server, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Excel, Hive and many more data sources. The Solution Wizard guides you through configuring the documentation, and you can document environments instantly, without waiting for sources to load. You can use built-in providers to import data or create your own custom providers.

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Learn more about documentation, data governance, and compliance

 

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Webinar: Preparing for the Compliance Audit

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Webinar: Data Lineage and Documentation: How Changes Affect Your Environment

DOC xPress Pricing Options

Note: As of July 1, 2019, DOC xPress pricing is based on licensing by the targeted number of documentation sources (such as SQL Server, SSAS, Power BI, etc.) to reflect common buying scenarios.  A hosted, cloud-based version will be available for preview in fall 2019. 

DOC xPress

Annual Subscription License

$749/month ($8,988 annually)

For up to 10 documentation sources
Includes annual maintenance
 

 

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Enterprise Licensing

Customized for your environment

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Frequently Asked Questions

 

How is DOC xPress licensed?

The on-premises edition of DOC xPress is licensed by documentation source (such as SQL Server, SSAS, or Power BI instance), and covers up to 10 documentation target sources. To license more than 10 sources, contact sales@sentryone.com for an enterprise license quote. A cloud-based version will be available for preview in fall 2019.

Does DOC xPress support encrypted packages and passwords? 

Yes, DOC xPress supports SSIS projects and ISPAC that encrypt passwords. It also supports encrypted SSIS packages.

Can I view a sample document?

You can! Click here to see a sample document.

To view the contents of the .chm example documentation, you will need to right click the file and 'unblock' the file and apply the change. The Windows operating
system automatically ‘blocks’ foreign files of the .chm filetype, which is why you must unblock the file before viewing! The HTML Frameset documentation is built to open in a web browser.
 
The table ‘dbo.Dim_Club’ table on the ‘HigherEdDW’ database shows a great example of documentation, including dependencies, Data Lineage and Data Dictionary entries. The Data Dictionary entries are custom added values into the
documentation to track the Business Owner, Description and GDPR Compliance.
 

What are the system requirements for DOC xPress?

  • SQL Server Integration Services 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014 or 2016
  • BIDS 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 (Business Intelligence Development Studio), or SSDT 2010, 2012 (SQL Server Data Tools)
  • Microsoft ® .NET 3.5 with Service Pack 1
  • Microsoft ® .NET 4.0
  • Microsoft ® SQL Server ® 2012 Transact-SQL ScriptDom x86

Can I customize the way my documentation works?

The DOC xPress templates are used to lend form and reason to the output. They are fully customizable and control what information is included in the documentation.

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