Want an easier way to automatically generate documentation from multiple data sources? Wish you had a better understanding of the origin of your data—and who's handled that data?
SentryOne Document delivers powerful documentation and data lineage analysis capabilities in a cloud or software solution. With SentryOne Document, you can easily maintain up-to-date documentation and ensure compliance with business rules and data privacy regulations by accurately tracking data lineage.
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SentryOne Document is available as a cloud or installed software solution
Whether you choose the installed or cloud version of SentryOne Document, both of these options have the same features. There are a few unique benefits to each option.
SentryOne Document Cloud
By choosing the cloud solution, you leave the hosting to us and have less to manage.
- Get up and running quickly. Simply start your account, add your data sources, and start documenting and analyzing.
- Less to manage. All of the SentryOne Document components are hosted by SentryOne, so you can focus on strategically managing your data estate.
- Access from anywhere. You can log in from any device to manage documentation tasks, run analyses, and view logs.
- Frequent, easy updates. SentryOne Document is available as a subscription service, so your solution will always be up to date.
SentryOne Document Software
With the software solution, you'll have full control over configuration and how data is stored and accessed.
- Self-managed. All components are hosted on-premises, giving full control to companies for how their data is stored and accessed.
- Adhere to company preferences. Addresses industries that require local data stores or not yet ready to utilize a cloud solution.
- Highly configurable. You have the ability to manage the data store where your SentryOne Document data is stored.
- Access for everyone. SentryOne Document is hosted on an internal IIS server, giving everyone in your organization seamless access.
Right-size your solution to your environment
SentryOne Document is available in three tiers so you can choose the capabilities that fit your needs best:
Essentials
Automatically document multiple data sources and easily search documentation
Standard
Generate and search documentation, view documentation history, manage metadata snapshots, and create data dictionaries
Premium
Master your data estate with end-to-end documentation capabilities, including data lineage and impact analysis to track data origin and data dependencies across your environment
Automatically document multiple data sources
With SentryOne Document, you can automatically document data sources including:
- SQL Server
- SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
- SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
- SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly Azure SQL Data Warehouse)
- Salesforce
- Excel
- Tableau
- And more!
SentryOne Document efficiently and accurately documents your entire Microsoft Data Platform. You can configure the settings to ensure that you always have up-to-date documentation, which also helps ensure compliance with business rules and data regulations. Plus, you can export documentation in HTML format.
Visually analyze data lineage
Accurately analyzing the origin of your data—and where it can move throughout your solutions—is critical for ensuring data integrity and compliance with business rules and data privacy regulations.
SentryOne Document gives you a visual display of data lineage, so you can immediately understand data dependencies across the entire data estate.
Build a data dictionary
After you've generated documentation, you can use SentryOne Document to build a data dictionary to supplement the metadata, including:
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Specifying who deployed a report
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Showing who's responsible for maintenance of a database
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Adding business definitions to technical items in the documentation
- Search your data dictionary
To learn more, check out this blog post and this how-to video.
Track changes in your documentation at different points in time
With SentryOne Document, you can compare historical documentation with any other historical (or current) documentation. This capability helps your team see changes between two solutions, or the same solution at different points in time, comparing differences in the generated documentation.
Create a clear map of your Salesforce data
Salesforce developers and analysts can make sense of their CRM data by using SentryOne Document to view the structure of Salesforce data, including dependencies among Salesforce objects (such as fields, accounts, leads), workflows, and processes. SentryOne Document saves time and resources by accelerating on-boarding, data cleanup, and automations.
Understanding Dependencies in your SQL Server Estate
The Environment Map in SentryOne Document leverages data collected from the SQL Sentry database to create a clear map of the applications, users, client, and processes that are connected to your servers in your SQL Server environment.
What’s new in SentryOne Document for Environment Map:
- Environment Map as a data source
- Lineage text view
- Ability to filter object types in lineage graph
- Shorter snapshot duration with the ability to limit what is produced for Environment Map
- Ability to see lineage at the server level
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Whether you choose the installed or cloud version of SentryOne Document, both of these options have the same features.
Cloud Solution
Installed Solution
Comparing SentryOne Document Editions
Here's a comparison of capabilities among SentryOne Document editions (Essentials, Standard, and Premium).
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SentryOne Document Standard |
SentryOne Document Premium |
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| Ability to export documentation | |
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