Dataplex Universal Catalog documentation
Dataplex Universal Catalog is a unified, intelligent governance solution for data and AI assets
in Google Cloud. Dataplex Universal Catalog powers AI, analytics, and business intelligence at scale.
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At the heart of these governance capabilities is a catalog that contains a centralized
inventory of the data assets in your organization. Dataplex Universal Catalog holds business, technical, and
runtime metadata for all of your data. It helps you discover relationships and semantics in the
metadata by applying artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Last updated 2025-06-05 UTC.
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