Course Overview

Applicable for users of software version 6.x. Learn to access Axon inventories to explore key organizational business structures. Utilize Axons Quick and Unison Search capabilities to locate and review business glossaries, systems, datasets, and attribute information, as well as leverage insight maps to visualize and expose impacts, relationships, dependencies, and duplication.

Agenda

Module 1: Axon's Data Governance Methodology 

  • The Evolution of Data Governance

Module 2: Introduction to Axon 

  • Navigating Axon
  • Inventories and Grids
  • Unison Search
  • Maps and Dashboards
  • Quick Search
  • Objects and Properties
  • Lab 1: The Axon Environment
  • Lab 2: Quick Search
  • Lab 3: Unison Search

Module 3: Axon Users 

  • User Permissions and effects
  • My Items
    • Recent/Following/Roles
    • User Information

Module 4: The Glossary 

  • Glossary Overview
  • Lab 1: Glossary Properties and Hierarchies
  • Lab 2: Identifying Ungoverned Glossary Items

Module 5: Change Requests 

  • Change Requests
  • Lab 1: Raising a Change Request

Module 6: Systems, Datasets, Interfaces & Lineage 

  • Lineage Overview
  • System and Data Lineage
  • Lab 1: Reviewing Systems, Datasets and Attributes

Module 7: Insight and Local Maps 

  • Axon Maps
  • Insight and Local Maps
  • Map Palette
  • Map Overlays
  • Lab 1: Navigate Insight Maps
  • Lab 2: Review Local Maps