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MANTA release 35: Automated

lineage for Kafka and SAP HANA,

enhancements to existing Snowflake,

Power BI and more

aster Data Management
(MDM) partner MANTA has
Mreleased version 35 of its
unified lineage platform. The MANTA
platform automatically scans your
organisation’s data environment, to build
a powerful map of all data flows and
deliver it through a non-technical user
interface (UI) to give them full visibility
and control of their data pipelines.
Release 35 adds two popular, modern
data sources, extends existing scanners
for improved lineage, and simplifies
administration and access management.
“Data lineage is important to MANTA connecting to Confluent Platform Schema Registry for extracting the schemas contained in
Kafka topics.
any organisation wishing to deliver
trusted analytics timeously, yet it is Additionally, release 35 adds lineage scanning for SAP Hana, which includes the
impossible to achieve using manual automated collection of dictionary metadata and external script analysis via lineage parsing
methods of documentation,” says for independent SQL scripts in a separate sub-directory.
Gary Allemann, MD at Master Data
Management. “MANTA’s track record in Enhancements to Snowflake and Power BI scanners
adding emerging sources to its already Release 35 brings several improvements and enhancements to existing scanners. After
impressive list of scanners, helps to including support for COPY INTO attributes in Snowflake as part of Release 34, this release
future proof any investment made by brings new capabilities to the Snowflake scanner.
customers as they modernise their data Most significantly, they have added scanning support for transformation expressions,
landscapes.” which are recognised by MANTA active tags and provide visibility for business rules across
the data pipeline. This gives MANTA the ability to display business tools that are part of the
Introducing new scanners for Snowflake investment.
modern technologies Release 35 also includes an update to the MANTA Power BI scanner, complementing
Release 35 introduces scanners for two Microsoft’s enhancements to the Power BI Admin API. This update provides for better access
popular new data sources: to metadata, resulting in a more complete data lineage.
The new scanner for Kafka includes
support for StreamSets and DataStage
scanners. The Kafka scanner supports
metadata harvesting from the Confluent
registry and the ability to define a full
Kafka server, and topic hierarchy with a
detailed metadata definition as described
by Avro and JSON Schemas. MANTA support for parsing and analysis of Snowflake Transformation Expressions

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