Web URL based Tool Integration (Open in Tool)

Talend Data Catalog captures the metadata from numerous Business Intelligence (BI) and reporting tools and environments. One may then curate and govern this metadata. In this way, Talend Data Catalog often becomes a central BI Catalog for end-users who are interested in understanding what is available in the BI systems available, regardless of vendor or server. Direct integration between the BI environments and Talend Data Catalog is then critical to the success of such a metadata catalog.

Any object page (e.g. a Table column) offers a Related Reports tab listing any BI reports in any BI tool using that data through data flow lineage.

In particular, two major capabilities are explored:

• How to invoke the third-party BI tools directly from within Talend Data Catalog for reports harvested. This ability is detailed in managing metadata model.
• How to _call back_ to Talend Data Catalog from those third-party BI tools for seamless use of the cataloging capabilities while user are looking at reports in the BI environment.

Talend Data Catalog provides a mechanism for opening harvested reports imported from business intelligence (BI) / reporting tools in the actual tool itself. Please see Open Reports in a Business Intelligence Tool.