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title: How to Guides
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slug: /how-to-guides
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---
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# How to Guides
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The How to Guides will give you a walk through on accomplishing the basic to the most advanced things in OpenMetadata. These step-by-step guides will help get an overview of the features and also help explore the various functionalities.
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# Overview of OpenMetadata
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## What is OpenMetadata?
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OpenMetadata is a **unified platform for discovery, observability, and governance** powered by a central metadata repository, in-depth lineage, and seamless team collaboration. It is one of the fastest-growing open-source projects with a vibrant community and adoption by a diverse set of companies in a variety of industry verticals. Based on Open Metadata Standards and APIs, supporting connectors to a wide range of data services, OpenMetadata enables end-to-end metadata management, giving you the freedom to unlock the value of your data assets.
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## Features in OpenMetadata
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OpenMetadata is a complete package for data teams to break down team silos, share data assets from multiple sources securely, collaborate around reliable data, and build a documentation-first data culture in the organization.
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{% tilesContainer %}
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{% tile
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title="Data Discovery"
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description="Discover the right data assets to make timely business decisions."
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link="/how-to-guides/data-discovery"
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icon="discovery"
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/%}
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{% tile
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title="Data Collaboration"
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description="Foster data team collaboration to enhance data understanding."
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link="/how-to-guides/data-collaboration"
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icon="collaboration"
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/%}
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{% tile
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title="Data Quality & Profiler"
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description="Trust your data with quality tests that ensure freshness, & accuracy."
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link="/how-to-guides/data-quality-profiler"
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icon="quality"
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/%}
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{% tile
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title="Data Lineage"
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description="Trace the path of data across tables, pipelines, and dashboards."
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link="/how-to-guides/data-lineage"
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icon="lineage"
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/%}
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{% tile
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title="Data Insights"
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description="Define KPIs and set goals to proactively hone the data culture of your company."
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link="/how-to-guides/data-insights"
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icon="discovery"
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/%}
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{% tile
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title="Data Governance"
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description="Enhance your data platform governance using OpenMetadata."
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link="/how-to-guides/data-governance"
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icon="governance"
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/%}
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{% /tilesContainer %}
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## Quick Start Guides
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{% tilesContainer %}
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{% tile
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title="Admin Guide"
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description="Admin users can get started with OpenMetadata with just three quick and easy steps & know-it-all with the advanced guides."
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link="/how-to-guides/admin-guide"
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icon="administration"
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/%}
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{% tile
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title="Guide for Data Users"
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description="Get to know the basics of OpenMetadata and about the data assets that you can explore in the all-in-one platform."
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link="/how-to-guides/guide-for-data-users"
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icon="steward"
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/%}
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{% /tilesContainer %}
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## How OpenMetadata helps Data Teams?
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OpenMetadata is a complete package for data teams to break down team silos, share data assets from multiple sources securely, collaborate around data, and build a documentation-first data culture in the organization.
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{% note %}
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- Centralized, **Single Source of Truth** for all your metadata.
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- **[Discover](/how-to-guides/data-discovery)** the right assets in time and reduce dependencies.
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- Foster **[Team Collaboration](/how-to-guides/data-collaboration)** with conversations, tasks, announcements, and alerts in real time.
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- Build trust in your data with **[Data Quality Tests](/how-to-guides/data-quality-profiler)** to ensure completeness and accuracy.
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- Track your data evolution with end-to-end **[Data Lineage](/how-to-guides/data-lineage)**.
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- Secure access to sensitive data by defining **[Roles and Policies](/how-to-guides/admin-guide-roles-policies)**.
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- Enhance organizational **[Data Culture](/how-to-guides/data-insights)** to gain crucial insights to drive innovation.
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- Define your **[Glossary](/how-to-guides/data-governance/glossary-classification)** to build a common understanding of terms within your organization.
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- Implement **[Data Governance](/how-to-guides/data-governance)** to maintain data integrity, security, and compliance.
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{% /note %}
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