TS Discovery is the part of Trillium Software® System for data profiling, data monitoring, and data auditing and can be used to pinpoint data quality problems, promote enterprisewide data governance, and measure/monitor key performance indicators.

Why Do People Profile?
People may want to profile for several reasons, for example:
Risk assessment: Can my data support the new initiative?
Project planning: What are realistic time lines and what data, systems, and resources will the project involve?
Project scoping: Which data and systems will be included based on priority, quality, and level of effort required?
Data Quality assessment: How accurate, consistent, and complete is the data within a single system?
System design: What should the target structures look like? What mappings or transformations need to occur?
Checking/monitoring of data:  Does the data continue to meet business requirements after systems have gone live and changes and additions occur?

A solution for business and technical professionals
TS Discovery provides a simple interface that allows business and technical professionals to cooperate intelligently on the data management issues that matter.

With greater insight into their data, business managers gain...
- greater control of the supply chain, from true inventory status to accurate synchronization between manufacturers, distributors and retailers
- real insight into sales effectiveness across product categories, operating units and sales divisions,
- improved understanding of customer behavior, more precise targeting of communications and campaigns,
- accurate KPIs, better input for decision-making, more control of regulatory compliance.

With a better understanding of data status, technical experts gain...
- a more effective way of reducing integration/migration costs and headaches
- the power to validate data against business rules, the ability to correct inefficient processes rooted in incorrect data
- improved data integration and reconciliation across disparate applications, systems and data silos
- ability to collaborate more effectively with business users

TS Discovery provides superior efficiency over other methods and tools, by eliminating the need to design data samples, build queries, and run analyses on production systems. Moreover, Discovery assesses data without the assumptions inherent in query-based profiling, revealing the truth about data content, divergence from documented data rules, and other previously unknown factors that manual profiling can miss. TS Discovery lets you:

• Analyze and report on data values, statistics, frequencies, and ranges.
• Detect poor data conditions and anomalies with proactive "no assumption" analysis of an entire data set.
• Identify mismatches and inconsistencies between metadata and actual data content.
• Create a centralized repository of data, metadata, statistics and documentation.
• Continually monitor data conditions.

At the heart of the TS Discovery solution is the Metabase, a unique repository for storing real data, data definitions, schemas, metadata, gathered statistics, and the results of the Discovery automated analysis. Discovery can load data from multiple source fi les, databases, technologies, and platforms, making it easier and faster to conduct comprehensive data analyses.

Data Monitoring: The easy way to track data quality
For optimum performance, data quality must be tracked over time. Trillium Software delivers the tools that make data monitoring easy for both IT staff and business users.

Because you can only control what you see
TS Discovery and its companion web-based application, TS Insight, give you rapid access to the information your business depends upon. Our tools provide:

Data quality dashboards, scorecards, and trending: Through any Web browser, your business users can rely on TS Insight for trends, scorecards and crystal-clear charts and graphs that reveal the true nature of your data quality—and demonstrate the ROI of your data improvement initiatives.
Ongoing monitoring: TS Discovery allows you to identify data structures and align rule validation tasks that quickly monitor changes in source systems or from third party sources.
E-mail notifications: Alert your key personnel when important business rules are violated—for example, when data values don’t meet predefined requirements or when threshold values are exceeded.
Communicate results with others: You can create HTML reports or export data, metadata and findings in a variety of formats, including the most popular Windows programs.
Activity scheduling: Run analyses whenever you want—including overnight job runs that won’t interfere with daily workloads.