{"id":3164,"date":"2021-12-23T17:50:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.encaptechno.com\/blog\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2021-12-23T17:50:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T12:20:29","slug":"what-is-zoho-dataprep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.encaptechno.com\/blog\/what-is-zoho-dataprep\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Zoho DataPrep? | Self Service Data Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe productivity provider SaaS provided Zoho entered the business intelligence platform field in July 2021. Zoho announced an <\/span>AI-powered data preparation<\/b>, business intelligence, and self-service platform application that combined the new Zoho DataPrep application with an enhanced version of Zoho Analytics.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was to win over business users with a combination of features that focused on ease of use, supporting the data preparation, and the ability to blend internal data with the outside data sources. Zoho DataPrep application is self-service data preparation and management tool that uses machine learning to help business users integrate, transform, enrich, transform, and catalog data for creating and managing data pipelines.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zoho has also added an integrated enterprise portal builder called Zoho Sites and presentation software called Zoho Show to the platform. This is for helping business users put their ideas into context. Basically, Zoho aspires to reduce any friction by empowering business users to drive decisions with data and without learning any new tools.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this blog, we will learn about Zoho DataPrep in complete detail. So let\u2019s begin.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>What is Zoho DataPrep?<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Zoho DataPrep is data<\/span> cleaning software<\/b> that enables organizations to prepare high-quality data by automatically looking for errors, discovering data patterns, cleaning, transforming, and enriching data. This is without any need for coding. It also helps in setting up data pipelines for syncing prepared data to Zoho Analytics or to any data warehouses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using Zoho DataPrep you can connect, cleanse, transform, enrich, schedule, and export data with ease. In addition, you can also catalog and manage how the prepared data is consumed with fine-grained controls. It is also possible to import data into Zoho DataPrep from over 50+ data sources such as files, FTP, feeds, cloud storage, databases, and data warehouses while making it simple to bring the data together.<\/span><\/p>\n

The functions of Zoho DataPrep are:<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>1. Cleansing and Improving Data Quality<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Zoho DataPrep helps in automatically profiling data for viewing distribution, outliers, statistics, and data quality. You can clean and improve data quality by removing duplicates, fixing invalid data, and missing values.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>2. Transforming Data<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Using the <\/span>AI-powered data preparations<\/b> and intelligent suggestions, one can apply over 250 transforms and prepare the data. You can learn to take advantage of machine learning to enrich data with sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, language detection, and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>3. Data Lineage<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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You can track every change applied to the data using ruleset. It is also possible to modify, disable, and remove any changes at any point in time. You can reuse rulesets for applying the same set of changes in other datasets while removing automated data preparation.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>4. Data Catalog<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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The Zoho DataPrep can be used to catalog and manage datasets by categories, data quality, custom tags, data readiness, and much more. You can perform a system-wide metadata search powered by Zia for improving discoverability.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>5. End to end data Pipelines<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

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The organizations continue to gather data each day and cleaning it is never a one-time task. It includes setting up pipelines by automating imports, preparing data using rule sets, and exporting to destinations. This status can be monitored and one can also get notified in case there are any changes to improve the data quality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Basically, you should use Zoho DataPrep because it helps in doing the below-mentioned things.<\/span><\/p>\n