Announcing Anomalo’s integration with BigQuery Universal Catalog for GCP customers

Data-driven enterprises are doubling down on AI applications and advanced analytics—but the path to trustworthy insights is blocked without strong data governance. Google’s new Universal Catalog, announced at Google Next 2025 as part of its unified data governance framework within BigQuery and Dataplex, is a game-changing step toward making governance smarter and more accessible. Universal Catalog offers a single place to find, understand, and trust data assets across Google Cloud – laying the foundation for trustworthy analytics and scalable AI workloads.

But here’s the kicker: governance only works with high quality, trusted data.

This is why data quality has become the lynchpin to data governance. Without visibility into the completeness, accuracy and anomalies within the data itself, data teams and their business stakeholders are left without trustworthy outputs upon which they can build a data-driven business. 

Trustworthy Data drives Confident Decision-Making

With this integration, Anomalo brings deep data quality context directly into Universal Catalog, driven by our industry-leading unsupervised machine learning.  Now, Anomalo and GCP customers can:

• Identify issues before they become blockers: See real-time freshness and anomaly signals directly within the BigQuery UI
• Avoid tool switching: Access Anomalo’s data quality insights without ever leaving Dataplex or BigQuery
• Empower your entire data team: Analysts, engineers, and governance leads all get a shared understanding of data health.

This isn’t just a convenience – with data quality results available directly in the BigQuery UI, everyone across the organization shares trust in the data, accelerates issue resolution, and is empowered to deliver more reliable analytics and AI.

A Deep Dive into the Anomalo + BigQuery Integration

We’re excited to announce Anomalo’s integration with BigQuery Universal Catalog, embedding intuitive data quality metadata directly alongside your BigQuery data assets.  Leveraging a custom aspect, our integration includes:

• Pass / Fail Summaries: Instant, visual indicators of dataset health directly within the BigQuery UI
• Asset Labels:  Now teams can use data quality asset labels to filter and sort their data estate – for example, sort by tables that have successfully passed their data quality checks
• Deep Links to Anomalo: Speed up time to resolution by diving into Anomalo’s root cause analysis tools with a link directly from BigQuery 

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Anomalo’s data quality check results appear within a Universal Catalog custom aspect.

What this means for our customers

If you’re a data-driven organization building on BigQuery, this integration means you can:

• Catch issues faster without changing how you work
• Reduce context switching and manual overhead
• Drive incremental revenue with confidence by having data quality insights at your fingertips

It’s easier than ever for Google Cloud customers to add Anomalo’s data quality monitoring. Start with the Google Cloud Marketplace listing and get in touch.  Customers can learn more about Anomalo’s Google Cloud integration here.