Google Cloud's Dataplex is an intelligent data fabric that enables organizations to centrally discover, manage, monitor, and govern data across data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts with consistent controls, providing access to trusted data and powering analytics and AI at scale. Dataplex offers a unified interface for data management, allowing users to automate data discovery, classification, and metadata enrichment of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data stored in Google Cloud and beyond. It facilitates the logical organization of data into business-specific domains using lakes and data zones, simplifying data curation, tiering, and archiving. Centralized security and governance features enable policy management, monitoring, and auditing across data silos, supporting distributed data ownership with global oversight. Additionally, Dataplex provides built-in data quality and lineage capabilities, automating data quality assessments and capturing data lineage.