Business
metadata is recorded in InfoSphere Business
Glossary. Business Glossary provides a Web-based
tool for authoring, managing, and sharing business
metadata. This tool is designed for business users
and subject-matter experts to define data stewards
and record business terminology definitions and
hierarchies. As you can see from the example at the
bottom left of the slide, business and technical
views of information are very different. The
technical view on the left is focused on defining
the structure and location of information, while the
business view on the right is focused on the usage
and characteristics of information, and the rules
that govern it.
For
example, multiple systems may maintain tables of
customer information, however the business may
uncover a requirement for the concept of
“high-value” customers. The business needs a way
to define what a high value customer is, and how to
recognize them (e.g. a high-value customer is a
customer with combined account balances over $10K).
Business glossary provides a tool for recording
these definitions, and relating business concepts
together into taxonomies. This records the business
requirements in the same metadata foundation that
the profiling and analysis process uses.
Silver
bullets:
 |
Provides
comprehensive management of data stewards,
terms, and taxonomies |
|
Allows
users across the organization to share and
collaborate on business definitions through a Web-based
interface |
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Shares
information in the
common metadata framework, making
it available to other tools and users throughout
the organization |
üExtend
collaboration between business & IT
