Creating Business Terms

Business Glossary Manager enables you to create business terms. They enable you to maintain a common vocabulary across your organization. Catalogs are the containers for business terms and you need to create a catalog before creating business terms.

To create catalogs, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Application Menu > Data Literacy > Business Glossary Manager.
  2. In the Workspace pane, right-click the Business Terms node.
  3. Click New Catalog.

    4. The New Catalog page appears.

  4. Enter Catalog Name and Catalog Description.

    5. For example:

    • Catalog Name - Customers Business
    • Catalog Description - The catalog contains business terms of the organization.
  5. Click .

    6. A catalog is created and added to the catalog tree.

Once a catalog has been created, you can create business terms under it.

To create business terms, follow these steps:

  1. In Workspace, under the Business Terms node, right-click the catalog node.
  2. Click New Business Term.
    The New Business Term Definition page appears.
  3. Enter appropriate values to the fields. Fields marked with a red asterisk are mandatory.
    Refer to the following table for field descriptions.

    4. Field Name

    Description

    Business Term

    Specifies the name of the business term.

    For example, Account.

    Definition

    Specifies the definition of the business term.

    For example: An Account contains data for a party.

    Description

    Specifies the description about the business term.

    For example: Account contains data for posting, payments, debt recovery, and taxes.

    Notes

    Specifies the reference notes, if any.

    For example: The data for posting, payments, debt recovery, and taxes was imported from the Account.xlsx file.

    Business Term Image

    Drag and drop a picture of business term or click to browse and upload a picture.

    Acronym

    Specifies whether the business term is an acronym.

    Data Steward

    Specifies the name of the data steward responsible for the business term.

    For example, Jane Doe.

    For more information on configuring list of data stewards, refer to the Configuring Data Stewards topic.
  4. Click .
    A business term is created and added to the catalog.

Once, a business term is created you can define associations for business terms.

You can also create Business Policies, Business Rules, and other business assets in the Business Glossary Manager. For more information on creating business assets, refer to the Managing Business Glossary section.