Business Term Links
You can link data assets and rule assets to the business terms. You can also link external reference tables that contains the values which are valid for a business term.
You can link the following data assets and rule assets to business terms:
- •Technical metadata (catalog objects)
- •Data assets
- •Rule assets
- •Columns
- •Resources
Data assets, rule assets, and profiles are not part of the glossary but are assets in the Analyst tool. Catalog objects are in Metadata Manager. A resource is a catalog object in Live Data Map.
A column profile determines the characteristics of columns in a data source, such as value frequency, percentages, and patterns. Rule assets and data assets contain information to support business operations within the enterprise. Catalog object in Metadata Manager contain technical metadata. A resource in Live Data Map is a catalog object that represents an external data source or metadata repository from where scanners extract metadata.
For example, if the current business term defines Social Security number, glossary consumers can look up the data asset to view the domain where the Social Security number is available. Glossary consumers can view the business logic that is used to mask Social Security numbers in the rule asset.