Business Terms
You can look up business terms in the Business Glossary Desktop. You can view business terms and perform business term tasks based on the license for Metadata Manager.
A business glossary is a set of terms that use business language to define concepts for business users. A business term provides the business definition and usage of a concept.
The Business Glossary Desktop is a client that connects to the Metadata Manager Service, which hosts the business glossary. You must have the Business Glossary Desktop open before you can look up an Analyst tool object name. You can look up the meaning of an Analyst tool object name as a business term in the Business Glossary Desktop to understand its business requirement and current implementation.
Metadata Manager hosts business glossaries. You must associate a Metadata Manager Service with the Analyst Service to browse a Metadata Manager business glossary from the Analyst tool. You can view the business terms in a business glossary or view business terms grouped by category. You can edit Metadata Manager business terms.
You can search for Metadata Manager objects in the Metadata Manager repository by a Metadata Manager business term. You can select Metadata Manager objects from the search results and import these as data objects in the Analyst tool. You cannot add a Metadata Manager business term to the Metadata Manager business glossary.