Informatica Business Glossary Overview
Business Glossary comprises online glossaries of business terms and policies that define important concepts within an organization. Data stewards create and publish terms that include information such as descriptions, relationships to other terms, and associated categories. Glossaries are stored in a central location for easy lookup by end-users.
Business Glossary is made up of components called Glossary assets. Glossary assets include glossaries, business terms, policies, and categories. A glossary is the high-level container that stores other Glossary assets. A business term defines relevant concepts within the organization, and a policy defines the business purpose that governs practises related to the term. Business terms and policies can be associated with categories, which are descriptive classifications.
Administrators create glossaries and templates that data stewards use to define terms and policies. Data stewards standardize definitions, rules, and valid values for data across the organization. A data steward publishes categories, terms, and policies after the approval process is complete. After a term is published, a glossary consumer can look up terms through the Analyst tool. All glossary users can follow terms and view the history of a term.
Example
An administrator creates a glossary called finance. A data steward creates a term called "fiscal year revenue" and a policy called "Internal Audit." The term defines how revenue must be calculated for a fiscal year. The policy indicates that an internal audit must take place for the revenue every fiscal year. The term and policy are associated with the category called "Accounting." The data steward publishes the term, policy, and category when approval is complete. Glossary consumers can view and follow the term through the Analyst tool.