Business Glossary Users
A glossary can have different types of users. The different types of users interact differently with the glossary.
Users can use business glossary in the following ways:
- •Administering users and managing glossaries
- •Creating and managing content
- •Reading content
Glossary Administrators
To manage glossaries, Business Glossary administrators change business initiative, business term, category and policy templates and control the tasks that users can perform.
The following types of administrators manage glossaries users and roles:
- Service administrators
- Creates glossaries and appoints glossary administrators to perform administrative duties on individual glossaries.
- Glossary administrators
Assigns privileges or roles to other glossary users based on the tasks that they perform. Customizes asset templates. An organization can create multiple glossaries. Every glossary can have a different glossary administrator.
Glossary Content Managers
Different users collaborate to publish Glossary assets.
The following users are responsible to create, approve, and manage Glossary assets:
- Data steward
- Understands requirements of the department or organization and adds business terms, policies, and categories to glossaries. Defines rules and determines valid values for business term data. Works with the glossary administrator to customize policy and business term pages. Data stewards work with subject matter experts, stakeholders, and glossary owners to complete tasks.
- Stakeholders
- Reviews business terms and policies that data stewards propose. Stakeholders are business users who participate in the approval of the proposed business terms and policies.
- Owners
- Owns glossaries, business terms, and policies. Owners have no tasks to perform but are leaders of business units or functional areas. Owners have the required functional expertise and experience to be responsible for the glossary and the contents of the glossary.
Glossary Consumers
Consumers are readers of Glossary assets. Consumers do not participate in content creation, but look up Glossary assets.