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Disclaimer: "The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions."
Since couple of years I've been part of the core team that develops one of the IBM® InfoSphere™ Foundation Tools called InfoSphere™ Business Glossary. In this series of posts I present Business Glossary as I understand the product. Also, we discuss few tips and techniques that are useful in industry.
We start with the definition of IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary, which goes like this:IBM® InfoSphere™ Business Glossary provides a collaborative authoring environment that helps you create a central collection of enterprise-specific terminology and its relationships to technical information assets. The resulting collection, called a business glossary, is designed to help you understand business language and the business meaning of information assets like databases, jobs, database tables and columns, and business intelligence reports.
That's a long definition and yours truly is not good with definitions, so, we'll try to put it in other words (hope we don't end up as big as the above definition ;) Simply put, the product supports in creating and maintaining the organization wide business vocabulary. This would let disparate units of an organization talk the same lingo. In addition, the product also lets the user create and maintain relationships to the business terminology and technical information assets like databases, jobs and other things as mentioned above.
Hope the explanation is easy to understand, do let me know if this is not the case..
In the next post, we try to understand the industry problem Business Glossary is addressing, in detail.
Disclaimer: "The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions."
Since couple of years I've been part of the core team that develops one of the IBM® InfoSphere™ Foundation Tools called InfoSphere™ Business Glossary. In this series of posts I present Business Glossary as I understand the product. Also, we discuss few tips and techniques that are useful in industry.
We start with the definition of IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary, which goes like this:IBM® InfoSphere™ Business Glossary provides a collaborative authoring environment that helps you create a central collection of enterprise-specific terminology and its relationships to technical information assets. The resulting collection, called a business glossary, is designed to help you understand business language and the business meaning of information assets like databases, jobs, database tables and columns, and business intelligence reports.
That's a long definition and yours truly is not good with definitions, so, we'll try to put it in other words (hope we don't end up as big as the above definition ;) Simply put, the product supports in creating and maintaining the organization wide business vocabulary. This would let disparate units of an organization talk the same lingo. In addition, the product also lets the user create and maintain relationships to the business terminology and technical information assets like databases, jobs and other things as mentioned above.
Hope the explanation is easy to understand, do let me know if this is not the case..
In the next post, we try to understand the industry problem Business Glossary is addressing, in detail.
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