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Business Glossary
Agree on vocabulary before you start talking about the data
If you want to know measure something, you first need to agree on what that is. Ask different people and you’ll probably get different definitions. Define the language of your organization in a business glossary.
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Build and share a universal glossary of business terms, policies and rules
Dataedo Business Glossary helps you build and share a universal vocabulary of business terms with their definitions and mapping to the data.
Map business vocabulary to your data
Build a business glossary and map it to the data dictionary of your entire data ecosystem in shared metadata repository.
Add more meaning to your data
When browsing a data dictionary of specific application you can see the universal business definition of the entity related to the element of this field or table.
Find key data in all your databases easily
Databases can be huge and complex with thousands of tables and many more fields. With a business glossary-data dictionary links it is easy to find all occurrences of key data in all your databases.
Simplify description of technical metadata
It is easier for technical people to create a technical data dictionary. They can focus on application specific attributes and simply link existing business definitions from the glossary created by the business users.
Share business glossary with complete documentation
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Easily export your documentation into lightweight and easily shareable interactive HTML documents. Self-host them on your drive or any web server.
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Export metadata to PDF & Excel
Additionally, you can quickly export your documentation to PDF and Excel files.
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Build a single source of truth about your data
Business glossary is a go to reference place where everyone in your organization can go for the answers on how to read, understand and find the data.
Help everyone create and read the reports
Established universal definitions of key concepts accelerate articulation of requirements for new reports and analytics, the design of the solution and later understanding of the presented numbers.
Better collaboration between departments,
including business-IT
Allow everyone in the organization to speak the same language, break down silos and build collaboration, including on the line between business and IT.
Empower your business to use data
With a business glossary mapped to data dictionary your business can be more self-reliant and from navigate from business-oriented vocabulary to the physical data, otherwise accessible only to the tech-geeks who know the complicated structure of the databases.
Use cases
ERP and Applications
Add a layer of your organization’s vocabulary to the inadequate, confusing and generic naming in databases of packaged applications.
Enterprise Architecture
Define and share key entities of your enterprise data model and map it to physical data model.
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