Business Glossary Getting Started Guide

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Business Glossary Users

The following users interact to manage a business glossary in the Analyst tool.

The following types of administrators manage glossaries users and roles in the Analyst tool:

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.

The following users are responsible for creating, approving, and managing 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 perform 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.

Consumers are readers of Glossary assets. Consumers do not participate in content creation.