A business glossary is a set of terms that use business language to define concepts for business users. A business term provides the business definition and usage of a concept. The Business Glossary Desktop is a client that connects to the Metadata Manager Service, which hosts the business glossary. Use the Business Glossary Desktop to look up business terms in a business glossary.

If Business Glossary Desktop is installed on your machine, you can select an object in the Developer tool and use hotkeys or the Search menu to look up the name of the object in the business glossary. You can look up names of objects in Developer tool views, such as the

Object Explorer

view, or names of columns, profiles, and transformation ports in the editor.

For example, a developer wants to find a business term in a business glossary that corresponds to the Sales_Audit data object in the Developer tool. The developer wants to view the business term details to understand the business requirements and the current implementation of the Sales_Audit object in the Developer tool. This can help the developer understand what the data object means and what changes may need to be implemented on the object.