Business Glossary Guide

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Business Term Links

You can link technical metadata (catalog objects), data assets, rule assets, or columns in a profile to business terms. Data assets, rule assets and profiles are not part of the glossary but are assets in the Analyst tool. Catalog objects are in Metadata Manager and Enterprise Information Catalog. You can also link to external reference tables URL that contains the values which are valid for a business term.

A column profile determines the characteristics of columns in a data source, such as value frequency, percentages, and patterns. Rule assets and data assets contain information to support business operations within the enterprise. Catalog object in Metadata Manager and Enterprise Information Catalog contain technical metadata.

For example, if the current business term defines Social Security number, glossary consumers can look up the data asset to view the domain where the Social Security number is available. Glossary consumers can view the business logic that is used to mask Social Security numbers in the rule asset.

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