Business Data Network

The business data network gives business and IT staffs a Web-based interface to collaborate on the creation and management of business terms. Users can create descriptions and associated requirements of a term, providing the technical team with guidance on the creation of business rules.

Benefits

• Improve business and IT collaboration on data management projects.
• Rapidly take a data governance program from concept to reality.
• Create a single source for business terminology across the enterprise.

Features

• Business users can define and document terms.
• Data architects can use terms to align data.
• Technical data managers can implement jobs and rules to manage master data.
• Graphically explore business terms and categories.
• View relationships across data elements.
• Use audit trails to know which data was changed and who changed it.
• Store and apply definitions to guide all data management processes.
• Reuse, manage and report on the use of a single glossary.
• Safeguard sensitive or protected information through read-only access to glossary content data.