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Metadata for the Business
Bridging the Gap Between Business and Technical

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InfoLibrarian™ Provides a rich set of tools for managing and publishing Enterpise Vocabularies, Classification Systems and to map those definitions to existing data, applications and processes.

 

InfoLibrarian™ presents Business Metadata in the following ways
  • Create and manage Business Glossaries.
  • Stewardship.
  • Web based Constribution and Change Mangement.
  • Create and manage Taxonomies.
  • Graphical representation of subject matter and categories that your users can drill through.
  • Business views present descriptions and names in the terminology understood by the business users. 
  • Visual maps that show the inter-relationships between the different data points within IT systems.
  • You can categorize it the way you want. 
  • InfoLibrarian can deliver your managed Business and Technical Metadata to end users and tools via SQL, or SOA web services accross your intranet or in the Cloud

Business Metadata
Business Metadata describes technical computer data and applications in a way that is understandable to the business users.  Business Metadata hides technological constraints by mapping business language or glossary to the technical systems.
  • Context
  • Understanability
  • Search ability
  • Usability

Business Metadata answers the following questions:
  •  What are the valid values?
  •  Where did this data come from?
  •  How do I get more information?
  •  Is there data that can help me?
Business Metadata provides users with logical drilldown
  • Are there any reports for me?
  • Is this table going to work?
  • Show an inventory of reports. 
  • How good is the data?
  • Is this data suitable for my analysis?
  • Is the data fresh?
  • How current or when was it last updated?
  • Is there a single version of the truth?

What is a Business Rule?


A business rule is guidance that there is an obligation concerning conduct, action, practice, or procedure within a particular activity or sphere.  

What is A Business Term?


A business term is any term that is familiar to the business as opposed to technical terms which are used by technical people. However, both may describe the same thing in different language. Simply stated, often the main hindrance to business people using computer based systems is that they were built by technical people and the terminology tends to be technical making them difficult to understand. 

Technical Metadata


Technical Metadata supports developers and technical personnel in linking tools, applications, and systems into a solution. For example, it explains database structure, installed applications, and server systems. Best practices dictate that a data warehouse should be Metadata driven to be successful.

Technical metadata provides details about

  • Source destination information
  • Data element definition
  • Impact analysis
  • Lineage analysis
  • Data dictionaries
  • Audit ability- by capturing entitlement, definitions and occurrences of data points within your systems

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InfoLibrarian's open framework allows you the freedom to use its straightforward tools to access your Metadata and extend your solution into the future.

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