Luncheon Webinar Series July 29, 2010

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1 Luncheon Webinar Series July 29, 2010 Business Glossary & Business Glossary Anywhere Sponsored By: 1

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3 Business Glossary Business Glossary Anywhere IBM Information Server Information Management

4 Metadata Primer B Business Metadata Business rules, Definitions, Terminology, Glossaries, Algorithms and Lineage using business language Audience: Business users T Technical Metadata Defines Source and Target systems, their Table and Fields structures and attributes, Derivations and Dependencies Audience: Specific Tool Users BI, ETL, Profiling, Modeling O Operational Metadata Information about application runs: their frequency, record counts, component by component analysis and other statistics Audience: Operations, Management Literally, data about data that describes your company s information from both a business and a technical perspective

5 Understanding the Value of Business Metadata The Language of the Business, independent of technology used to: Define authoritative meaning Increase understanding throughout the enterprise Establish responsibility, accountability, & traceability Represent business hierarchies Document business descriptions, examples, abbreviations and synonyms Find relevant information assets Encourage use, and reuse, of correct terminology Must be managed by those that understand the meaning & importance of the information assets to the business

6 InfoSphere Business Glossary Create and manage business vocabulary and relationships Features Facilitate business & IT communications via a common business vocabulary Web based interface shared across enterprise business teams Allows creation of stewards & assignment of their responsibilities for terms & assets. Simple search Link business terms to information assets Benefits Aligns the efforts of IT with the goals of the business Provides business context to information technology assets Establishes responsibility and accountability in accordance with data governance policies Hierarchical view and navigation

7 InfoSphere Business Glossary Anywhere Access the right terminology from anywhere Features Light desktop client for quick search of the glossary without leaving the current application REST API web service for integrating glossary content in custom applications, web portals, mashups and workflow systems BG Anywhere for in-context text-scrape or search REST API for integration of glossary content anywhere Benefits The right information when you need it: Semantic Meaning Relevant Information Assets Stewardship Consumable interfaces encourage use, and reuse, of correct terminology throughout the enterprise Consistent semantic understanding accelerates projects and yields higher quality

8 Business Glossary Anywhere Eclipse Integration Integration with IBM Rational Software Architect a UML Modeling Tool What is UML? Unified Modeling Language A standard modeling language used for constructing an architechtural blue print for business processes, database schemas, etc. Ensure that IT Projects are driven by Business Objectives Example: Design a UML diagram for a business process model Receive Order Handle Payment Issue Invoice Ship Items Business Process Elements such as Order can be named and described based on the Glossary term and description The Business Process Model generated from this UML diagram will carry this information through the lifecycle of the project Glossary Explorer displays business term hierarchy Drag and Drop from the Glossary Explorer automatically creates a UML class for Order with the correct name and description Auto-suggest UML class names based on glossary terms

9 Business Glossary: For Every Enterprise User Examples of users include: General Business Users Business Analysts Data Analysts BI and ETL Developers Data Stewards Subject Matter Experts Business Glossary Authors Business Glossary Administrators

10 Streamline Business & IT Understanding Database = DB2 Schema = NAACCT Table = DLYTRANS Column = TAXVL data type = Decimal (14,2) Derivation: SUM(TRNTXAMT) Achieve a common vocabulary between business & technical users Category: Costs Term: Tax Expense Full Name: Tax to be paid on Gross Income The expense due to taxes.. (John Walsh is responsible for updates. 90% reliable source) Status: CURRENT Shared Information Server metadata repository InfoSphere DataStage InfoSphere Business Glossary

11 Customize the Data Create simple, custom attributes to extend the meaning of business Terms Include rich hyperlinks to access external websites or files

12 Collaborate and Share Feedback GL Organizational Unit STEWARD: Controllers Office FORMAT: X(7) DEFINITION: A seven digit number designating the organizational unit to which this account belongs. Author Standard Definitions Annotate and Share Feedback I ve noticed that the last two digits of the GL Organizational Unit, which indicate the subdepartment, are often blank.

13 Data Stewardship Who is responsible for this Term? Who is responsible for this Category? Who is responsible for this Asset? View Contact Information for Steward

14 Extend Business Information Map Business Terms to Data Assets in Metadata Server Categorize Data Assets according to Business Logic Find and view relevant details of Data Assets View the Stewardship of Data Assets

15 Audit Term Changes over Time Automatically track changes to terms Add comments to describe why changes were made View historical values of term properties Track meaning over time

16 InfoSphere Business Glossary - Benefits Enables data governance Common language supports compliance regulations such as Basel II Represent and expose business relationships Track history of changes Accountability and responsibility Assign stewards as single point of contact Improved productivity Administrators can tailor the tool to the needs of their business users Access enterprise information you need when you need it Increased collaboration Capture and share annotations between team members Greater understanding of the context of information More prevalent use and reuse of trusted information 16

17 Thank you Information Management

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