InfoSphere Business Glossary

IBM® InfoSphere® Business Glossary enables users to create, manage and share an enterprise vocabulary and classification system

Create, search and manage a common vocabulary for business and IT users to collaborate with using Business Glossary and Business Glossary Anywhere.

• Web-based management, search, and exploration of business terms and categories provide business users and data stewards with intuitive interfaces that require zero administration or training.

• Viewing an audit trail of what changed, why it changed, and by whom it changed increases trust and understanding of information that is critical for long-term management and governance of a business glossary.

• Drill-down access to technical metadata helps users view supporting technical artifacts within their business context.

• Collaborative environment allows Business Glossary users to share, enrich and grow information in collaboration with data profilers, data modelers, ETL developers, and business analysts.

• Powerful glossary import and export capabilities allow administrators to bring existing fragmented and home-grown glossaries into a single enterprise glossary for use by a wider business audience, perform full or selective exports to share content between multiple glossary instances, and even make programmatic updates to glossary content from other applications.

• Data steward management increases trust in information as term integrity and governance is assigned to responsible stewards.

• Accelerated deployment of glossaries with a rich set of industry specific content developed over years of proven experience, provides a quick ROI.

• Access from any application with a click of a button to see a pop up definition window, or directly embeddable into any application, InfoSphere Business Glossary Anywhere allows users to view and author business definitions without loss of context or focus.

• Globalization support to simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese allows customers around the world to use InfoSphere Business Glossary and Business Glossary Anywhere in their native language.

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