Business assets
The main asset type in the Business Assets glossary is the Business Term. Business terms do not exist in isolation, but are stored in applications, used in reports and processes and may be licensed from external sources and providers. The Business Assets glossary forms an inventory of these assets and the relationships that exist between them, and provides a consistent, commonly understood and agreed upon, set of terms used throughout your organization.
You can assign an owner to a term, and you can identify its relationship to other terms, to contractual obligations, and to governmental regulations. Through graphical depictions of these relationships, you can easily identify the impact that it might have if you choose to redefine a term.
Listed below are some common business asset types:
- Enterprise Business Terms - The most common asset type, used to standardize general business terms.
- Field Names - Names of fields that are typically used in the user interface of business systems.
- Objectives - The data governance goals that an enterprise wants to achieve. Objectives could be driven by a business or technical goal, and should include measurable targets with explicit time frames.
- Reports - Reports created and used across the business.
Technical assets
Technical assets enrich business assets with metadata from external sources.
Although it is possible to create technical assets through the user interface, if you are adding a large number of new technical assets, it is generally recommended that you use Connectors. Connectors are data flows that are built in Data360 Analyze to extract technical metadata from external sources, such as:
- Flat files (for example, XML, CSV).
- Databases (for example, SQL Server, Oracle).
- Applications (for example, SAP).