This topic describes how to create a business asset.
Note: This topic describes how to create a business asset. The basic steps can also be applied to technical assets, rules, models and policies. The asset types that are available for your organization are defined by an administrator. If you are an administrator and want more information on creating new asset types, see Establishing asset types
Tip: Before adding new business assets, consider whether a team of stakeholders is needed to carry out a data analysis to identify and define potential business terms. In general, each term should be assigned an owner.
Tip: If you are an administrator and have a number of items to enter, you can bulk load them into the system by importing from a spreadsheet. See Bulk loading for more details.
Depending on how your organization uses workflows, an approval workflow for the creation of a new business term may be started. The next step is typically for a data steward to complete the definition of the asset and request certification from the asset owner. As an asset owner, you will likely need to consider the following:
- Ensure that the correct users or groups have responsibility for the item, see Assigning ownership of assets.
- Capture relationships to models, grouping your asset into taxonomies and hierarchies, capture relationships to quality rules and policies to govern your asset, and capture relationships to other assets, such as business terms, applications, processes and reports. See Defining relationships between assets.
For more information on workflows, see Following workflows and Establishing workflows.