Business Glossary
Unlock the power of Dawiso's Knowledge Apps starting with our Business Glossary! Define important business terms and enhance data understanding across your organization. Allow your team to access relevant information quickly and efficiently.
About this lesson
Ask three departments what 'active customer' means and you will often get three answers, each correct inside its own reporting. That is not a data quality problem, it is a definition problem, and no amount of pipeline work fixes it. A business glossary is the agreed definition of each term, owned by someone, and attached to the actual tables and reports that implement it. Once a metric links to its definition, a disagreement about a number becomes a question with a documented answer.
Who it is for. Business analysts, data stewards and domain owners who need one shared vocabulary.
Points to cover
- What the Business Glossary is and how to use it
- Create a business domain and understand what it is for
- Types of business glossary objects
- Create a business indicator and link it to an object
- Use autolinking to connect terms to assets automatically
- Open a metadata object and read the definition of the term it is connected to
What you will be able to do
- Organize terms into business domains with a clear owner
- Define a business indicator and link it to the assets that implement it
- Let autolinking connect terms to matching assets instead of doing it by hand
- Trace a figure in a report back to the definition it was calculated from
Go deeper
The product page covers approval workflows and how definitions stay current at scale. Business Glossary
