Focus areas

A focus area is a view that groups analytical requirements. Focus areas can be organized in a hierarchy, each lower level in the hierarchy that represents a more precise focus on a business area. The focus areas that are provided with IIW are defined in Information Governance Catalog (IGC) as terms with properties that describe in business language the meaning of the focus area. They are defined below the Analytical Requirements >> All Focus Areas category and they provide a navigation tree for browsing analytical requirements.

As analytical requirements are grouped into focus areas, focus areas are the highest-level business entry point, from which business professionals can more easily identify a link between the objectives of the project and the business areas that the project must focus on.

Properties

Name (mandatory)

A business meaningful, precise and short name in sentence case (first word starts with a capital letter).

e.g. focus area Catastrophe analysis
e.g. focus area Event analysis
e.g. focus area Claim analysis
e.g. focus area Claim efficiency analysis

Parent category (mandatory)

The parent category is All Focus Areas.

e.g. focus area All Focus Areas is parent category of focus area Catastrophe analysis
e.g. focus area All Focus Areas is parent category of focus area Event analysis
e.g. focus area All Focus Areas is parent category of focus area Claim analysis
e.g. focus area All Focus Areas is parent category of focus area Claim efficiency analysis

Short description (mandatory)

A precise short description of the focus area.

Long description (optional)

A long description of the focus area when the short description is not sufficient to precisely define the focus area.

Label (mandatory)

A label that identifies the type of term, the context in which this term is used, or both. All focus areas are labeled focus area.

e.g. focus area Catastrophe analysis is labeled focus area
e.g. focus area Event analysis is labeled focus area
e.g. focus area Claim analysis is labeled focus area
e.g. focus area Claim efficiency analysis is labeled focus area

Status (mandatory)

Candidate: A term that is proposed by a project team for consideration.
Note: this is the default value for the terms that are delivered in IIW.
Accepted: A term that is accepted by a project team and ready to be proposed as a standard at the enterprise level.
Standard: A term that is approved by the glossary authoring community and considered as a standard at the enterprise level.
Deprecated: A term that is designated as retired, and likely to be replaced by a standard business term.

Referencing Categories (optional)

Categories that reference the focus area. Such categories only provide a view on a subset of focus areas and are typically used to define a project scope.

Associated Terms

The terms that are associated with this focus area. Focus areas are organized in hierarchies by using Is a Type Of or Has Types associations or both.

Is A Type Of

Indicates the parent term in the term type hierarchy. Focus areas have one parent, which is either another focus area or the analytical requirements root term.

e.g. focus area Catastrophe analysis Is A Type Of analytical requirement root Analytical Requirements
e.g. focus area Event analysis Is A Type Of focus area Catastrophe analysis
e.g. focus area Claim analysis Is A Type Of analytical requirement root Analytical Requirements
e.g. focus area Claim efficiency analysis Is A Type Of focus area Claim analysis

Has Types

Zero or more children terms in the terms type hierarchy. Focus areas can have two or more children that are either another focus area or an analytical requirement.

e.g. focus area Catastrophe analysis Has Types focus area Event analysis
e.g. focus area Event analysis Has Types analytical requirement Flood risk portfolio analysis
e.g. focus area Claim analysis Has Types focus area Claim efficiency analysis
e.g. focus area Claim efficiency analysis Has Types analytical requirement Claims audit analysis

Related terms

Terms that are related in some way to this focus area.

Created By

The user ID of the person who creates the term. When a special user ID is used to load the business terms content from the IIW, this user ID can be used to distinguish the IIW content from the customized content.