Category areas and subcategories in Knowledge Accelerators

There are five main category areas: Business Core Vocabulary, Business Performance Indicators, Business Scopes, Industry Alignment Vocabularies, and Synonyms that contain many related subcategories.

A subcategory is a high-level business area, which is intended to show all the terms for a vocabulary, that relate to a particular business area. These business areas can be either conceptual, for example Product or Location, or can be business-specific, for example Risk & Compliance, Customer etc.

Any term in the vocabulary can have many referencing relationships to different subcategories within that vocabulary.

A subcategory must:
  • Have a business meaningful name.
  • Have a generic name that is applicable as a high-level grouping of all its business terms.
  • Have a description that must be clear enough to avoid ambiguity when assigning a business term to it
  • Not overlap with another subcategory.
  • Be at a similar level of granularity as the other subcategories.
The following are examples of the way categories are used in the components of the Knowledge Accelerators: