Business category properties

A business category is a high-level business area that helps to organize business terms. Business categories provided with IBM Industry Models are defined in Information Governance Catalog (IGC) as categories with properties that describe in business language the meaning of the business category. The business categories are defined below the Business Terms category and provide a navigation tree for browsing business terms.

A business category must:

Be business meaningful
Have a description must be clear enough to avoid ambiguity when assigning a business term
Be limited in number to facilitate the category assignment and to allow the user to easily remember the business category definitions
Not overlap with another business category
Be at a similar level of granularity as the other business categories

Since a business category is a high-level grouping of business terms, it is expected to be generic so that it is applicable to all its business terms.

Properties

Parent category (mandatory)

The parent category is Business Terms.

Note: IBM Industry Models are delivered with one level of business categories to facilitate the business category assignment. There is no intention to define additional levels of categories, since the business terms are not the result of a modeling activity, but the representation of the business terminology without complex and sophisticated classification. business terms modeling takes place in the data models.

Name (mandatory)

A business-meaningful, precise and short name in title case (all words start with a capital letter).

e.g. business category Account
e.g. business category Agreement
e.g. business category Allergy
e.g. business category Claim
e.g. business category Common
e.g. business category Diagnosis
e.g. business category Location
e.g. business category Performance
e.g. business category Procedure

Short description (mandatory)

A precise and short description of the business category.

e.g. business category Claim has for short description This category groups terms describing the demand for money, services or goods from one party to another party.
e.g. business category Location has for short description This category groups terms describing a place where something can be found, a destination of information or a bounded area.

Long description (optional)

A long description of the business category when the short description is not sufficient to precisely define the business category.

Subcategories (optional)

A business category can hold a Secondary Terms subcategory, which includes all the business terms labeled secondary term that describe another business term. This allows filtering secondary terms when browsing a business category from the category tree.

Included terms (optional)

The business terms that match the business category description and belong to this business category.

e.g. business category Business Terms/Account includes business term Account entry
e.g. business category Business Terms/Allergy includes business term Allergen severity
e.g. business category Business Terms/Healthcare Event includes business term Event
e.g. business category Business Terms/Order includes business term Laboratory order