IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary

IBM® InfoSphere® Business Glossary is an interactive, web-based tool that enables users to create, manage, and share an enterprise vocabulary and classification system. A business glossary is designed to help users understand business language and the business meaning of information assets like databases, jobs, database tables and columns, and business intelligence reports. In addition to the business glossary assets of categories, terms, information governance policies, and information governance rules, the business glossary also contains information about other assets that are in the metadata repository, such as database tables, jobs, and reports.

Information roadmap
This document provides links to the information resources that are available for InfoSphere Business Glossary and InfoSphere Business Glossary Anywhere.

Overview
Introduces IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary and explains how to access the business glossary.

Integrating with other software
You can integrate InfoSphere Business Glossary with other software products as well as custom applications.

Business glossary concepts
You should be familiar with certain concepts before you start using InfoSphere Business Glossary.

Planning, designing, and deploying a glossary
Learn the steps needed to establish a business glossary for your enterprise.

Opening InfoSphere Business Glossary
You can open  InfoSphere Business Glossary for administering, authoring, and viewing the business glossary with a web browser.

Administering the business glossary
You perform most InfoSphere Business Glossary administrative tasks from the Administration tab. If the workflow feature is enabled, you perform tasks related to publishing the business glossary from the development business glossary tab.

Authoring business glossary content
Users with the appropriate security roles can create and modify business glossary terms and categories.

Viewing business glossary content
You can view information in the business glossary in a variety of ways; for example, by browsing and by searching.

Looking up terms with InfoSphere Business Glossary Anywhere
InfoSphere Business Glossary Anywhere gives you the business definition of a term or a category while working in any desktop application.

Accessing business glossary content from Eclipse applications
InfoSphere Business Glossary includes an Eclipse plug-in component. This plug-in provides access to business glossary content from within any Eclipse-based application.

Developing and extending applications
You can create custom applications or extend existing applications to take advantage of InfoSphere Business Glossary.

Glossary
This glossary contains terms and definitions that are used in the InfoSphere Business Glossary product interface and documentation.