Where InfoSphere Business Glossary fits in the suite architecture

You can use InfoSphere® Business Glossary to create, manage, and share an enterprise vocabulary and classification system. Because InfoSphere Information Server uses a shared metadata repository, the business glossary that you create can be shared with other components in the suite.

You use InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager to import technical information assets into the metadata repository, such as BI reports, logical models, physical schemas, and InfoSphere DataStage® and QualityStage® jobs. You can interact with the assets in the metadata repository by using InfoSphere Metadata Workbench

You can use InfoSphere Discovery to discover data relationships, and then use these relationships in InfoSphere Business Glossary to establish a common vocabulary and promote collaboration across your business teams and IT teams.

The terms and definitions that you create can be linked to assets in the blueprints that you develop with InfoSphere Blueprint Director. You can link terms and definitions to assets in the metadata repository, such as database columns, tables, or schemas that you analyze with InfoSphere Information Analyzer. You can access business glossary content from other components in the suite, such as InfoSphere FastTrack, InfoSphere Metadata Workbench, and InfoSphere Data Architect. By using IBM® InfoSphere Business Glossary Anywhere, you can search your business glossary to understand the meaning of key terms in your business.

InfoSphere Business Glossary also supports integration with other software such as IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence products and IBM Industry Models. InfoSphere Business Glossary Packs for IBM Industry Models provide industry-specific sets of terms that you can use to quickly populate a business glossary.