InfoSphere Business Glossary

InfoSphere® Business Glossary is an interactive, web-based tool that enables users to create, manage, and share an enterprise vocabulary and classification system. InfoSphere Business Glossary Anywhere, its companion product, augments InfoSphere Business Glossary by improving productivity, increasing collaboration, and assigning ownership of business data to data stewards.

InfoSphere Business Glossary provides a collaborative authoring environment that helps members of an enterprise create a central collection of enterprise-specific terminology, including relationships to technical information assets. Such a collection, called 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.

From within InfoSphere Business Glossary, designated users can define terms, categories, information governance policies, and information governance rules.

By using InfoSphere Business Glossary and InfoSphere Business Glossary Anywhere, users can gain insight into common business terminology, descriptions of data, ownership of terms and metadata, and how terms relate to information assets.