IBM® InfoSphere® Business Glossary enables users to create, manage and share an enterprise vocabulary and classification system
Create, search and manage a common vocabulary for business and IT users to collaborate with using Business Glossary and Business Glossary Anywhere.
- Web-based management, search, and exploration of business terms and categories provide business users and data stewards with intuitive interfaces that require zero administration or training.
- Viewing an audit trail of what changed, why it changed, and by whom it changed increases trust and understanding of information that is critical for long-term management and governance of a business glossary.
- Drill-down access to technical metadata helps users view supporting technical artifacts within their business context.
- Collaborative environment allows Business Glossary users to share, enrich and grow information in collaboration with data profilers, data modelers, ETL developers, and business analysts.
- Powerful glossary import and export capabilities allow administrators to bring existing fragmented and home-grown glossaries into a single enterprise glossary for use by a wider business audience, perform full or selective exports to share content between multiple glossary instances, and even make programmatic updates to glossary content from other applications.
- Data steward management increases trust in information as term integrity and governance is assigned to responsible stewards.
- Accelerated deployment of glossaries with a rich set of industry specific content developed over years of proven experience, provides a quick ROI.
- Access from any application with a click of a button to see a pop up definition window, or directly embeddable into any application, InfoSphere Business Glossary Anywhere allows users to view and author business definitions without loss of context or focus.
- Globalization support to simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese allows customers around the world to use InfoSphere Business Glossary and Business Glossary Anywhere in their native language.
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Features and benefits
Business Glossary, Business Glossary browser, and Business Glossary Anywhere support complex enterprise development environments with a unique set of capabilities:
Manage business terms and categories: Business Glossary provides a dedicated, web-based user interface for creating, managing, and sharing a controlled vocabulary, including batch editing capabilities. Terms represent the major information concepts in your enterprise and categories are used to organize into hierarchies.
Manage stewardship: Stewards are people or organizations with responsibility for a given information asset. Using Business Glossary administrators can import steward profiles from external sources, generate and edit profiles in the Web interface, and create relationships of responsibility between stewards and business terms or any of the artifacts managed by IBM InfoSphere Information Server.
Customize and extend: Needs around business metadata tend to differ from one enterprise to the next. For this reason, there is no "one size fits all" meta-model. In addition to being able to customize the entry page to the application, administrators can extend the application with custom attributes on both business categories and business terms.
Collaborate: It is not enough to simply document business metadata. This information is active in the enterprise with open access to all members of business and development teams. IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary provides a collaborative environment in which users can evolve this important information asset as the business changes and adapts to market conditions, shifting customer needs and competitive threats.
Contextual search and visibility business term definitions: Business Glossary Anywhere is an application independent search / pop-up box that can be called from any application (Excel, data modeling tools, reporting applications, Microsoft Word, etc.) that provides instant access to Business Glossary terms, taxonomies and stewards.
Simply Browse: Business Glossary browser is an intuitive read-only web-based interface requiring no training to utilize. Business users can search and explore the common controlled vocabulary and relationships, identify stewards responsible for assets and provide direct feedback.
IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary, Business Glossary browser and Business Glossary Anywhere provide these benefits:
Stronger data governance: Users can take ownership of business metadata by importing terms from external sources, authoring and editing terms in the Web interface, classifying terms into categories, and relating terms to more technical artifacts managed by the IBM InfoSphere Information Server.
Accountability and responsibility can be assigned, supporting enterprise data governance and Electronically Stored Information (ESI) requirements.
Improved productivity: Administrators can tailor the tool to the needs of their business users.
Increased collaboration: users are able to add annotations to business terms and categories as well so other team members downstream in project cycles have a greater understanding of the context of information.
Greater trust in information: business users now have immediate, in-context access to terms and definitions, facilitating a greater understand of and trust in the information they rely on to make critical business decisions.
System requirements
These are minimum requirements. Evaluate and adjust these requirements for your environment. This page includes system requirements for InfoSphere Business Glossary, Version 8.0, Version 8.1, and Version 8.5. The Version 8.1 system requirements also apply to Version 8.1.1 and Version 8.1.2.
IBM InfoSphere Information Server 8.7
| Operating System | Software | Hardware |
|---|---|---|
| AIX | AIX 6.1 AIX 7.1 Version 8.7 system requirements |
Version 8.7 system requirements |
| HP-UX | HP-UX 11i v2 on Intel Itanium HP-UX 11i v3 on Intel Itanium Version 8.7 system requirements |
Version 8.7 system requirements |
| Linux | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on AMD processors or Intel processors (Fix Pack 1 is required) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Advanced Platform on AMD processors or Intel processors (Fix Pack 1 is required) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on IBM System z (Fix Pack 1 is required) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Advanced Platform on IBM System z (Fix Pack 1 is required) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on AMD or Intel processors Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Advanced Platform on AMD or Intel processors Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform on IBM System z SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 on AMD processors or Intel processors SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 on AMD processors or Intel processors SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 on IBM System z SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 on IBM System z Version 8.7 system requirements |
Version 8.7 system requirements |
| Solaris | Solaris 10 Version 8.7 system requirements |
Version 8.7 system requirements |
| Windows | Client: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 Version 8.7 system requirements Server: Windows Server 2008 Version 8.7 system requirements |
Version 8.7 system requirements |
IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary 8.5
| Operating System | Software | Hardware |
|---|---|---|
| AIX | AIX 5.3 AIX 6.1 AIX 7.1 Version 8.5 system requirements |
Version 8.5 system requirements |
| HP-UX | HP-UX 11i v2 on Intel Itanium HP-UX 11i v3 on Intel Itanium Version 8.5 system requirements |
Version 8.5 system requirements |
| Linux | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on AMD processors or Intel processors (Fix Pack 1 is required) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Advanced Platform on AMD processors or Intel processors (Fix Pack 1 is required) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on IBM System z (Fix Pack 1 is required) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Advanced Platform on IBM System z (Fix Pack 1 is required) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on AMD or Intel processors Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform on AMD or Intel processors Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform on IBM System z SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 on AMD processors or Intel processors SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 on AMD processors or Intel processors SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 on IBM System z SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 on IBM System z Version 8.5 system requirements |
Version 8.5 system requirements |
| Solaris | Solaris 9 Solaris 10 Version 8.5 system requirements |
Version 8.5 system requirements |
| Windows | Client: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 Version 8.5 system requirements Server: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 Version 8.5 system requirements |
Version 8.5 system requirements Version 8.5 system requirements |
IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary 8.1
| Operating System | Software | Hardware |
|---|---|---|
| AIX | AIX 5.3 and 6.1 Version 8.1 system requirements |
Version 8.1 system requirements |
| HP-UX | HP-UX 11i v2 on Intel Itanium HP-UX 11i v3 on Intel Itanium HP-UX 11i v2 on PA-RISC HP-UX 11i v3 on PA-RISC Version 8.1 system requirements |
Version 8.1 system requirements |
| Linux | Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4 on AMD or Intel processors Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform on AMD or Intel processors Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform on IBM System z SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 on AMD or Intel processors SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 on IBM System z Version 8.1 system requirements |
Version 8.1 system requirements |
| Solaris | Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 Version 8.1 system requirements |
Version 8.1 system requirements |
| Windows | Client: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 Server: Windows Server 2003 Version 8.1 system requirements |
Version 8.1 system requirements |
IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary 8.0
| Operating System | Software | Hardware |
|---|---|---|
| AIX | AIX Version 5.2, 5.3 Version 8.0 system requirements |
Version 8.0 system requirements |
| HP-UX | HP-UX 11i v2 on Intel Itanium HP-UX 11i v2 on PA-RISC Version 8.0 system requirements |
Version 8.0 system requirements |
| Linux | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 on Intel x86 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for IBM zSeries Version 8.0 system requirements |
Version 8.0 system requirements |
| Solaris | Sun Solaris 9, and Solaris 10 Version 8.0 system requirements |
Version 8.0 system requirements |
| Windows | Client: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 Server: Windows Server 2003 Version 8.0 system requirements |
Version 8.0 system requirements |
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