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Business Glossary: An Essential Component of a Data Catalog

“A good data catalog tool must offer a solution that administers business concepts, allows them to be linked to the technical assets that implement these concepts, and thus opens up the use of the catalog enterprise-wide.”

Setting up your data catalog involves first and foremost connecting it to the data sources and physical systems in which your assets are stored in order for users to begin inventorying them. You’ll need this inventory to get a first level of information: Storage system, location, access modes, formats, types, and more.

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Overview

With the help of automation, a certain amount of information is collected and this often provides detailed technical documentation of what is in the information system. Standard data catalog solutions then enable knowledgeable data users to complete this documentation, by adding classification attributes to describe in more detail the company’s technical ecosystem.

Whilst this information is useful for more technically orientated users (engineers, architects, etc.), it often remains unclear to the growing number of enterprise data consumers. This will prevent these from exploiting and governing the data effectively. In order to provide the necessary context for the use of this data, users need different types of information: organizational, statistical, compliance, and more.

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