Business Data Network
In an organization where many different people work with information, it’s critical that everyone has a common understanding of business terms. A word can mean one thing to a financial analyst and something entirely different to a marketing manager in the same company – and while both are correct, the ambiguity can lead to ineffective data governance.
DataFlux Business Data Network enables you to use a browser-based interface to create and manage a common business data repository. You can access, share and exchange terms and attributes by viewing:
- Descriptions
- Source systems
- Owners
- Related terms and processes (data management services, data workflows and applications)
- Access permissions that allow only specific users to access and control data
Better data governance begins with established business terms
By linking terms to business rules and data monitoring processes created in the DataFlux Data Management Platform, DataFlux Business Data Network provides a vital first step in many data governance initiatives.
The technology includes reporting capabilities, business workflow management and user collaboration with notification capabilities to facilitate collaboration across the enterprise.
Other features:
- Organization of user-defined terms in a central repository
- Creation and management of terms via an intuitive web-based interface for rapid business deployment
- Association of terms with other Data Management Platform entities (such as jobs and rules) as well as applications, data sources and other elements
Benefits
Improve business and IT collaboration on data management projects
- Business users define and document terms
- Data architects leverage terms to enable data alignment
- Technical data managers implement jobs and rules to manage and master data
Rapidly take data governance program from concept to reality
- Graphically explore business terms and categories
- View relationships across data elements
- Use audit trails to know what data was changed and who changed it
Create a single source for business terminology across the enterprise
- Store and apply definitions to guide all data management processes
- Reuse, manage and report on the use of a single glossary
- Safeguard sensitive or protected information through read-only access to glossary content data