Business Glossary
Boost self-service analytics with an automated business glossary
Overview
Alation’s Business Glossary enables the creation of definitions, policies, rules, and KPIs through a rich, user-friendly interface. By leveraging machine learning, Alation’s Business Glossary automatically suggests business terms, identifies stewards and subject matter experts based on usage patterns, and incorporates crowdsourcing and collaboration to easily scale documentation.
Promote Data and Semantic Consistency with an Automated Business Glossary
ESTABLISH A COMMON UNDERSTANDING
SAVE TIME AND MONEY WITH AUTOMATION
IMPROVE SELF-SERVICE ANALYTICS
ESTABLISH TRUST IN ENTERPRISE DATA
Establish semantic consistency
Alation’s Business Glossary provides a single location for business semantics and corresponding data, lineage, and quality metrics, enabling cross-departmental access to business approved definitions. The rich user interface and collaborative features improves productivity and facilitates agile approval of business terms. Enterprises can import existing business glossaries directly into Alation.
Automatically map business terms
Alation’s data catalog automatically suggests new and popular business terms to incorporate into business glossaries. Machine learning auto titles technical metadata with logical business terms, accelerating the building and maintaining of business glossaries. Alation’s Analytics Stewardship application automatically identifies stewards and subject matter experts based on behavior insights, accelerating productivity.
Promote crowdsourcing and collaboration
Alation actively engages and incentivizes relevant stakeholders, like line-of-business stewards, subject matter experts, to define, document, and certify business assets. Crowdsourcing and collaboration via built-in capabilities such as conversations, inbox, trust flags and stewardship dashboards that track and measure curation progress, make knowledge capture and sharing intuitive.
