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Business Glossary tools for Amazon Redshift
List of tools that help build, maintain an share business glossaries.
Business Glossary is a collection of definitions and terms used within a business unitorganization. It is not used to define data, but rather to define what a particular term means from a business perspective. The definitions are mapped and logically linked to entities in the database. This enables structured communication between teams and allows them to reveal potential errors resulting from incorrect nomenclature.
DataGalaxy
DataGalaxy is a collaborative data governance platform that features a powerful business glossary tool designed to help organizations create and manage a centralized repository of business terms and definitions. This tool fosters alignment across teams by enabling users to document, share, and maintain a shared understanding of terminology, enhancing data literacy and promoting effective communication. With its intuitive interface and integration capabilities, DataGalaxy supports organizations in driving data quality, compliance, and informed decision-making.
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Ataccama ONE
Ataccama serves as a robust business glossary tool within its data governance platform, allowing organizations to define, organize, and manage business terms, their hierarchies, and relationships. It supports collaboration by linking business terms to data assets, ensuring consistent understanding across teams.
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There are many tools for creating business glossaries. Whether sophisticated or not, they allow to create:
• access and alternate names,
• descriptions,
• explanations of how to calculate metrics,
• links to other elements.
To ensure access to all terms from different platforms, many business glossary tools are cross-platform compatible. More advanced tools provide a workflow to ensure that term definitions are updated and approved. In addition to the glossary creation features, the tools allow you to export to user-friendly and easy-to-share formats like PDF and HTML.
Proper communication between teams in an organization is crucial for the success of the project. Similarly, it is important to interpret data correctly. Each of the teams working together (business team, developers, marketing teams), use different nomenclature and terms. Within a team the logical meaning of data elements, acronyms, etc. are defined and understood only by a narrow group of members. This makes the area of inconsistency really wide. Even small misunderstandings can lead to fatal consequences. This is where the business glossary comes into play.
What's more, using glossaries not only makes the communication more reliable, but also improves efficiency and speeds up the decision-making process (e.g. wondering if "customer" means a single person, an organization, and repeating the consideration next time the project is approached).
In our list, we have included noteworthy business tools for creating and reviewing business glossaries.