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Business Glossary tools for Tableau
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.
Dataedo
Dataedo helps organizations build a structured business glossary to define key business terms, ensuring a common understanding across departments. This reduces confusion, enhances communication, and supports regulatory compliance.
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Talend Data Catalog
Talend Data Catalog automatically crawls, profiles, organizes, links, and enriches all your metadata. The tool supports data privacy and regulatory compliance with intelligent data lineage tracing and compliance tracking. With a collaborative user experience, it enables anyone to contribute metadata or business glossary information.
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Ataccama Metadata Management & Data Catalog
Ataccama Data Catalog & Business Glossary tool manages business terms in your organization. Terms are automatically mapped to existing data sets ensuring the Data Catalog and Business Glossary are always synced and up-to-date. Custom hierarchy structure allows organized storing of items into an unlimited hierarchy structure.
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OvalEdge
OvalEdge is a data governance tool that allows to build a business glossary and define data quality rules. It enables to manage data access through policies, controls, and workflows.
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Data3Sixty Govern
Data3Sixty Govern provides data governance that delivers data quality, trust and value in a smart and intuitive solution. It automatically generate a business language for data while easily collaborating across business areas on common data definitions, rules and policies.
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Alation Data Catalog
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.
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Axon Data Governance
Axon Data Governance is the collaboration hub for successful data governance programs. It allows you to develop a common data dictionary to provide a consistent source of business context across multiple tools and ensure that teams can quickly find the data they need to uncover analytics insights with an integrated data catalog.
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Atlan
Atlan Business Glossary allows data producers and consumers in an organization to create a living tribal knowledge network across all of their data assets. Powered by a knowledge graph, Atlan allows users to define business terms, categories, policies, relationships and more. Atlan's machine learning based bot ecosystem automates several repetitive tasks associated with maintaining a business glossary such as auto tagging business glossary terms to data assets, propagating classification and glossary tagging rules via lineage, bulk associate glossary terms to data assets via an API and more. Its easy to use google like search interface makes it easy for business users to find the meaning of business terms within seconds while ensuring the compliance of business metadata across the enterprise.
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Select Star
Select Star has a metrics feature that allows you to define key terms and values based on data that aim to answer specific business questions. Select Star can automatically detect dimensions that you may want to group or pivot on, but you can remove these if desired or search for others.
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Collibra Catalog
Collibra is a data governance and management platform that offers a robust business glossary tool, enabling organizations to define and maintain consistent definitions for business terms, metrics, and data elements. It helps ensure clear communication and understanding across departments by providing a centralized repository for standardized terminology, which supports data consistency, compliance, and improved decision-making.
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Dawiso
Dawiso serves as a business glossary tool that helps organizations define and manage key business terms consistently across teams. It centralizes definitions, ensuring a shared understanding of terms and improving communication around data assets.
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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.