Business glossaries are an important content item in data governance (or as we call it data intelligence). Therefore business glossaries are important to all organizations as it allows staff to...
March 17, 2021
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Jim Walery
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September 30, 2020
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Jim Walery
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In a recent webinar we covered tips for writing great business glossary definitions. Click here to access the recording. In this blog post we thought we would cover some principles and thoughts on...
June 17, 2020
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Brenda Reeb
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What are the best sources of definition content for your glossary? This post discusses several sources including: your most popular reports, pre-existing local glossaries, data dictionaries...
May 20, 2020
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Brenda Reeb
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An earlier blog post summarized a method that listed 6 components to consider when writing a good business glossary definition. Another earlier post discussed the first component which is...
April 15, 2020
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Brenda Reeb
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An earlier blog post summarized a method that listed 6 components to consider when writing a good business glossary definition. Now I want to discuss the first of the six components in more...
March 11, 2020
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Jim Walery
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Data governance (also called data intelligence), while beneficial, is a lot of work. And many are waiting for that large project to be done but there are many small tasks that can be done to get...
February 19, 2020
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Jim Walery
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Employees spend a great deal of time searching for information. One tool that organizations must have to save employee time is a business glossary which contains the business terms that employee...
April 03, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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Recently we discussed the differences between a business glossary and a data dictionary, and why you are likely to need both at your organization. In this post we want to delve more deeply into...
March 06, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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Having accessible knowledge is an important part of data governance (or also called data intelligence) and we thought in this post (and in upcoming posts) we would go back to the basics. Topic...