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The Automated Business Glossary: Part and Parcel of BI Intelligence

TDWI Speaker: Claudia Imhoff, Intelligent Solutions, Inc.

Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Time: 9:00 a.m. PT, 12:00 p.m. ET

Business Intelligence (BI) users have struggled for years to get a business-oriented understanding of analytical assets. Where did the data come from? How was the data manipulated in the creation of the analytics? Can this data be trusted? The reason for this frustration? A lack of a business glossary that can answer these questions and help ensure consistency throughout the organization.

Although it seems obvious that a glossary is desperately needed, its creation has proven to be difficult at best. The manual processes to ensure its creation and its maintenance have proven too arduous, filled with erroneous entries, or simply lacking in synchronicity with the current environment. The business glossary is also usually viewed as a standalone project, disconnected from the larger BI context.

The result? The ever-enduring project that never pays off.

Fortunately, there’s a much better way: An automated Business Intelligence Suite which includes discovery, lineage, and automated business glossary.

Learn about:

• What a business glossary is and why it is needed
• Why a business glossary must be part of the BI suite
• Three technological components that should be automated for a mature and trusted glossary
• How to get started creating an automated business glossary for your organization
• How organizations ensure company-wide consistency with an automated business glossary
• How the automated business glossary tames BI chaos

Claudia Imhoff, Ph.D.

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