Business Summary Lineage

The Business Summary Lineage is a representation of relations of the type "Data Element sources / targets Data Element" in a business diagram. It is not a separate diagram view, but refers to any diagram that contains that relation type. It allows you to trace data flows between registered databases and, as such, provides a summary of a technical lineage.

Note   Click here for an overview of the differences between Technical lineage and a diagram with Business Summary Lineage.

You can create a new diagram view including the Business Summary Lineage or you can select one of the existing diagram views that shows the relation "Data Element sources / targets Data Element" between Column assets of registered data sources and between BI assets and assets of registered data sources.

Before you can view a diagram with Business Summary Lineage, you have to:

• Register the data sources that you want to see in a diagram with Business Summary Lineage.
• Prepare a configuration file to create a technical lineage.
• Use the lineage harvester to upload the data sources in your configuration file to the Collibra Data Lineage server where they are scanned and processed.

Once the data sources are scanned, the Collibra Data Lineage server automatically pushes relations of the type "Data Element sources / targets Data Element" to Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud.

Example of a diagram with Business Summary Lineage

In this business diagram, you see that the Column assets of the Table asset CustomerProductSales have a relation of the type "Data Element sources / targets Data Element" to Column assets of other Table assets.