Packaged metamodel for the Business Glossary

The Business Glossary has specific asset types and domain types.

Asset types

The table below contains the packaged asset types that are relevant for the Business Glossary.

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Asset type	Asset type	Description	Required global permission	Domain type
Business Asset	Business Asset	A type of asset that is exclusively used and governed by the business user community. Its instance assets, and all instances instantiating its subtypes, pertain to the business organization. Business assets typically include business concepts like Business Term, Business Process, Line of Business, etc. that help to build the semantics of any organization with insufficient details to build an actual business application.	Business Semantics Glossary	Business Asset Domain
Business Context	Business Asset Business Context	A type of asset that binds certain assets by a specific business context. They can be used as filters in Business Context Diagrams.	Business Semantics Glossary	Business Asset Domain
Business Qualifier	Business Asset Business Qualifier	Business Qualifiers qualify certain assets. This can be used as filters in Business Qualifier Diagrams.	Business Semantics Glossary	Business Asset Domain
Business Term	Business Asset Business Term	A word or phrase that describes a concept that is used in a particular branch of business. Examples: customer, person purchase count, loan amount	Business Semantics Glossary	Glossary
Acronym	Business Asset Business Term Acronym	An abbreviation of a business term that forms a word or a name. It is formed by stringing the initial components of a business term together. It is often pronounced as a word. Examples: ERP, EDW, EAD	Business Semantics Glossary	Glossary
Measure	Business Asset Measure	An asset type that is used for calculations, such as sum, count, average, minimum or maximum. Examples: net sales, top customers, on-hand inventory	Business Semantics Glossary	Report Catalog
KPI	Business Asset Measure KPI	Key Performance Indicator, an indicator to periodically measure the success of or the progress towards a strategic goal of a particular activity or of an organization. Examples: employee turnover, customer attrition, claims denial rate	Business Semantics Glossary	Report Catalog
Report	Business Asset Report	A document containing information that is organized in a narrative, graphic, or tabular form. The document is prepared on an ad hoc, periodic, recurring, regular or as-required basis. Reports can refer to specific periods, events, occurrences or subjects.	Business Semantics Glossary	Report Catalog
BI Report	Business Asset Report BI Report	A visual representation of data or a collection of visualizations.	Business Semantics Glossary	Report Catalog
Looker Dashboard	Business Asset Report BI Report Looker Dashboard	A collection of Looker tiles with metrics from one or more Looker Looks.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
Looker Look	Business Asset Report BI Report Looker Look	A detailed view of a Looker Data Set, with visualizations of findings and insights.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
Looker Query	Business Asset Report BI Report Looker Query	A query that creates a simple report in a Looker Tile or Looker Look.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
Looker Tile	Business Asset Report BI Report Looker Tile	An element that represents data on the Looker Dashboard.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
MicroStrategy Dossier	Business Asset Report BI Report MicroStrategy Dossier	A collection of MicroStrategy chapters and pages.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
MicroStrategy Report	Business Asset Report BI Report MicroStrategy Report	A detailed view of a MicroStrategy data model, with visualizations of findings and insights.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
Power BI Dashboard	Business Asset Report BI Report Power BI Dashboard	A collection of Power BI tiles with metrics from one or more Reports and Data Models.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
Power BI KPI	Business Asset Report BI Report Power BI KPI	A key performance indicator of Power BI Report Server.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Data Catalog
Power BI Report	Business Asset Report BI Report Power BI Report	A detailed view of a Power BI Data Model, with visualizations of findings and insights.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
Power BI Tile	Business Asset Report BI Report Power BI Tile	An element representing data on the Power BI Dashboard.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
SSRS KPI	Business Asset Report BI Report SSRS KPI	A key performance indicator of SQL Server Reporting Services.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
SSRS Report	Business Asset Report BI Report SSRS Report	A detailed view of an SQL Server Reporting Services Data Set, with visualizations of findings and insights.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
Tableau View	Business Asset Report BI Report Tableau View	A representation of your data in a Tableau worksheet or dashboard.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
Tableau Dashboard	Business Asset Report BI Report Tableau View Tableau Dashboard	A collection of several worksheets and supporting information, shown on a single screen, so that you can simultaneously compare and monitor a variety of data.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
Tableau Story	Business Asset Report BI Report Tableau View Tableau Story	Sequence of visualisations that work together to convey information.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
Tableau Worksheet	Business Asset Report BI Report Tableau View Tableau Worksheet	A worksheet is a single sheet on which you can build views of your data.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog
Tableau Workbook	Business Asset Report BI Report Tableau Workbook	Collection of sheets. A sheet can be a worksheet, a dashboard or a story.	Business Semantics Glossary	BI Catalog

Domain types

The table below contains the packaged domain types that are relevant for the Business Glossary.

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Type	Type	Description	Asset types
BI Catalog	BI Catalog	A collection of Tableau assets with the list of related attributes.	Tableau Project Tableau Site Tableau View Tableau Dashboard Tableau Story Tableau Worksheet Tableau Workbook Tableau Data Attribute Tableau Report Attribute Tableau Data Entity Tableau Data Model Tableau Server Tableau Data Source
Business Asset Domain	Business Asset Domain		Business Asset Business Dimension BI Folder
Report Catalog	Business Asset Domain Report Catalog	A collection of reports and their definitions with the list of related report characteristics.	Measure KPI Report BI Report Report Attribute BI Report Attribute
Glossary	Glossary	A prioritized list of business terms and acronyms, and their meanings.	Business Term Acronym
Assessment Review Register	Data Governance Domain Assessment Review Register	Domain type for Assessment Review assets, which are created when an assessment is conducted on an asset and submitted for review.	Assessment Review

Workflows

The table below contains the packaged workflows that are relevant for the Business Glossary.

Name	Description	Visual representation
Approval Process	The Approval Process workflow allows you to approve an asset in Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud. This is a more powerful version of the Simple Approval Process.
Assessments	This process notifies the Business Steward (by default) that an Assessment Review asset is ready for review and prompts the Business Steward to approve or reject the asset.
Cancel Process	This process notifies the concerned users of a workflow cancellation.
Escalation Process	This process is the default mechanism for the escalation of user tasks in workflows.
Propose New Business Asset	This process facilitates the creation of new Business Assets in the Data Governance Council community.
Propose New Business Term	This process facilitates the creation of new Business Term assets in the Data Governance Council community.
Simple Approval	The Simple Approval workflow is a single-step process that allows you to approve an asset in Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud.
Voting Sub-Process	The Voting Sub-Process is a workflow that can be called by other workflows when users need to vote. It is used within other packaged workflows such as the Approval Process, the Simple Approval or the Issue Management workflow. You can use this sub-process in new custom workflows. The result is a true or false boolean that is provided to the parent workflow.