Overview of packaged asset types

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.

AI Model is a statistical model that is trained on datasets in order to make predictions on new data.

Business Asset  AI Model

AWS Bedrock AI Model

Business Asset  AI Model

AWS SageMaker AI Model

Business Asset  AI Model

Azure AI model

Business Asset  AI Model

Databricks AI Model

Business Asset  AI Model

Vertex AI Model

An AI Use Case is a specific application of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI Models trained on specific data in order to solve a business problem and deliver business value. Implementing AI Use Case may result in automating a task, improve decision-making or develop new products and services.

A set of reference information that categorizes and describes a Business Term in such a way that it provides context and meaningful answers to business questions. Examples: Business Process, Line of Business, Region, Business Capability

A collection of BI content

A container that stores Looker Looks, Dashboards and other folders.

A collection of MicroStrategy reports and data models.

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder

MicroStrategy Project

A collection of MicroStrategy visualizations, report attributes and tables.

A resource that hosts Power BI Workspaces.

A collection of Power BI Report Server Dashboards, Reports and Data Models.

A collection of Power BI Dashboards, Reports and Data Models.

A collection of SQL Server Reporting Services Dashboards, Reports and Data Models.

Collection of Tableau workbooks and data sources.

Collection of content (workbooks, data sources, users, …) that's walled off from any other content on that instance of Tableau Server.

A set of activities and tasks that, once completed, produces value to the business.

Examples: campaign management, talent recruitment

A container for all the business definitions that encompass associated terminology and definitions that an organization is trying to govern.

Examples: master data, reference data, transactional data

A data concept is a high level theoretical representation of the most common data properties of a data domain. A data concept is the business counterpart of a data attribute in a logical data dictionary, just as a data attribute is the logical counterpart of a field or column in the physical data dictionary. (Example: an address is a data concept of the data domain customer or organization).

Also known as Data Category or Subject area, this is a container of all the business data domains and data concepts that encompass associated terminology and definitions that an organization is trying to govern. Examples: Master Data (Customer, Product), Reference Data. Business Data Domains group Data Concepts (Year, Date, Address, Name, etc.)

A logical element or segment of an organization that serves a particular business need. Line of business is also known as business unit or business area.

Examples: retail, e-commerce, investment management

Business Asset  Business Dimension 

Party

An association, corporation, partnership, proprietorship, trust, or individual that has legal standing. A Party has legal capacity to enter into agreements or contracts, assume obligations, incur and pay debts, sue and be sued in its own right, and to be held responsible for its actions.

Business Asset  Business Dimension  Party

Vendor

A provider of goods or services.

Business Qualifiers qualify certain assets. This can be used as filters in Business Qualifier Diagrams.

A word or phrase that describes a concept that is used in a particular branch of business.

Examples: customer, person purchase count, loan amount

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

An asset type that is used for calculations, such as sum, count, average, minimum or maximum.

Examples: net sales, top customers, on-hand inventory

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

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 Asset  Report 

Data Notebook

A visual representation of data or a collection of visualizations.

Collection of queries displayed as visualizations on a page.

Saved report that can be retrieved by name and shared with other people in the organization.

A query that creates a simple report in a Looker Tile or Looker Look.

An element that represents data on the Looker Dashboard.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

MicroStrategy Dossier

A collection of MicroStrategy chapters and pages.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

MicroStrategy Document

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

MicroStrategy Report

A detailed view of a MicroStrategy data model, with visualizations of findings and insights.

A collection of Power BI tiles with metrics from one or more Reports and Data Models.

A detailed view of a Power BI Data Model, with visualizations of findings and insights.

An element representing data on the Power BI Dashboard.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

SSRS KPI

A key performance indicator of SQL Server Reporting Services.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

SSRS Report

A detailed view of an SQL Server Reporting Services Data Set, with visualizations of findings and insights.

A representation of your data in a Tableau worksheet or 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.

A worksheet is a single sheet on which you can build views of your data.

Collection of sheets. A sheet can be a worksheet, a dashboard or a story.

An enumerated list of valid code values for a specific topic, where the code set is the whole and the code values are parts of that whole. It is a data asset that defines the set of permissible values to be used by other data assets.

Examples: Product Code Set, Person Gender Code, ISO 3166 Country Code

A valid form of representation for an asset, shortened or covert.

Examples:

• In the Person Gender Code, “male”, “female”, “not known” and "not specified" are represented by the valid code values "1", "2", "0" and "9".
• “US” is part of the "ISO 3166 code set" and refers to The United States of America.

Mapping between two or more code sets.

A construct that documents aspects of something abstract, especially one that is essential for business.

Examples: person birth date, person address

An atomic unit of data that can be stored in a database table.

Examples: FST_NM, EMPID

A specification that defines a property of a data entity.

Examples: CustomerBirthDate, EmployeeFirstName

An atomic unit of data that represents a BI report.

An atomic unit of data that is used in a Looker Look or Looker Tile. It represents a column in a Looker Data Set.

A column in a MicroStrategy data model.

A column in a Power BI Data Model.

A column in an SQL Server Reporting Services Report Data Set.

A specification that defines a property of a Tableau data entity.

Examples: CustomerBirthDate, EmployeeFirstName.

An atomic unit of data that can be stored in a file.

Examples: FirstName, EmpID

An atomic unit of data that represents a report.

Examples: ExpenseAmount, RiskAmount

An atomic unit of data that represents a BI report.

An atomic unit of data that is used in a Looker Look or Looker Tile. It represents the actual use a Looker Data Set Column.

A detailed view of a MicroStrategy visualization, with findings and insights.

Data Asset  Data Element  Report Attribute  BI Report Attribute 

SSRS Parameter

A column that is part of an SQL Server Reporting Services Data Set and that is used in a KPI.

An atomic unit of data that represents a Tableau report.

Examples: ExpenseAmount, RiskAmount

A collection of related sets of data assets that are data elements or composed of data elements.

Example: Customer Contact information

A collection of data that is used for BI report creation

A collection of data that is used to define Looker Dimensions and Measures.

A collection of data that is used to create an SQL Server Reporting Services Report.

A logical grouping of data elements, where the data structure is the whole and the data elements are parts of that whole.

Example: cfPerson is a Data Structure that contains the data elements cfBirthDate, cfPersonFullName

A unit of data that can be classified and can have a stated relationship to other units of data.

Examples: Customer, Employee

A unit of data in a BI data source that can be classified and can have a stated relationship to other units of data.

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Entity  BI Data Entity 

MicroStrategy Data Entity

A table in a Power BI Data Model.

A table in an SQL Server Reporting Services Report Data Set.

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Entity  BI Data Entity 

Tableau Data Entity

An abstraction from the physical implementation of database tables, used for Tableau report creation.

A diagram that organizes data elements and standardizes how the data elements relate to one another. The Data Model is often used as a communication aid between business and technology.

Examples: Customer Subject area model, Event Subject area model

An abstraction of data structures such as databases, schemas and files, used to create BI reports.

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Model  BI Data Model 

MicroStrategy Data Model

A collection of data that is used to create MicroStrategy reports.

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Model  BI Data Model 

Power BI Data Flow

A collection of tables that are created and managed in workspaces in the Power BI service.

A datamart in Power BI Service.

A collection of data that is used to create a Power BI report.

An abstraction from the physical implementation of database, schema, file, etc., used for Tableau report creation.

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Model 

SAP Datasphere Analytic Model

A representation of a Datasphere model.

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Model 

SAP Datasphere Intelligent Lookup

An object that merges data from two entities.

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Model 

SAP Datasphere Perspective

A reusable configuration that contains a subset of consumption model attributes, measures and parameters.

An organized structure described in a formal language supported by implementing technology that defines the objects in the technology assets (Table and columns in a relational database, fields in a file).

Examples: CRM_001_PRD, HDP_CNT_CLD

An implementation of data entities in columns and rows, in a given database system. It is the basic structure of a relational database.

Examples: Account_tbl, CUST_ADDR

A Database View is a virtual table based on the result-set of an SQL statement.

An asset that clearly documents how the data can be used between data produces and consumers for specific purpose

Example: Sales growth information that is available to share for read-only requirements

Asset type used to model the Primary key - Foreign key relations in relational databases.

Mapping between two or more data structures.

Data Asset 

Dataplex Lake

A lake is a centralized repository for managing enterprise data across the organization.

This asset type has been added in preparation of the Dataplex integration. The metamodel can change based on feedback from the upcoming Dataplex integration Beta testing.

Data Asset 

Dataplex Zone

A zone represents a logical group of related assets within a Dataplex lake.

This asset type has been added in preparation of the Dataplex integration. The metamodel can change based on feedback from the upcoming Dataplex integration Beta testing.

A type of asset that is used to monitor and advocates to maximize performance or utilization of other Business and Data assets while minimizing the risk factors in alignment with Organisational/Business goals.

Governance Asset 

Assessment Review

An asset of this type is created when an assessment is conducted on an asset and submitted for review.

Represents criteria that are relevant for assessing quality and categorizes different aspects of how data quality is measured.

Examples: accuracy, completeness, consistency

An agreement between data producers and consumers with terms and conditions including provisions concerning access and dissemination to 'pool' a set of data for specific purposes.

Examples: Sales growth information that is available only to the Risk team for generating internal reports.

Allows you to categorize Issue type assets to help with organization and reporting.

Example: You want to differentiate between types of issues, such as a Duplication issue or a Completeness issue.

A statement of intent that is set by a council and is implemented by a set of standards.

Example: Personal information must be adequately protected.

Consists of specific low-level mandatory controls that help enforce and support the policy.

Example: All personal information is encrypted with a specific encryption type.

Defines or constrains some aspect of specific business data categories. It is intended to control or influence the behavior of the business.

Example: Every customer must have a unique identifier.

Defines or constrains some aspect of specific business data. It is intended to control or influence the behavior of business data.

Example: Customer numbers have to be unique.

An implementation of data quality rules in a selected physical database system using a particular data quality tool.

Example: CRM.ACT.Tx_ID cannot be null, must be a 9-digit number and has to take the 999-99-9999 format in the CRM system, and ERP.Cust.SSN has to take the 999999999 format in the ERP system.

A specification that defines which actions are required to measure the quality level of a data element for its intended use.

Example: SSN must be a unique 9-digit identification number for 100% of US personal accounts for tax processing.

A rule that describes a criterion to which content in DGC has to comply.

The parent asset type of all issues.

A problem related to issue management, also referred to as "issue".

A piece of information technology (hardware, software, database, software platform) that helps an organization to run a business application.

Examples: Database, File

A collection of data that is systematically organized or structured, to make it is easy to create, update and query the information.

Examples: Ora_DGC_V45, SalesDB2020

An asset type that represents a Storage Container

A collection of data that is treated by a computer as a unit, for the purposes of input and output.

An asset type that represents an Google Cloud Storage bucket which is a logical unit of storage containing Google Cloud Storage objects.

An asset type that represents an Amazon S3 Bucket, which is a logical unit of storage containing Amazon S3 Objects.

Technology Asset  Storage Container

SAP Container

A collection of SAP DataSphere data.

Technology Asset  Storage Container

SAP Datasphere Space

A collection of SAP Datasphere models, tables and views.

A collection of physical files which together represent a single logical file.

A computer program or device that supports other computer programs and their users

A visual analytic platform for creating and storing visualizations.

A platform to create Looker Dashboards and rich visualizations.

Technology Asset  Server  BI Server 

MicroStrategy Server

A visual analytics platform for creating and storing MicroStrategy reports and data models.

A visual analytics platform for creating and storing Power BI Reports and Data Models.

Technology Asset  Server  BI Server 

SSRS Server

A visual analytics platform for creating and storing SQL Server Reporting Services and Power BI Report Server Reports and Data Sets.

A visual analytics platform for creating interactive dashboards and rich visualizations

Technology Asset  Server 

SAP Tenant

The tenant of your SAP System connected to SAP Datasphere Catalog.

Executable software that you can buy commercially off the shelf (COTS), or build internally, to automate one or more business functions that help run a business smoothly and efficiently.

Examples: CRM, ERP, EDW

The link between a BI System and an external system.

The link between Tableau and an external system. A Tableau data source contains the information to connect to external data, table names, the table relationships, and any customizations that you make.

An asset type that represents a Cloud File Storage bucket.

An asset type that represents a Google Cloud Storage file system.

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) file system abstraction.