Out-of-the-box asset types

An asset type 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 such as Business Term, Business Process, and Line of Business, which help build the semantics of any organization with insufficient details to build an actual business application.

Business Asset 

AI Use Case

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

Business Asset  Business Dimension 

BI Folder

A collection of BI content.

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder

Looker Folder

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

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder

MicroStrategy Folder

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.

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder

Power BI Capacity

A resource that hosts Power BI workspaces.

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder

Power BI Folder

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

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder

Sigma Folder

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder

Sigma Workspace

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder Power BI Folder

SSRS Folder

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

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder

Power BI Workspace

A collection of Power BI dashboards, reports, and semantic models.

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder

SAC Folder

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder

Tableau Project

A collection of Tableau workbooks and data sources.

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder

Tableau Site

A collection of content (workbooks, data sources, users, and so on) that is isolated from any other content on that instance of Tableau Server.

Business Asset  Business Dimension  BI Folder

ThoughtSpot Org

Business Asset  Business Dimension 

Business Process

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 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.)

Business Asset  Business Dimension 

Line of Business

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 

Data Subject Category

A way in which a user can manually interact with data at rest to manipulate or consolidate it.

Business Asset  Business Dimension 

Jurisdiction

A hierarchical representation of how a business divides its market on the basis of geography, such as regions and countries. For example, North America is segmented into USA and Canada.

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.

A provider of goods or services.

Business Asset  Business Dimension 

Processing Category

A category of processing activities determined by the actions taken during the processing activity.

An asset type that is used to 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 

BI Report

A visual representation of data or a collection of visualizations.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Looker Dashboard

Collection of queries displayed as visualizations on a page.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Looker Look

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

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Looker Query

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

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Looker Tile

An element that represents data on the Looker Dashboard.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

MicroStrategy Document

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

MicroStrategy Dossier

A collection of MicroStrategy chapters and pages.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

MicroStrategy Report

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

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Power BI Dashboard

A collection of Power BI tiles with metrics from one or more reports and semantic models.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Power BI KPI

A key performance indicator of Power BI Report Server.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Power BI Report

A detailed view of a Power BI semantic model, with visualizations of findings and insights.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Sigma Workbook

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Sigma Workbook Element

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Sigma Workbook Page

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

ThoughtSpot Liveboard

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

ThoughtSpot Answer

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

ThoughtSpot Answer Visualization

Business Asset  Report  BI Report  Power BI Report

SSRS Report

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

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Power BI Tile

An element representing data on the Power BI dashboard.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

SAC Insight

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

SAC Story

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

SSRS KPI

A key performance indicator of SQL Server Reporting Services.

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Tableau View

A representation of your data in a Tableau worksheet or 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 Asset  Report  BI Report  Tableau View 

Tableau Worksheet

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

Business Asset  Report  BI Report 

Tableau Workbook

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

Business Asset  Report 

Data Notebook

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

Data Asset  Data Element  Data Attribute 

BI Data Attribute

An atomic unit of data that represents a BI report.

Data Asset  Data Element  Data Attribute  BI Data Attribute 

Looker Data Set Column

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

Data Asset  Data Element  Data Attribute  BI Data Attribute 

MicroStrategy Data Attribute

A column in a MicroStrategy data model.

Data Asset  Data Element  Data Attribute  BI Data Attribute 

Power BI Column

A column in a Power BI semantic model.

Data Asset  Data Element  Data Attribute  BI Data Attribute  Power BI Column

SSRS Column

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

Data Asset  Data Element  Data Attribute  BI Data Attribute 

SAC Data Attribute

SAC Data Attribute assets have the attribute Source Type, with one of the following values:

• Dimension
• Measure

Data Asset  Data Element  Data Attribute  BI Data Attribute 

Tableau Data Attribute

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

Examples: CustomerBirthDate, EmployeeFirstName.

Data Asset  Data Element  Data Attribute  BI Data Attribute 

Sigma Data Attribute

Data Asset  Data Element  Data Attribute  BI Data Attribute 

ThoughtSpot Data Attribute

Data Asset  Data Element  Data Attribute 

SAP Datasphere Data Attribute

Measures and dimensions used in a SAP Datasphere Model.

Data Asset  Data Element 

Field

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

Data Asset  Data Element  Report Attribute 

BI Report Attribute

An atomic unit of data that represents a BI report.

Data Asset  Data Element  Report Attribute  BI Report Attribute 

Looker Report Attribute

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.

Data Asset  Data Element  Report Attribute  BI Report Attribute 

Looker Report Attribute

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

Data Asset  Data Element  Report Attribute  BI Report Attribute 

MicroStrategy Visualization

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

Data Asset  Data Element  Report Attribute  BI Report Attribute 

Power BI Parameter

A column that is part of a Power BI Report Server Data Model and that is used in a KPI.

Data Asset  Data Element  Report Attribute  BI Report Attribute 

Sigma Report Attribute

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.

Data Asset  Data Element  Report Attribute  BI Report Attribute 

Tableau Report Attribute

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

BI Data Set

A collection of data that is used for BI report creation

Data Asset  Data Set BI Data Set

Looker Data Set

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

Data Asset  Data Set BI Data Set

Sigma Data Set

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

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Entity  BI Data Entity 

Power BI Table

A table in a Power BI semantic model.

Data Asset  Data Element  Data Attribute  BI Data Attribute Power BI Table

SSRS Table

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

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Entity  BI Data Entity 

SAC Data Entity

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

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Entity  BI Data Entity 

Sigma Data Entity

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.

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Entity  BI Data Entity 

Tableau Data Entity

A conceptual framework that defines how data is structured, organized, and related. It provides a standardized way to represent data elements, their data structures, and the relationships between them.

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

Data Asset  Data Structure  Model Data Model 

BI Data Model

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

Data Asset  Data Structure  Model Data Model  BI Data Model 

MicroStrategy Data Model

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

Data Asset  Data Structure  Model 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.

Data Asset  Data Structure  Model Data Model  BI Data Model 

Power BI Data Mart

A datamart in Power BI Service.

Data Asset  Data Structure  Model Data Model  BI Data Model 

Power BI Data Model

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

Data Asset  Data Structure  Model Data Model  BI Data Model 

Sigma Data Model

Data Asset  Data Set BI Data Set Power BI Data Model

SSRS Data Model

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

Data Asset  Data Structure  Model Data Model 

SAC Data Model

A representation of a large amount of data.

SAC Data Model assets have the attribute Source Type, with one of the following values:

• Planning
• Analytic

Data Asset  Data Structure  Model Data Model  BI Data Model 

Tableau Data Model

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

Data Asset  Data Structure  Model Data Model  BI Data Model 

ThoughtSpot Data Model

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Model  Transformation Model 

SAP Datasphere Analytic Model

A representation of a Datasphere model.

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Model  Transformation model 

SAP Datasphere Intelligent Lookup

An object that merges data from two entities.

Data Asset  Data Structure  Data Model  Transformation 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

Data Asset  Data Structure  Schema

Databricks Schema

A Schema asset defined in Databricks Unity Catalog that can contain assets like Tables, Volumes and Notebooks.

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 virtual table based on the result-set of an SQL statement.

An asset that clearly documents how the data can be used between data producers and consumers for specific purposes.

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

Data Asset 

Dataplex Lake

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

Data Asset 

Dataplex Zone

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

An asset type that is used to model the Primary key - Foreign key relations in relational databases.

Mapping between two or more data structures.

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.

Governance Asset 

Control

A measure taken to mitigate a risk. Any process, policy, device, practice, or other conditions and/or actions that maintain and/or modify risk.

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.

Governance Asset 

Legal Basis

The lawfulness of processing, as defined by Article 6 of GDPR. Personal data may be processed only if, and to the extent that, at least one legal basis applies.

Governance Asset 

Managed Control

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.

Governance Asset  Policy

Regulation

A directive made and maintained by an authority, for example, BCBS and Solvency.

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.

Governance Asset 

Purpose

An asset that describes the reason for which another asset is created or for which another asset exists.

Governance Asset 

Risk

An uncertain event that could create damage, injury, liability, loss or any other negative occurrence that is caused by external or internal vulnerabilities (Risk Sources), which can be avoided through controls.

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

Technology Asset 

AI Agent

A system or program that can autonomously perform tasks, such as make decisions based on predefined rules or learned patters, or take actions to achieve specific goals.

Technology Asset 

AI Agent

Azure AI Foundry Agent

Technology Asset 

AI Project

Technology Asset 

AI Project

Azure AI Foundry Project

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

Technology Asset 

Deployed AI Model

A statistical model that is trained on datasets in order to make predictions on new data.

Technology Asset 

Deployed AI Model

AWS Bedrock AI Model

Technology Asset 

Deployed AI Model

AWS SageMaker AI Model

Technology Asset 

Deployed AI Model

Azure AI Foundry Model

Technology Asset 

Deployed AI Model

Azure AI Model

Technology Asset 

Deployed AI Model

Databricks AI Model

Technology Asset 

Deployed AI Model

MLflow AI Model

Technology Asset 

Deployed AI Model

SAP AI Model

Technology Asset 

Deployed AI Model

Vertex AI Model

Technology Asset 

File

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

Examples: businessGlossary.xls, dataDictionary05220.csv, datacatalogv25.txt

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

Technology Asset 

Foundational AI Model

Important This asset type is currently only available for the Azure AI Foundry integration. It will become available for other AI model integrations in future versions of Collibra.

Technology Asset 

GCP Project

An asset type representing a Google Cloud Platform Project.

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

Technology Asset  Server 

BI Server

A visual analytic platform for creating and storing visualizations.

Technology Asset  Server  BI Server 

Looker Tenant

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.

Technology Asset  Server  BI Server 

Power BI Server

A visual analytics platform for creating and storing Power BI reports and semantic models.

Technology Asset  Server  BI Server 

Sigma Tenant

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.

Technology Asset  Server  BI Server 

Tableau Server

A visual analytics platform for creating interactive dashboards and rich visualizations

Technology Asset  Server  BI Server 

ThoughtSpot Tenant

Technology Asset  Server 

SAP Tenant

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

An asset type that represents a Storage Container

Technology Asset  Storage Container

ADLS Container

An asset type that represents an Azure Data Lake Container, which is a logical unit of storage containing Azure Data Lake Storage objects.

Technology Asset  Storage Container

ADLS Storage Account

An asset type that represents an Azure Data Lake Storage Account, which is a logical unit of storage containing Azure Data Lake Container objects.

Technology Asset  Storage Container

Databricks Volume

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.

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

Technology Asset  System 

BI Data Source

The link between a BI System and an external system.

Technology Asset  System  BI Data Source 

Sigma Data Source

Technology Asset  System  BI Data Source 

Tableau Data Source

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.

Technology Asset  System  BI Data Source 

ThoughtSpot Connection

An asset type that represents a Cloud File Storage bucket.

An asset type that represents Azure Data Lake Storage file system.

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