DATA GOVERNANCE

Business Glossary

Our data product marketplace solution builds trust in your data through an integrated business glossary. This ensures data descriptions reflect your organization’s specific business language and terminology, helping drive usage and consistency while optimizing self-service data consumption.

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Create a common, consistent language for data across your organization

Reduce errors and misunderstandings that hamper effective data usage and lead to issues through a single source of truth and shared knowledge base for business terms specific to your organization. Align definitions across teams and departments to eliminate discrepancies and increase collaboration between technical and business users. Provide a common language to harmonize your reporting and optimize data usage across the organization.

Contextualize your data to strengthen self-service consumption

Provide your users with the essential context required to quickly understand your data and assess its relevance to their needs, increasing self-service data consumption and reducing queries to data teams. Accelerate the creation of a data culture by providing users with everything they need to build trust in your data. Optimize the onboarding of new employees by allowing them to confidently consume data as soon as they arrive, saving time and delivering faster impact.

Deliver an exceptional experience by providing definitions at the right time

Opendatasoft’s business glossary is shared through a globally accessible central page as well as being integrated directly into the user journey. Simply hovering over a term in a data asset description provides a clear definition without interrupting user navigation. This seamless integration enriches the data consumption experience, providing quick and contextual access to all required definitions and terms.

Ensure clear business glossary governance

The ability to define and approve terms in the Opendatasoft business glossary is governed through specific permissions, ensuring there is a reliable, controlled single source of truth when it comes to your organization’s data vocabulary. You can strengthen business team engagement by directly involving them in creating and managing definitions, promoting stronger collaboration between data and business teams, and enabling them to work together to provide context to data assets.

The benefits of Opendatasoft’s business glossary

Optimized user experience: As the glossary is directly accessible on the data marketplace, through both a centralized page listing all definitions and on each data description page, users benefit from seamless context when exploring data.

Simplified editing experience: In just a few steps, glossary managers can easily add the necessary definitions and synonyms. These terms then automatically appear when hovering over the corresponding metadata, as well as on the dedicated glossary page.

Why implement a business glossary in your data marketplace?

Create a shared language: By precisely defining terms such as “customer,” “revenue,” or “turnover,” the glossary reduces conflicting interpretations. Every department shares a unified understanding, making collaboration easier.
Reduce errors: Standardized definitions minimize gaps in understanding that lead to confusion, especially around terms that vary between departments.

Ensure compliance: Standards and legal obligations often mandate precise definitions, especially for key financial terms such as “turnover.” The glossary supports compliance by aligning terms across your data marketplace and financial reporting.
Strengthen data governance: The business glossary supports successful data governance by clarifying business definitions. Teams can easily trace usage, simplifying management of information quality and integrity.