Best Practices for Business Glossary Governance Maturity Often organizations are challenged in selecting the first implementation that the Data Governance (DG) program should address. A Business Glossary is a great first initiative as well as one that provides significant value to the enterprise.

A Business Glossary is used to communicate a common language and understanding across the enterprise to connect business management and knowledge workers to information they can trust, helping to eliminate misunderstandings that cause lost time, lost opportunities, and lost revenue. The Business Glossary should be an early deliverable from your DG program and mature to include the logical and physical data constructs as a valuable component to drive DG maturity and value.

This seminar will be helpful for data management and governance professionals that have been challenged with any of the following issues:

• How to organize the business glossary program for quick wins as well as position it for a maturing DG program
• Need to establish standards and best practices for the business glossary and cataloging IT Assets
• Legal and compliance regulations that are driving new projects yet the terminology/vocabulary are not clearly defined)
• Enterprise or international projects like CDI/MDM that must address terminology and semantic differences across the enterprise

From this seminar you will learn:

• Methods for establishing the Business Glossary, standards and best practices
• How to leverage your existing Governance organization and processes
• How to cost effectively leverage a Data Playbook approach to capture and manage the governance activities and content
• Methods for the organization and rationalization of Glossary content
• Technology alternatives for the Business Glossary and associated functionality