Vocabulary

The vocabulary describes the business terms and the business requirements that are supported by underlying IT assets, such as data models. This provides consistent terminology, and serves as an entry point for the user to understand and customize the information that is supported by related IT assets. The vocabulary is delivered and customized in Information Governance Catalog (IGC).

The IPS vocabulary is represented by a first-level category in Information Governance Catalog (IGC). The components within the vocabulary are represented by second-level categories.

Ownership

The vocabulary components are typically owned by the business users.

Business terms
Defining industry concepts in plain business language, business terms have properties and can be related to each other. Business terms are organized by business categories and by term type hierarchies. Clearly defined business terms help standardization and communication within a company. Mapping to the data models enables users to create a common, enterprise-wide picture of the data requirements, and to transform these requirements into IT data structures.
Analytical requirements
Analytical requirements comprise high-level business information that is used by the enterprise to express business measures along axes of analysis, which are named dimensions. Analytical requirements allow business users to fully articulate the requirements for analysis by using their own business terminology, and are the basis for building the enterprise data models that are used to develop the IT assets that deliver the analytical requirements to business users.
Supportive content
Supportive content includes terms that incorporate terminology that originates from an internal or external source, and supports data structures. The types of data structures typically supported include regulatory reports, industry standards, business architecture standards, vendor interfaces and legacy source systems.
Scopes
A scope denotes the subset of the Insurance models that supports project business requirements. Scopes are expressed in Information Governance Catalog (IGC) as a category that includes a number of term references. These term references express the list of business terms, analytical requirements, measures, dimensions and supportive content terms that make up the scope.

Parent topic: User guide