SAS Business Data Network
is an application that enables you to manage business terms. It supports
a collaborative approach to managing the following information:
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descriptions of business terms,
including their requirements and attributes
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related source data and reference
data
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contacts (such as technical owners,
business owners, and interested parties)
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relationships between terms and
processes (such as SAS Data Management Studio jobs, services, and
business rules)
By linking terms to
business rules and data monitoring processes, SAS Business Data Network
provides a single entry point for all data consumers to better understand
their data. Data stewards, IT staff, and enterprise architects can
use the terms to promote a common vocabulary across projects and business
units. Permissions can be set to allow only specific users to access
or control the data in Business Data Network.
SAS Business Data Network
enables collaboration of domain knowledge between business users,
technical users, and data stewards. SAS Business Data Network can
be used as a single entry point for all data consumers to better understand
their data. It consists of a web user interface that documents business
terms and their associated rules, jobs, applications, data, documentation,
and other information. Technical users use the network to document
information about tables and columns that implement the business terminology.
This information can be used to relate jobs and other information
to terms and to share knowledge about data transformations. It serves
as a data dictionary to describe details of data models and other
data-related information. Data stewards can view data from a business
standpoint to better visualize problem areas by domain in order to
identify and fix data issues more effectively.