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Overview of Business Directory
Business Directory is a business-friendly interface that provides a catalog of the published resources contained in one or more instances of TDV. The interface provides a seamless way to communicate and distribute information about data across groups within an organization to facilitate collaboration. Business Directory facilitates collaboration, and supports governance of data as it moves through its life cycle.
Core Capabilities
Supporting Features
Governance
Resource lineage can be displayed.
Metadata information can be added to the resources and their parent containers. That metadata is saved only within the Business Directory.
Collaboration
Business Directory works across all published resources in a TDV instance, and across any number of TDV instances in an enterprise.
Resources within the Business Directory can be commented on.
Resources and their parent containers can be followed, allowing for passive communication of resource updates.
Communication
Shared instances of TDV outside of team boundaries.
Browse and analyze database resources from disparate groups for potential usage.
Carry out simple searches and apply post-search filters.
Communicate with other stakeholders.
Provide feedback to developers.
Depending on your role and relationship to the data, the value of Business Directory may differ. You could find value simply from knowing what data is available within your larger organization so that you can optimize its usage for your purposes. Or you could provide the metadata information that links the raw data to the business decisions that are critical to the success of your organization.
Exactly how you and your teams implement and use Business Directory will be up to you. This document strives to cover all the potential tasks that you need to understand when creating the custom workflows for your organization.