Business data glossary: Whats in a name?

Most academics are familiar with numerous vocabularies.

The way that a physicist would describe photosynthesis, for example, would be very different to the explanation used by a chemist, or, in turn, by a botanist.

When scientists are working in isolation, these different uses of language cause few problems. But imagine the challenges faced by the multifunctional teams involved in large ventures like the Manhattan project, which had as its goal the creation of the atomic bomb.A host of skilled people, working in different ways and using different terminologies had to be kept on the same track in order to ensure that the deliverable was met.

Similarly, in business, different stakeholders use different vocabularies.

The goal of a business data glossary is to ensure that, like the scientists of the Manhattan project, everybody in your company is clear about how information is being used – whether in their environment or elsewhere.