Describing Concepts
The concept is the basic element of a business dictionary.
A concept expresses the essential nature of a being, an object, or a word through its properties and characteristics or its specific qualities.
A concept is associated with one or more terms that designate the concept in a given language. See Creating and Consulting Business Terms.
Accessing the Concepts List
To access all concepts of your repository:
1. Click the navigation menu then Business Glossary > Business Information Assets.
2. In the edit area, click Concepts > All Concepts.
The list of concepts appears.
For more details on use of the repository concepts list, see Defining a Business Information Area.Creating Concepts
To create a concept:
1. Display all concepts.
2. Click New.
3. Enter the Name of the concept and the Owner Business Dictionary.
4. The Existing Terms section lists terms with the same name as the new concept. You can choose to use an already existing term, or create a new term.
A term is a word or word group, that is used for a specific meaning in a specific context.If a term has already been created with the same name as the new concept, this term is automatically connected and appears automatically in the Term section.5. In the Definition Text field, enter the text of the concept definition.
6. Click Next to associate an image with the concept or OK to finish.
The name of the new concept appears in the tree. It also appears in the tree structure of the holding business dictionary. A new term with the same name as the concept is also created.
Concepts and Terms
Connecting an existing concept to a term
The same term can be connected to several objects. You can connect a term when creating a concept or at a later date.
To connect a concept to a term:
1. Click the navigation menu then Business Glossary > Business Information Assets.
2. In the edit area, click Terms.
The list of terms is displayed.
3. Select the term concerned and click the Properties 
button in the edit area.
button in the edit area.4. Select the Characteristics page.
The list of objects connected to the term appears in the Identified Dictionary Type table.
Objects for which the term is declared as a synonym do not appear in the properties dialog box. 5. Click the Connect button.
The query dialog box appears.
6. Select the “Concept” object type and click the Find button.
The list of the existing concepts appears.
7. Select the desired concept and click Connect.
Creating terms in multiple languages from a concept
You can associate terms with a concept for each of the data languages in your environment.
To create a term from a concept:
1. Open the properties of the concept that interests you and select the Characteristics tab.
2. Select the Definition tab, then New.
A term creation dialog box opens.
3. Specify the Local Name of the term.
4. Select the Language and click OK.
The new term appears in the concept properties.
Creating synonyms in multiple languages
A synonym is a term interchangeable with another term in the context of a concept of this term that has the same or almost the same meaning.It is possible to add synonyms to a concept in several languages. This function serves to indicate to the user that a concept defined and used in a certain context corresponds to other synonyms in another language.
Concept Properties
To access concept properties:
Select the concept concerned and click the Properties button in the edit area.Concept characteristics
The Characteristics sub-page of the concept properties window provides access to the main characteristics of the concept.
A concept is described by:
• the Abstract Concept check box, which enables specification of the concrete or abstract character of a concept
• its Definition, which is represented by one or several terms
To modify the name of a concept in the corresponding language, you must access concept properties and modify the name of the term in the specific language. For more details, see also Concept and Term.• Its synonyms, Hypernyms and Hyponyms
For example, in the Financial area, the term "Advance" is recognized as a synonym of "Down payment".
A synonym is a term interchangeable with another term in the context of a concept of this term that has the same or almost the same meaning.• Its Definition Text
The Super-Type sub-page enables access to all concept types that classify the current concept.
For more details, see Describing Concept Types.The Realization sub-page enables association of an application architecture element to the concept.
For more details, see "Connecting the Business Concepts to the Logical and Physical architecture".Links between a concept and other dictionary elements
In addition to terminology characteristics, a concept is characterized by its relationships with other dictionary elements.
• The Variation tab presents concepts whose properties are inherited by the described concept, for more details see Describing Concept Inheritances
• The Components tab presents:
• the list of concept components owned, for more details see Describing Concept Components.
• the list of concept power components, for more details see Describing Concept Power Components.
State concepts connected to a concept are not present in the properties dialog box, for more details see Describing Concept or Individual States.