Creating a Business Glossary in HOPEX IT Portfolio Management
HOPEX IT Portfolio Management allows you to make an inventory of the concepts that define business terms and generate a business glossary from which you can view their definitions, synonyms and illustrations.
Consulting Term Definitions
A term is the designation of a concept in a given language.
Example: the "Country" concept has the "Pays" in French and "Country" in English.
HOPEX IT Portfolio Management offers a tool for easy consultation and creation of terms, from which you can generate a business glossary.
To display a term definition:
1. Click the navigation menu then Inventories > Data.
2. In the edit area, click the Business Terms tile.
3. Click the first arrow located to the right of the Term title to scroll the list of terms or enter the first letter of the term in question to display the list of corresponding terms.
4. Select the term in question from the list.
Its definition, if it exists, appears under the Definition section, with the associated object (concept, concept type, etc.).
See also: Concept and Term.
Creating Terms
To create a term:
1. Click the navigation menu then Inventories > Data.
2. In the edit area, click the Business Terms tile.
3. To the right of the Term field, click New.
4. In the dialog box that appears, specify:
• the term name
• the language of the term
• the holder
• The definition of the term
5. Click OK.
The new term appears in the edit area.
By default, a concept is automatically associated with it.
For more information on concepts, see Concept.The terms created can be classified in business dictionaries. The description of business dictionaries and all the construction elements of the business ontology enriches the glossaries.
See Business Dictionary.
Generating a Business Glossary
HOPEX Information Architecture provides a ready-to-use glossary report to automatically build the business glossary with terms derived from a set of Business dictionaries. For each term, the glossary displays a list of associated definitions with their text, synonyms and components list.
To launch an glossary report:
1. Click the navigation menu then Inventories > Data.
2. In the edit area, click the Glossary Report tile.
3. Select the source business dictionary(ies).
You can select more than one.4. Refresh the report to display its content.