Concept
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 Searching for Terms in the Business Glossary.
Accessing the List of Concepts
To access concepts in HOPEX Data Governance:
1. Click the navigation menu then Glossary > Business Data.
2. In the edit area, click Concepts.
Under Architecture > Hierarchy View, you can also display concepts from the relevant business dictionary.To access concepts in HOPEX Data Architecture:
1. Click the navigation menu then Glossary > Business Data.
2. Unfold the relevant business dictionary folder to view its concepts.
Creating Concepts
To create a concept:
1. Click the New button associated with the concept list or the concept folder.
2. Enter the Name of the concept and the Owner Business Dictionary.
3. 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.4. In the Description field, enter the text of the concept definition.
5. 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 term to a concept:
1. Open the properties of the concept.
2. In the properties, select the Characteristics page.
3. Expand the Identification section.
4. Click Designated Term then Connect.
5. Select the desired term.
You can also connect a concept to a term in the term properties:
1. Open the properties of the term.
2. Click the Characteristics page.
The list of objects connected to the term appears in the Identified Dictionary Type field.
Objects for which the term is declared as a synonym do not appear in the properties dialog box. 3. Click the Connect button.
The query dialog box appears.
4. Select the “Concept” object type and click the Find button.
The list of the existing concepts appears.
5. 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 > Characteristics page.
2. Expand the Identification section and click 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.
Renaming a Concept
The name of a concept is derived from the associated term. To rename a concept, you need to modify the associated term. The concept name cannot be modified directly.
There are two ways of modifying a concept's term:
• rename the associated term. All objects associated with the term (concept, concept property, state concept, etc.) take on the new name.
• unlink the existing term and link another or create a new one.
To unlink the concept term:
1. Open the concept properties.
2. Click the Characteristics page.
3. Click Designated term.
4. Select the term and click Remove.
A confirmation message appears.
Check Remove from (followed by object name) to unlink the term without removing it from the repository, or Delete to remove it from the repository.
Concept Properties
To access concept properties:
Select the concept concerned and click the Properties 
button in the edit area.Characteristics
The Characteristics age 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 Description, i.e. the text of its definition
• its designation which is represented by one or more 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 Searching for Terms in the Business Glossary.
• Its synonyms, Hypernyms and Hyponyms
For example, in the Financial domain, 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.Components
The Components page presents:
• the list of concept components owned, for more details see 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 Concept or Individual States.Super types
The Relationships > Super-Type page presents concepts whose properties are inherited by the described concept, for more details see Concept Inheritances t
For more details, see Concept Type.Realizations
The Relationships > Realization page allows to define the objects that the concept implements. It can be one of two types of implementation:
• A regulatory requirement: a policy framework, a business policy, a quality dimension, etc.
• A business information realization.
For more details, see Connecting the Business Concepts to the Logical and Physical architecture.Regulations
The Regulations page allows you to define which internal or external regulations apply to the object in question.
When a concept belongs to a data category covered by a regulation, the name of the regulation appears on this page.
To connect a regulation to the concept:
1. Click on the Regulations page.
2. Click on the Connect button.
A window appears.
3. Indicate the type of regulation you want to link (Regulatory Framework, Business Policy, etc.).
4. From the list that appears, select the regulation in question.
For more details on regulations, see Rules and Regulations.Data Quality
In the Data Quality page, you can indicate whether a quality policy applies to the object in question.
For more details, see Data Quality.Reporting
Different types of reports are available on the concept:
• Data Dendrogram: illustrates the environment of the concept.
• Information usage and processing graph report
• Realization graph report: shows by which architecture elements the concept is implemented.or the information elements the concept realizes.
• Use of information. The report displays:
• the domains that use the concept, with which access rights
• in which systems (applications, application systems, application service or microservice) these domains are used and by which components of these systems, specifying the access mode (read or read/write).
For more details on data reports, see Data Reports and Analysis Tools.
Workflows
The workflow page allows you to launch the data-specific design workflow on the concept.
See also Data Validation Workflow.