Definition: A concept that represents a person, place or thing. Commentary: Data entities are described by data attributes.

Definition: A data element that is aligned to a critical business element and is deemed materially important. Commentary: The criticality is a requirement of the business process and thus is assigned ...

Definition: A movement of data from one point to another, without involving any intermediaries at a specific level of granularity, to transport data. Commentary: Data flow is a subset of comprehensive...

Definition: The strategy and execution of how data is designed (i.e., identified and defined) to support the enterprise objectives. Commentary: Data architecture is one of the subcomponents of enterpr...

Definition: The function that defines and implements the standards, controls and best practices of the data management initiative in alignment with strategy. Commentary: Data governance is responsible...

Definition: The function that defines and implements the data content strategy for a given subset of data. Commentary: The data architecture function provides the content engineering bridge between bu...

Definition: The process of aligning all representations of data to precise and consistent meaning. Commentary:

Definition: The name(s) and meaning of common business language. Commentary:

Definition: A specialized form of a logical data model, developed with the target usage intention of being a reference artifact of elevated status above any/all other logical perspectives on the same ...

Definition: A data domain that has been designated, verified, approved and enforced by the data management governing body. Commentary: