Business Semantics Glossary

The Business Semantics Glossary is a web-based product aimed at both business as well as technical users. It lets people collaboratively define and govern the meaning of the business assets in their business context.

It is the first enterprise-ready tool that implements the OMG’s SBVR industry standard (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules) to define business vocabularies, facts and rules.

It can automatically generate technical models (UML, XML, ER, OWL, RDF, ...) from natural-language based business facts and rules.

Based on Wiki Paradigm

The Wiki paradigm is a proven technique for stakeholder collaboration, which is essential for evolving your business semantics.

Built-in governance

Apply user roles (e.g., steward, stakeholder) to distribute responsibilities and increase participation. The software takes care of the audit trails who changed what when and why.

Rights Management

Fine grained permission and rights management: decide which users or user groups can view/edit/monitor/... which parts of your business semantics.

Customization

Add custom fields (e.g., legal source, quality, ...) to your vocabulary entries to optimally fit in your organizational context.

Versioning

The software automatically versions everything: review history, rollback to previous versions, monitor change, compare versions, ...

Open API

Easy programmatic access via a fine grained RPC and REST interface.

SBVR standard compliant

Covers the entire SBVR specification for full support of the semantics of your business vocabulary and rules. OMG's SGVR specification is aligned with XMI, MOF, RDF, OWL, ISO CL, and many others.

Methodological support

Supports Business Semantics Management to ensure efficient work and sound results.

Support for classification

Build, import and export taxonomies with your vocabulary entries.

Variety of export formats

Terms, concepts and definitions, ... can easily and efficiently be exported for use in other applications. Export to XMI, XSD, RDF, OWL, CSV, HTML, PDF, ...

Variety of import formats

Import from a variety of formats: UML, XSD, XML, Excel, Word, PDF, Powerpoint, ...

User friendly interface

Creation, management and validation of concepts and definitions in a user friendly web interface. No detailed background knowledge is needed.