You can create business terms that represent your organization's terminology.

Some IBM Knowledge Catalog plans have limits on the number of terms that you can create.

Required permissions

To create, edit, or delete business terms, you must have this user permission:

- Access governance artifacts

Additionally, you must have one of these category collaborator roles in the primary category for the business term:

• Admin
• Owner
• Editor
• A custom role with the permission to create, edit, or delete business terms.

Open Governance > Business Terms, then click New business term and select one of the available options to create a new business term. Depending on how you create the terms, you can then decide to:

• Save the business terms as a draft.
• Send the business terms for approval. See Workflow.

You can directly create a business term or import business terms from a CSV file.

When you work on a business term:

• Refer to the general information on managing governance artifacts.

• Organize your business terms in categories and hierarchies.

• Relate a term to classifications or data classes. Use Show hierarchy to view the hierarchy of related classifications.

• Define relationships among business terms, synonyms, or other business terms. If other types of relationship are defined, for example, between terms and policies, you can see and edit them in the details section.

• Edit custom properties on the business term in the details section. Use the Edit values toggle to edit values for all available custom properties. When the toggle is switched off, you can only see those properties for which values are defined.

• Edit abbreviations.