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Business Natural Language:
cornerstone in Financial Business
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Challenge: business & IT alignment
ERP
SME
GL
system owner
CRM
process owner
Business Process &
System
Ownership
• Customer in sales is
different from finance…
• Who is responsible…?
• Our organization is not
very mature…
• We have issues engaging
& coordinating (business)
stakeholders…
• What about my reference
data…?
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BNL across the enterprise
Bank (semantic community)
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Common
(speech community)
Party
Vocab.
(vocabulary)
Asset
Vocab.
(vocabulary)
Product
Vocab.
(vocabulary)
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•
•
Party
Organization
Address
…
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•
•
•
Asset
Building
Equipment
…
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•
•
•
Loan
Swap
Revolving Limit
…
Finance
Legend
(speech community)
• Semantic community: group of people that have
a shared understanding of concepts
• Speech community: group of people that share
vocabulary (to refer to the concepts in their parent
semantic community)
• Vocabulary: logical grouping of terms (owned by
a speech community)
Finance
Vocab.
(vocabulary)
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•
•
•
Credit
Stock
Cash
…
Risk
(speech community)
Risk
Vocab.
(vocabulary)
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•
•
•
Roles
Exposure
Mortgage
Collateral
…
Wholesale
Standards
(speech community)
(speech community)
Risk
Vocab.
(vocabulary)
FSDM
(vocabulary)
ISO2022
(vocabulary)
• Involved Party
• Business
Direction
• Product
• Event
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•
•
•
Payment
Payment Status
Account
…
Collibra Cheat Sheet
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• A community member has a certain role (e.g.,
definition owner, content owner, data steward, …)
• Collaboration of required authorized members is
required to move concepts (i.e. move ownership
between communities).
Global / local
Exposure
Mortgage
Collateral
…
Other
(speech community)
Other
Vocab. 1
Other
Vocab. 2
(vocabulary)
(vocabulary)
• Utopia Bank Common represents bank-wide
interests (e.g., common terms for Basel III).
• Local communities (e.g., Risk) handle their terms
and definitions.
• Appropriate relations and mappings are made
(e.g., synonym, taxonomy, …).
SBVR
Semantics of
Business
Vocabulary
and Rules
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Business & data definitions
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Policies & rules
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Easy visualization
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BNL Search and discovery
Result: aligned business
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is part of
ERP
GL
system owner
CRM
Business Concept
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Attribute 01
Attribute 02
Attribute 03
Attribute 04
Attribute 05
Attribute …
chief steward
steward
steward
process owner
Business Process &
System
Ownership
Data
Ownership
reports to
SME
is part of
Data Governance
Council
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Thank you
Questions & Feedback ?
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http://www.collibra.com
contact@collibra.com
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Involve the
community
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Coordinate stakeholders
AECMA Simple English
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Financial Products
Courtesy of Poppy Quintal (see www.aecma.org/Publications/SEnglish/senglish.htm
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