Perspective

The main navigation pane of TIBCO Cloud™ Metadata, called a perspective, is located at the left of the screen. It allow the user to access to all features that are accessible to him according to the permissions that are associated to his profile. Features are groups by sections, each one identified by its own color. The perspective can be horizontally resized by dragging is right border and reduced to the display of icons by clicking on the arrow at the upper right corner.

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• Home

  The first section called "Home" gathers all actions which are not specific to any metadata. It includes an home page, a global search, accesses to worfklows, accesses to dashboards and an access to your profile where you can modify your details. Icons are black to mark that they are not associated to a specific kind of metadata.

• Catalog

  This section groups all logical descriptions including applications, datasets and data elements. A logical description is a universal and common description of entities which are not necessarily materialized. An application can be described before it exists. A dataset can be documented before the corresponding data values are stored in, or provided by, a physical asset.

• Governance

  In the Governance section are documentation about how the data is managed by the different business domains. Each domain can have its own terminology and roles. This is also here that are defined the groups of persons along with their roles and entitlements over data. Data programs aims to register any program, initiative or project around data.

• Metadata

  The materialization of the dataset described in the catalog is documented in the Metadata section. Asset are physical resources containing or providing data. Their technical structures and properties according to their types are located in this section.

• Technology

  Data management relies on instances that are represented as many systems. This is an instance of a system running on a given infrastructure which exposes data. Systems can also be any system entering in the process of data management and governance. They are provided by a provider which can be a vendor or any other external or internal organization.

• Privacy

  The management of data privacy, as it is required by many regulation authorities, implies to keep an inventory of processing activities and personal consents. It also requires to register any request coming from personal data owner but also data breaches to be communicated to them. Connected to physical assets containing them, systems processing them and concepts defining their nature, all conditions are unified to ensure the compliance to any rules that their usage implies.