MONITORING THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION QUALITY ON BUSINESS APPLICATION COMPONENTS THROUGH AN IMPACT MAP TO DATA SOURCES

摘要

The present disclosure relates to building and maintaining an impact map for a plurality of business application components (BACs) operating in a computing environment. The impact map impact map identifies associations between the BACs operating in the computing environment and terms in the business glossary. The business glossary specifies terms used by the plurality of BACs. The impact map may be updated in response to changes in the computing environment, such as a BAC being added to the computing environment, a change in a stated use of a term by one of the BACs, and an update to a measure of importance of one of the terms to a BAC which uses that term, updating an impact map to reflect the indicated change.