Data and Information Inventory and Attributes

Capabilities produce and consume Data and Information types. The Key Output Data and Information and Key Input Data and Information attributes on Capability records reference data types by name; when this inventory is mature, those references are replaced by Semantic IDs. The Capabilities Inventory and Attributes is published and available.

When this relationship is established, the enterprise can answer: what data does Capability X require to function? What data does it produce? Which capabilities would be impaired by a quality failure in data type Y? Which data types are produced by only one capability, creating single-point-of-failure exposure in the data production chain?

The Producing Capabilities and Consuming Capabilities relationship attributes in this inventory are derived from the Capabilities Inventory when the cross-inventory linkage is mature. At Crawl and Walk maturity, the connection is maintained manually through the Capabilities Inventory’s Input/Output attributes.