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IBM Knowledge Accelerator for Cross Industry
Last updated: Jun 21, 2024
What is the Knowledge Accelerator for Cross Industry

The Knowledge Accelerator for Cross Industry provides a vocabulary to support cross-industry requirements, in plain business language, that can be clearly understood and communicated by both business and IT professionals.

The Knowledge Accelerator for Cross Industry is represented as a category of business terms within IBM Knowledge Catalog. It consists of a comprehensive vocabulary of business terms, business scopes that focus on particular business use cases and industry alignment vocabularies that align key elements from data privacy regulations to the business terms.

The Knowledge Accelerator for Cross Industry has three Business Scopes available for separate download and import which are:
  • Data Privacy
  • Contact Center
  • Weather Insights

Watch the following videos for a walk-through of each of the Knowledge Accelerator for Cross Industry business scopes.

Video disclaimer: These videos provide a visual method to learn the concepts and tasks in this documentation. Some minor steps and graphical elements in these videos may differ from your Cloud Pak for Data deployment.

Business scopes for Cross Industry
Data Privacy business scope Contact Center business scope Weather Insights business scope

The business scopes can be imported individually to address one or more business use cases. Multiple scopes can be imported with common terms being shared across the scopes.

Identifying and classifying personal data and complying with data privacy regulations are key requirements for all industries. The Knowledge Accelerator for Cross Industry Data Privacy scope contains a set of business terms and data classes to accelerate the discovery and governance of personal information and the activities that are related to processing such information.

For a more detailed description and a list of the main concepts see Cross Industry Business Scopes available for separate import.

Clearly defined business terms help standardization and communication within an organization and are a foundation for governance of enterprise information assets. The Knowledge Accelerator for Cross Industry Business Core Vocabulary terms are organized by logical business categories.

The Business Core Vocabulary areas covered are:
Business Core Vocabulary Categories in the Knowledge Accelerator for Cross Industry
  • Activity
  • Equipment
  • Payment
  • Communication
  • Location
  • Person
  • Customer
  • Organization
  • Product

Data privacy regulations are a critical part of any business and the Knowledge Accelerator for Cross Industry includes two Industry Alignment Vocabularies covering the key terms or reporting elements and the structure of the GDPR and CCPA regulations. While separate, these vocabularies are also mapped to the Business Core Vocabulary terms.

For more information on Knowledge Accelerators visit https://www.ibm.com/cloud/knowledge-accelerators.

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