Business language
Firm-specific terminology, abbreviations, synonyms, workflow language, statuses, and authoritative definitions.
Information / Business Semantics & Reporting
Define what the business means.
Nornoet works with stakeholders to define the terminology, entities, metrics, calculations, reports, ownership, and usage rules the organization relies on, then connects those meanings to the systems and workflows where they are used.
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The Problem
Shared words do not guarantee shared meaning.
The same term may mean something different to operations, finance, marketing, and leadership. Reports may use undocumented calculations. Critical definitions may live only in one employee's memory. When meaning stays implicit, reporting conflicts, migrations become riskier, and AI is forced to guess.
What We Define
A governed language for people, systems, and AI.
Entities and relationships
The clients, cases, matters, contracts, properties, transactions, and other concepts the organization manages.
Metrics and calculations
Approved formulas, inclusion and exclusion rules, time periods, formats, owners, and known exceptions.
Reports and decisions
Report purpose, intended questions, audiences, authorized users, sources, dependencies, schedules, and limitations.
Ownership and authority
Business owners, technical owners, producers, consumers, approvers, and escalation paths.
AI interpretation rules
Approved sources, ambiguous terms, prohibited inferences, clarification requirements, and validation expectations.
Reporting Architecture
Document what a report is supposed to mean.
A useful report catalog captures more than a title. It defines the business question, intended audience, responsible department, authorized users, source data, calculations, filters, frequency, distribution, known limitations, and whether overlapping reports should be consolidated or retired.
Deliverables
Definitions that remain usable after the engagement.
- 01
Business glossary
A governed catalog of approved terms, definitions, synonyms, usage notes, departmental differences, and responsible owners.
- 02
Metric and calculation dictionary
Precise definitions for the measures used in reporting, analytics, automation, and AI-supported decisions.
- 03
Report catalog
An inventory of recurring and important reports, what each should show, who runs it, who receives it, and which sources it depends on.
- 04
Ownership and access map
A clear view of who defines, produces, maintains, approves, consumes, and may access each information asset.
- 05
Structured semantic registry
Machine-readable definitions that can support reporting models, retrieval filters, routing logic, validation, and AI configuration.
Built for Reuse
Not a glossary trapped in a PDF.
Human-readable documentation explains the architecture. Where appropriate, structured registries make it operational by supporting semantic models, report governance, retrieval, permissions, workflow routing, validation, and AI instructions.
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