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Overview

Meta Hub is a Boomi platform feature designed to centralize and manage metadata across your organization. It enables users to define, discover, and govern shared business terms—known as glossaries—to ensure consistent understanding of data and its meaning across systems, integrations, and teams.

Meta Hub helps organizations establish a single source of truth for business metadata, promoting clarity, reducing duplication, and improving collaboration between technical and business users.

With Meta Hub, you can:

  • create and manage business glossaries and their definitions.
  • track glossary publication and endorsement workflows.
  • maintain transparency into who creates, updates, and approves business terms.

Meta Hub is particularly useful for:

  • data stewards and admins managing business data governance.
  • developers integrating business metadata into automated workflows.
  • business users who need visibility into approved and standardized data terminology.

Learn about the prerequisites, installation, and configuration of Meta Hub in this section.

Prerequisites

To access and use Meta Hub, you need the following:

  • Boomi Platform Access: A Boomi account with access to Data Hub and Meta Hub services.
  • User Roles:
    • Meta Admin or Meta Steward roles to create, publish, and endorse glossaries.
    • Meta User role for read-only access to view glossaries and endorsement history.
    • Custom roles. Learn more about creating custom roles in Creating custom roles. Here are the privileges related to Meta Hub.
      • META - Delete Glossary - Allows deletion of glossaries
      • META - Edit Glossary - View, create, update, or publish glossaries
      • META - Edit Glossary Endorsement - Update endorsement status of glossaries
      • META - View Glossary - Read access to glossaries
      • META - View Glossary Endorsement History - View endorsement status history of glossaries
  • Browser Compatibility: The latest versions of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Mozilla Firefox are supported.
  • Network Permissions: Ensure firewall and security settings allow access to the Boomi Platform and API endpoints.

Configuration

After accessing Meta Hub from the services menu, configure initial settings to align with your organization's governance model.

  1. Assign User Roles:
    • Designate Meta Admins and Meta Stewards who can create, publish, and endorse glossaries. Meta Stewards cannot delete glossaries.
    • Grant Meta User access for team members who need view-only permissions.
    • To learn more about assigning user roles, read Setting up user accounts and access.
  2. Set Governance Standards:
    • Define internal naming conventions for glossaries and terms.
    • Establish endorsement guidelines and approval workflows.
  3. Integrate with Existing Data Hub Entities (Optional):
    • Align glossary terms with Data Hub entities to create contextual links between business terms and data models.
  4. Enable API Access (Optional):
    • Use Meta Hub REST APIs to automate glossary creation, publishing, and endorsement operations.
    • Obtain API credentials and permissions from your Boomi administrator.
    • To learn more about authentication, read Repository API or AgentStudio.

Once configured, Meta Hub is ready for users to create and manage glossaries that drive consistent business language and metadata governance across the organization. To learn about agent management and Meta Hub, read Connecting a business glossary to your agent.

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