A number of customers have asked me recently about the benefits of using a business glossary product over using a spreadsheet or Sharepoint.  The discussion is worth sharing.

If you have a smaller company and all you need is a list of standard business terms to provide a common business vocabulary across the company, a spreadsheet or Sharepoint can work, …up to a point.  The problem is that once your organization reaches a certain size, you are going to have trouble scaling the management of the business terms, making them available across a larger organization, and fostering collaboration based on the agree-upon business terms. (more…)