Logical data elements are extracted from your documents by specialized AI agents, or added manually by your team
AI-powered extraction
The agent reads data dictionaries and glossaries, extracting business terms with their definitions, data types, and domain classifications.
Processes these document types:
Smart Parsing
Understands tables, lists, and prose definitions
Manual entry & review
Business analysts and data stewards can add terms directly or refine and approve agent-extracted definitions.
Human actions:
Full Control
Every AI suggestion requires human approval
Every record carries a trust score based on its source document maturity level. High-maturity documents (like approved Technical Specifications) produce higher-trust inventory records.
High Trust
From approved data dictionaries, signed-off glossaries
Medium Trust
From draft definitions, work-in-progress models
Low Trust
From informal docs, emails, early requirements
Trust Score Distribution
Records start as "pending" and must be approved before they are used in downstream processing like lineage generation
Pending
Awaiting review
Use
Ready for lineage
Lineage
Connected to pipelines
Setting a logical element to "Use" enables it for semantic matching — IDA will automatically find physical columns that match this business term.
Manage business terms with definitions, data types, and domain classifications
| # | Trust | Action | Element ID | Element Name | Definition | Data Type | Domain | Source Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | High | Use | LDE-CUST-001 | Customer ID | Unique identifier assigned to each customer in the system | String | Customer | Customer Data Dictionary v3.xlsx |
| 2 | High | Use | LDE-ACCT-001 | Account Balance | Current monetary balance of the customer account | Decimal | Finance | Financial Terms Glossary.pdf |
| 3 | Medium | Use | LDE-TXN-001 | Transaction Date | Date and time when the transaction was processed | DateTime | Transaction | Transaction Processing Requirements.docx |
| 4 | Medium | Pending | LDE-PROD-001 | Product Name | Official name of the financial product or service | String | Product | Product Catalog Data Model.xlsx |
| 5 | Low | Pending | LDE-RISK-001 | Risk Score | Calculated risk assessment value for credit decisions | Integer | Risk | Risk Assessment Business Req.docx |
| 6 | Low | Pending | LDE-ADDR-001 | Address Line 1 | Primary street address component for customer location | String | Customer | Manual entry via UI |
This is a preview — the real interface supports full CRUD operations
Logical elements define business meaning — explore all four inventories that form your complete data landscape
See how IDA can automatically extract business definitions from your data dictionaries and glossaries in a 30-minute demo.