1. You can define any number of catalogues in Semanta
You can define any number of catalogues in Semanta. We ship a large set as a default. You can see an overview here. Catalogues are group by logical layers.

2. Relationships are a key to tracibility of changes
Relationships are a key to tracibility of changes. Semanta allows you to built a complete picture of dependencies among objects. You can easily define new relationship type.

3. Business Glossary
People Dictionary
Address
is steward
Person 1
is owner
Person 2
Policy
complies with rule
has child
has child
Data Quality Rules
Property & Causality
Life
<45 characters
has child
has child
Here is your example mapped to Semanta catalogues and entry types. We do not recommend a true hierarchical onthological modelling, but prefer a loosely coupled terms(concepts) linked by different relationship types. Terms defined in the Business Glossary can be linked to People loaded from LDAP or tables/files/columns loaded from database or file systems (including big data platforms)
a-Z, 0-9, “-“ “/“
has data source
Vehicle
Non Vehicle
is defined by
Plate
Data Dictionary
Table
File
has data source
Owner
Column
Column
Expiration date
metadata connectors
Databases
File System

4. Workflow
Enables you to capture any process (demand management, change management, publishing management, report certification)
It enrich this process of details such state, action, transition, notification, authorizations and scripts
It can be linked together with any object type in Semanta (requirements, reports, terms)
Objects of one type can use different processes on the hyerarchical levels (requirements for reporst vs requirements for BI Portal)
The main communication channel are comments and notifications funkcionality
Semanta enables to define any number of Workflow processes
Semanta offers script language for advanced definition of complex workflow
We have a full support for workflow with a rich support for customisation.

5. Workflow
Metamodel of Semanta workflow

6. Versioning We keep comple history of all content in Semanta.
Complete history of all entries and relationships among them
Possibility to
view historical version
restore historical version
compere selected versions
We keep comple history of all content in Semanta.

7. At last, but not least we ship Semanta with our best practices for a practical data governance focus on common everyday tasks with data.