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“A high-level of an organization's mission,
function, and information architecture. The model consists of a business
function model and a business data model.” (TOGAF glossary). |
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Business process structure |
A hierarchical decomposition of a process into lower-level processes. |
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Business function (or capability) structure |
A hierarchy of logical business functions, within
an enterprise. Ideally, the business function hierarchy and the process
hierarchy can be decomposed to the same level – meaning that every bottom
level business function is also an elementary step in a business process. |
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Business model |
1: A business data model. Or 2: An enterprise
model. Architects tend to use definition 1 or 2. Or 3: What-if models of business operations,
whether in spreadsheets or animated process models in CASE tools. A CFO or
commercial business manager is likely to use this last definition. |
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Business data model |
A conceptual model of business terms and facts,
independent of any specific computer application. The entities in the model
represent features of the real world. May also be known as a domain model. It usually takes the form of a data structure
that defines business terms and concepts in the form of entities, attributes
and relationships. |
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Business semantics |
A definition of business rules: that is, terms,
facts, constraints on data values and process steps and derivation rules for
data items. May be recorded in a business data model and/or the pre and post
conditions of business process steps and automated business services. |