Using Business Elements

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Business Elements are often used by business users to document their list of “terms and/or definitions”. While from a business user’s point-of-view, this may be no more than a list of terms, they can be used by a modeler to seed attributes of semantically-rich models. A “business element” can be bound to different business attributes across conceptual models to enforce naming and definition standards. An organization can achieve a common meaning and lineage around core business concepts such as “customer”, “customer identifier”, “trade”, etc. by using the business element concept.

In Conceptual Modeling, a business element can be used like a domain is used at the logical level. Business Elements can be “bound” to business attributes to seed a conceptual model and enforce standards.