A storage and recovery strategy that protects against business information loss resulting from hardware, software, or network faults.

An enterprise, commercial entity, or firm in either the private or public sector, concerned with providing products or services to satisfy customer requirements.

A statement of business intent measured subjectively; for example, to move up market, or to develop a sustainable level of growth; usually strategic or tactical with a 3-5 year horizon.

The set of business processes within the scope of a project.

One of the four layers of an information systems architecture. Business architecture describes the functions a business performs and the information it uses.

Any external, management, or other factor that restricts a business or system development in terms of resource availability, dependencies, timescales, or some other factor.

Information about people, places, things, business rules, and events, which is used to operate the business.

The people, information, and tasks that support the fulfillment of a business objective.

Something an enterprise does, or needs to do, in order to achieve its objectives.

A statement of business intent.

A uniquely identifiable geographic location, site, or place from which one or more business units may wholly or partly operate.

A view of the business at any given point in time. The view can be from a process, data, event or resource perspective, and can be the past, present or future state of the business.

A unit of work acted upon by a data capture system to create, modify, or delete business data. Each transaction represents a single valued fact describing a single business event.

A physical or logical object of significance to a business; for example, a sales order, department, assembly, item, balance, or invoice. A business object is analogous to a class in object-oriented terminology.

A classification of a business organization into one of several functional categories. Each business organization type has a distinct set of business requirements. All the business organizations of a certain type will typically require similar applications and system capabilities. A given site may house one or more business organization types. Since business organizations may be related in a hierarchy, a high level business organization may be composed of several business organizations of different types. For the purposes of application architecture analysis and design, it is generally useful to decompose the hierarchy of business organizations until it is composed of atomic organization types.

A statement of the level or urgency of important business needs.

The activity by which an enterprise reexamines its goals and how it achieves them, followed by a disciplined approach of business process redesign. A method that supports this activity.

A rule under which an organization operates. A policy or decision that influences the process step.

A combination of people and automated applications organized to meet a particular set of business objectives.

Part of an organization treated for any purpose as a separate entity within the parent organization. Examples include a department or distribution center.