BOMA Common Business Objects

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BOMA Common Business Objects

• SES Software Inc

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CBO Purpose

• Business concepts
• Share mental model
• Common terminology
• Business object taxonomy
• Model business not technology
• Hide technological aspects
• Business technology components

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Business Engineering Model
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Enterprise Metamodel
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Enterprise Model
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BOMA Taxonomy
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Purpose Objects

• Vision, mission, goals objectives
• Model, plan simulate
• Hierarchy measure of purpose
• Financial measures accounts
• Standards, benchmarks norms
• Decisions information
• Data warehouses ledgers

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Process Objects

• Purpose achieved by process
• Fractal processes workflow
• Atomic steps transactions
• Resource interaction
• Organization roles
• Change frequently

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Resource Objects

• Consumed produced by processes
• Model real world entities
• Have multiple aspects
• Have common properties
• Evolve over time
• Legacies are resources

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Organization Objects

• Organizations are systems
• Organization is management
• Organization units roles
• Horizontal vertical viewpoints
• Management of complexity
• Adaptive organizations

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is_a has_a Properties
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Object Evolution
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Standardization Potential

• High
• Data warehouses ledgers
• Generic processes workflow
• Resource has_a properties
• Low
• Specific processes
• Resource is_a properties
• Most organization objects