Meta Object Definitions
From CC EnterprisePLUS [E+]
Value
Force (external or internal) Modified - An external or internal factor that forces or pushes some aspect of an enterprise in a specific direction.
Driver (external or internal) Modified - An external or internal factor that drives, establishes motivation for or influences the direction of an enterprise.
Vision Modified - The desired future state of the enterprise. An imagination of the future aspirational state of how the enterprise could or should be like without regard as to how this will be achieved.
Requirement Modified - A requirement is an agreed upon statement as to 'what must be delivered to provide requirement.
Value Proposition Modified - The merit and benefit that a customer, added value partner or the market itself can obtain from their perspective and point of view.
Strategy (Strategic Objective) Modified - The direction and ends to which the enterprise seeks as well as the means and methods by which the ends will be attained.
Goal (business, application or technology) Modified - A desired result considered a part of the organizational direction, aims, targets, and aspirations.
Quality Modified - A state of excellence or worth specifying the essential and distinguishing individual nature and the attributes based on the intended use.
Risk Modified - The combined impact of any conditions or events, including those caused by uncertainty, change, hazards or other factors that can affect the potential for achieving objectives.
Security Modified - The objects or tools that secure, make safe and protect through measures to prevent exposure to danger or risk.
Measure Modified - Any type of measurement used to gauge some quantifiable component of an enterprise’s performance.
Report Modified - The exposure, description, and portrayal of information about the status, direction or execution of work within the functions, services, processes, and resources of the enterprise.
Time Modified - A plan, schedule, arrangement or measure for when something should initiate, take place, be completed or the amount of time consumed.
Monitor Modified - To be aware of the state, through observation or measuring. To supervise and to continually check and critically observe. It means to determine the current status and to assess whether or not required or expected performance levels are actually being achieved.
Control Modified - The exercise of restraining or directing influence. It includes decision-making aspects with accompanying decision logic necessary to ensure compliance.
Plan Modified - The notion of thinking about and organizing the tasks required to achieve a desired output.
Pain Point Modified - The place where there is a "pain" due to a source of perplexity, distress, difficulty, challenge, issue or problem in an area.
Business Competency
Enterprise Capability Modified - A enterprise capability is an abstraction that represents the ability to perform a particular skillset i.e. organizational competencies, personal competencies, business function, processes, services, and technology.
Organizational Competency Modified - An integrated and holistic set of related knowledge, skills, and abilities related to a specific set of resources (including persons and organizations) that - once combined - enables the enterprise to do something well.
Resource Modified - A specific person, expertise, data, information, material, machine, land, capital or organization that is required to accomplish an activity or as a means to act on behalf of the enterprise to achieve a desired outcome.
Actor Modified - Any person, organization, or system that may be assigned one or more roles. Actors may be internal or external to an organization.
Role Modified - A part that something or someone has the rights, rules, competencies, and capabilities to perform. A resource and/ or actor may have a number of roles i.e. process role, service role or application role and many actors may be assigned the same role.
Product Modified - A result and output generated by the enterprise. It has a combination of tangible and intangible attributes (i.e.. features, functions, usage).
Contract Modified - An agreement between two or more parties that establishes conditions for interaction.
Organizational Rule Modified - A statement that defines or constrains some aspect of behaviour within the enterprise and always resolves to either true or false.
Location Modified - A point, facility, place or geographic position that may be referred to physically or logically.
Business Channel Modified - A means of access or otherwise interacting within an enterprise or between an enterprise and its external partners (i.e.. customers, vendors, suppliers, etc.).
Business Media Modified - The material or matter used to store information (i.e. printed page, digital tape, CD, disk as well as non-volatile storage, screen, or memory).
Business Workflow Modified - A flow, stream, sequence, course, succession, series or progression of as well as order for the movement of information or material from one enterprise function, service or activity (work site) to another.
Portfolio Modified - A grouping of concepts to analyze and collectively manage current or proposed programs and projects based on numerous key characteristics. The objective is to determine the optimal resource mix for delivery and to schedule activities to best achieve an organization’s operational and financial goals, while honouring constraints imposed by stakeholders, users, strategic objectives, or external real-world factors.
Program Modified - The concept of managing several related topics/projects, often with the intention of improving an organization's performance. In practice and in its aims, program management is often closely related to portfolio management, engineering, change management, and business transformation. Aimed at accomplishing clear business, information or technology objectives, with details on what work is to be done, by whom, when, and what means or resources will be used.
Project Modified - A project is a temporary endeavor with a beginning and an end, and it should be used to create a unique solution, product, service or result. Typically, projects also includes roadmaps, timelines, what must be done, who is involved, as well as which resources are required, etc.
Business Service
Service Construct (setup and delivery) Modified - The setup and arrangement which creates, organizes, and delivers business services.
Business Service Modified - The externally visible [logical] deed or effort performed to satisfy a need or to fulfill a demand that is meaningful to the [business] environment.
Service Flow (output and input) Modified - A set of one or more service input or output states where each service state defines a step in the service flow that - when entered - executes a certain behaviour.
Service Rule Modified - A statement that defines or constrains some aspect of the creation of value within the enterprise.
Service Channel Modified - A logical or physical communication path used to requisition provision or deliver outputs to or by business services.
Business Process
Business Process Modified - A set of structured activities or tasks with logical behaviour that produce a specific service or product.
Event Modified - Something that happens, this may include a planned occasion or a state change that recognizes the triggering or termination of processing.
Process Flow (incl. input and output) Modified - A flow, stream, sequence, course, succession, series or progression that are based on the process input or output states where each process input or output defines the process flow that together executes a behaviour.
Process Rule Modified - A statement that defines or constrains some aspect of work and always resolves to either true or false.
Application
Application Component Modified - An encapsulation of application functionality that is independent of a particular implementation.
Application Module Modified - A single executable part - which is part of a larger application - that provides identifiable functions and exists within a specific application component.
Application Feature Modified - A notable property or characteristic of an application that can include a trait or design constraint.
Application Function Modified - The specification of a significant aspect of the internal behaviour of the application which acts as a broader description of a set of application features.
Application Task Modified - The automated behaviour of a process activity performed by an application.
Application Service Modified - An externally visible unit of functionality, provided by one or more components, exposed through well-defined interfaces, and meaningful to the environment.
Information Flow Modified - The specification of the sequence in which two application tasks processes, or an application task and an application event or gateway are executed, one of which provides an output which is an input to the other.
Application/System Report Modified - Reports that are defined and implementable or implemented within or by an application.
Application/System Modified - A collection of software adding capability to the enterprise through its ability to enable work.
Application Role Modified - A part recognized within an application, providing behaviour to automate or enable some parts of a business function, service or process task.
Application Rule Modified - A business rule that is implemented within and executed by an application.
Application Compliance (incl. Security) Modified - Behaviour or ability within an application whereby it can certify the integrity of application rules.
Application Channel Modified - A physical communication path used by one or more applications to requisition, provision, or deliver outputs.
Application Media Modified - Material or matter used by an application as the source or method of accepting or providing inputs and outputs.
Data
Data Object Modified - A logical cluster of all sets of related data representing the data object view of a business or information object.
Data Entity Modified - An encapsulation of data where logical data entities are a specification of the organization of information to store data as a physical persistence structure e.g. data tied to applications, repositories, and services.
Data Table Modified - A physical specification of the means of arranging data in rows and columns while being stored in a physical persistence structure e.g. data tied to applications, repositories, and services.
Data Service Modified - A standardized and uniform way of accessing information in a form that is useful to enterprise applications without requiring knowledge of its physical persistence structure.
Data Rule Modified - Criteria used in the process of determining or verifying values of data or generalizing certain features of data.
Data Compliance (incl. Security) Modified - The means of adhering to and verifying adherence to policies and decisions about the data.
Platform
Platform Component Modified - An abstract description of the features of the existing environment that the application software is expected to have to allow it to execute.
Platform Device Modified - A set of platform components configured to act as a modular part of a platform.
Platform Function Modified - The specification of a significant job and/or task of the internal behaviour of the platform.
Platform Service Modified - A technical delivery task required to provide platform enablement mechanisms to support the delivery of one or more parts of an application.
Platform Compliance (incl. Security) Modified - The means of adhering to and verifying adherence to policies and decisions about the platform.
Platform Media Modified - The matter or material provided by a platform as the source or method for storing data.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure Component Modified - An abstract description of the features of the existing environment that the platform requires to operate.
Infrastructure Device Modified - A set of infrastructure components configured to act as a modular part of the infrastructure.
Infrastructure Function Modified - The specification of a significant aspect of the internal behaviour of the infrastructure which acts as a broader description of a set of infrastructure features.
Infrastructure Feature Modified - A notable property or characteristic of the infrastructure that can include a trait or design constraint.
Infrastructure Service Modified - A technical delivery task required to provide infrastructure enablement mechanisms to support the delivery of one or more parts of a platform.
Infrastructure Rule Modified - Criteria used in the process of determining the behaviour of the infrastructure.
Infrastructure Compliance (incl. Security) Modified - The means of adhering to and verifying adherence to policies and decisions about the infrastructure.
Infrastructure Media Modified - The matter or material provided by an infrastructure as the source or method for transmitting data.
Infrastructure Channel Modified - A physical communication path used by an infrastructure component to provide the resources needed by a platform.
- Value
- Business Competency
- Business Service
- Business Process
- Application
- Data
- Platform
- Infrastructure