| Business Actor |
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A business entity capable of performing actions. |
| business role |
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responsibility for performing specific actions, actor can be assigned, or a section actorPlay during a specific action or event. |
| Business Cooperation |
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A collection of two or more structural elements of activities within a business that work together to perform collective actions. |
| Business Process |
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A set of business behaviors that achieve a specific result, such as a defined set of products or business services. |
| Business functions |
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A collection of business behaviors based on a selected set of criteria (often requiring business resources and/or capabilities), closely aligned with, but not necessarily explicitly bound by, an organization. |
| business interaction |
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A unit of collective business conduct performed by two or more business roles (cooperation). |
| business event |
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A business behavior element that represents a change in the state of an organization. It may originate within or outside the organization and be addressed within the organization. |
| business service |
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Well-defined exposed business practices. |
| business interface |
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Business services are available as access points to the environment. |
| business object |
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Concepts used within a specific business area. |
| product |
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A coherent collection of service and/or passive structural elements, accompanied by a set of (internal or external) client contracts/agreements. |
| contract |
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A formal or informal specification of an agreement between a provider and a consumer that specifies rights and obligations related to a product and establishes functional and non-functional parameters for interaction. |
| Express |
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The perceivable form of information carried by a business object. |