Artifact: Business Entity

A Business Entity is a specific type of class representing a real world 'thing' such as a document, physical item, or concept that people within organization use or refer to during their work. These Business Entities usually evolve into analysis or design classes.

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Purpose

A domain or business object model holds a set of Business Entities and the relationships between them. Each Business Entity is modeled as a class so its name, primary responsibilities, key attributes, and relationships can be defined. The Artifact: Business Use Cases and Artifact: Business Use Case Realizations explain how Business Entities are created or manipulated during one or more business processes.

Audience

The following roles use the Business Entity:

• The Role: Business Process Analyst and Role: Business Designer use it to capture information about key abstractions in the business, and possibly to describe the business processes in detail.
• The Role: Software Designer uses Business Entities as input to developing analysis and design models, including use case realizations.
• The Role: Requirements Analyst and Role: Information Architect use it as input to the common vocabulary used when defining requirements and developing wireframes, respectively.
• All other roles may use this information to understand and apply the project's key concepts.