Concept Models Are Simply Not Data Models

Tags: business semantics, business vocabulary, concept model, data model, functional silos, semantic silos, semantics, white collar automation
Written by Ronald G. Ross on . Posted in Concept Models, Data Models, Vocabulary
Tags: business semantics, business vocabulary, concept model, data model, functional silos, semantic silos, semantics, white collar automation
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Jacob Vos
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Quote: “a concept model can be used as the basis for designing a model of the data needed to support processes”.
I really would like to integrate them as tight as possible. Especially in the situations where business rules are defined on top of the concept model. I must not think about maintaining those rules both on top of the concept model and also – let’s say – in a conceptual model built in ORM.
How do you see practically such a relation (on tool level)?
Ronald G. Ross
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The long-term solution is platforms that can operate completely at a semantic level, and map concepts to ‘data’ automatically. That’s why I spend my time working on the SBVR standard. It’s a major shift in mindset … and certainly won’t happen overnight.