Business Layer - Structure Concepts
Business Layer: Active Structure Concepts
Business Actor
Business Role
Business Collaboration
Business Interface
Location
Business Actor
Business Actor is an organisational entity capable of performing behavior. The Business Actor is someone who performs behaviour assigned to a business role. The Actor may be a person, group, department, business unit. The business actor exists both outside the organisation (i.e. customer) and inside the organisation (i.e. sales person). The Name of a Business Actor should be a noun.
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Business Role
The Business Role establishes responsibilities for behavior. These responsibilities can be associated with the Actor responsible, and with functions and processes that do the actual behaving. Also used to show the division of labor and responsibility within organisations. The name of a business role should be a noun.
Business role is responsible for performing specific behavior, to which an actor can be assigned.
Related Business Role with Other Elements
Business Actor assigned to Business Role
Business Role assigned to Business Process or Business Function
Business / Application Interface used by Business Role
Business Role composed of Business Interfaces
Example
In the model below, the business role Insurance Seller is fulfilled by the Insurance Department actor and has telephone as a provided interface. The business role Insurance Buyer is fulfilled by the Customer actor, and has telephone as a required interface.
Business Collaboration
Business collaboration is aggregate of two or more roles that work together to perform collective behavior. A Business Collaboration will occur between two or more business roles. For instance, a salesperson collaborates with a customer (external) or a sales manager may collaborate with a sales person (internal). In a B2B context, organisations collaborate with each other. The name should preferably be a noun. Collaboration is a way of recognizing the existence of some link between roles. The actual behavior is regarded as a Business Interaction.
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Business Collaborations aggregated of roles
Business Collaboration assigned to Business Interactions
Business / Application Interface used by Business Collaboration
Business Collaboration composed of Business Interfaces
Business Interface
Business Interface is a point of access where a business service is made available to the environment. It is a point of actual contact. It could be physical, like talking to a salesperson in a shop. Or perhaps nowadays it is by means of phone or web (both examples of “channels”). Can be a provided or required interface. Should be named as a noun.
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This example puts an organization into its environment, consisting of external parties such as customers, suppliers, and other business partners. It is very useful in determining external dependencies and business interface and shows the value chain or network in which the actor operates.
Business Role composed of a Business Interface
Business Interface used by a Business Role
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Business Interface can also be assigned to Business Services
Location
The Location models the distribution of structural elements. Location is a conceptual point or extent in space.
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Location assigned to other Structural elements
Location assigned to other Behavioral elements
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This example describes the relationships between applications components in terms of the information flows between them, or in terms of the services they offer and use. This example creates an overview of the application landscape of an organization and expresses the (internal) co-operation or orchestration of services that together support the execution of a business process.
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