Business Element

Definition:

A unit of information that has a specific meaning in the context of a business process or collection of processes within a data domain.

Commentary:

Business concepts and business terms are different than business elements. Business elements are aligned to terms which express a concept.

Business elements are the documented requirements (or needs) for data as defined by one or more business processes.

The realization of a business element in physical form is achieved by a data element.

Business elements cannot be directly inspected or measured in this form as they do not physically exist in a data field that allows the capture of a data value. The physical instance of a data element that is aligned to the business element allows the capture of data values and can be inspected or measured.