View Manual: Business Information Model

To inform stakeholders regarding the accountability and responsibility towards the services that are routinely rendered by an enterprise – be it an internal service or external service; and the business footprint to inform capacity and network design.

A model that defines the Organisational structure (hierarchical decomposition), the functions/service performed by each organisational unit, the geographic location where these organisation unit reside, and the responsible authority (owner) of these organisation units.

Guidelines for the modelling requirements

• Name and Description must be completed for all classes shown
• If no additional slots are indicated, then just name and description are required
• Mandatory slots are shown in red, these are required for the view to work
• Mandatory slots with an option, i.e. Individual Role OR Group Role, are shown in green, these are required for the view to work
• Optional slots are shown in black. The report will work without these but there may be some blank fields.
• The "classified as" slot is automatically completed except where noted

Top Level

Note:

1. The Static Product Type Dependencies are defined in a Static Product Type Architecture. If you have already defined a Static Product Type Architecture then simply link it here by clicking ADD. If not:-
2. Click Create and then:-
   1. Drag the Product Type boxes onto the diagram.
   2. Double click to add the Product Type details (don’t forget to give it a display label name).
   3. Add the dependencies by clicking and dragging from the Product Type that has a dependency on the other Product Type(s). This creates the ‘depends on’ relationship.
   4. Now double click on each arrow and complete the ‘Required Information’ field, to add the detail of what information is required in this relationship.