Glossary

Semantic control at the point of creation

The principle that reuse precedes creation: before creating an entity, one must check whether the concept already exists.

The principle that reuse precedes creation: before creating an entity, one must check whether the concept already exists. A vocabulary is stabilized by protecting its point of entry, not by auditing it afterwards.

It is preventive, which is why it works. Cleaning duplicates afterwards is a recurring project that never ends; preventing their creation requires a control at the moment and a decision about who may create what.

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Business entity

An object, actor, event or transaction the organization needs to know about, manage or evaluate, such as Customer, Request, Contract or Payment.

Master data

Shared reference entities consumed by multiple processes and systems, such as customer, supplier or product.

Semantic coherence

The condition in which every area uses the same concept with the same meaning. Its absence produces automations that work technically and fail commercially, as when customer, user and third…