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elementary business operations
correspond to the
business rules that do not depend on business objects' states;
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extended business operations
, under the control of the
lifecycles of business objects, that therefore depend on the
states of business objects.
The design and implementation approach of these two
types of operation within the MDM system are not identical.
We will return, in the following chapter, to these differences.
8.2.1.2.
Pragmatic aspect
Definition: pragmatic aspect
The pragmatic aspect takes control of the modeling of
the organization in the form of use cases (interaction of
an actor with the system) and the processes or worklows
(interaction between the actors). The pragmatic aspect
equally describes information that concerns the
organization, like, for example, the data necessary for
the permissions management of IT systems, the
archiving of files, the printing systems, etc.
With regards to the MDM system, the pragmatic aspect
deals with the reference and master data modeling used in
the organization. These are the
administrative objects,
similar to business objects, but situated at an organizational
level.
The pragmatic aspect also provides use cases for the
query and update of data, as well as organizational
processes. The use cases express the organizational
constraints, particularly permissions management. The
processes form data approval workflows.
