The ontology
A business model of objects, relationships and rules.
Business concepts and instances
Customer, Order, Product, Material and Supplier are business concepts. A specific customer or purchase order is an instance of a concept. Relationships give those objects business meaning.
- Customer — places
- Order — contains
- Product — uses
- Material — supplied by
- Supplier
Source schema versus business meaning
A source may call a customer cust_no, acct_id, bill_to or buyer_code. A business ontology describes the concept Customer while retaining how each source represents it. Different field names alone do not prove that the records have the same meaning.
Source representation Business concept
ERP.bill_to Customer
CRM.AccountId Customer
Order.customer_code Order → belongs to → CustomerRules belong to the model
A Purchase Order can be governed by a Procurement Policy. That relationship would let the context runtime retrieve the relevant policy alongside the order, rather than treating the documents as unrelated text.
Current representation
The canvas currently represents source categories from the selected task template. It is not a persisted ontology of individual business objects. Sources and results persist; automated concept discovery and entity-level relationship storage do not.