+1 John. Pretty much anything completely canonical is doomed to failure. I would say that some of the concepts in Microsoft Motion could be described as canonical in that they are consistent across multiple businesses within a given sector, and SAP works because an Invoice is an Invoice and general ledger is general ledger, but trying to formalise these all the way across businesses is not smart and in paticular not if you try and make implementation irrelevant.
Steve On 14/06/07, John Evdemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gervas Douglas forwarded: > > The answer is a canonical business model, defined as an information > model that represents the inherent business concepts without regard to > either individual use or hardware or software implementation. Here we go again (UBL anyone?). This seems incredibly naïve to me. EDIFACT metadata may be the closest we've come to a "universal" set of cross-industry semantics (despite the fact that its extended and changed by most of the organizations using it). John Evdemon Microsoft
