The Business Architecture Core Metamodel defines concepts suitable for modeling business concepts found to be useful in business direction and strategy and not found in business operating models. These concepts include value and its delivery to stakeholders of a business, capability, abstract org anization, process, product and strategy. The concepts are represented at a high level typical of executive management and staffs who are responsible for overall business management and direction.

Business architecture models derived from this metamodel are not intended to represent all aspects of a business; they are intended to be used in conjunction with other models, with the ensemble of models being a sufficient basis for strategic and business analysis and planning. While the business architecture models are high level, they must be grounded in the reality and details of the business. For this reason, an ability to align or link elements or groups of elements of a business architecture model with elements and groups of elements of other models or even portions of prose documents or business data is a strong requirement.

The OMG has produced or is working on specifications for other business models, but the business architect will need to include models not based on any OMG specification. This specification defines a general mechanism for linking a BACM-derived model to other models and

data sources. These mechanisms respond to the RFP request for a “touchpoint” mechanism.