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Volume 33, Number 2, 1994
Database Technologies |
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DOI: 10.1147/sj.332.0239 |
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The Business Object Management System |
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by M. Schlatter, R. Furegati, F. Jeger, H. Schneider, and H. Streckeisen |
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The Business Object Management System (BOMS) is a distributed resource
manager that generalizes and extends the concepts of shared corporate
information to include not only data that are structured such that the
data can be held in relational tables but also generalized, complex
business information objects. BOMS allows enterprises to store,
manage, and query the totality of their documents, business transaction
records, images, etc., in a uniform and consistent way. With this
system, businesses can make more effective use of information that has
in the past been inaccessible to thorough and systematic queries and
that could not be integrated effectively into existing or new business
processes. BOMS is targeted toward very large collections of
information objects (on the order of a billion objects, equivalent to
terabytes of data) and allows enterprises to unlock information
treasures that would otherwise remain hidden in collections of
that size. BOMS is influenced by theoretical concepts, such as
object-orientation and hypermedia, but relies on proven relational
database and transaction processing concepts. BOMS has been
implemented with DATABASE 2* (DB2*) and Customer Information
Control System/Enterprise Systems Architecture (CICS/ESA*) and has
been in productive use since 1991.
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*Trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
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