These seven categories of enterprise objects, the common "dimensions" of any enterprise, have fixed relationships to each other. Every descendant object of these top-level categories/dimensions carries the same relationships as their parent objects. In building a DEM, we refine the specific relationships between descendant objects.

We can probably categorize every object of interest an enterprise into one of these object classes. The DEM holds a record of these objects, the specific relationships between them, their characteristics and behaviors, and their interactions. The DEM provides answers to the basic questions about each object.

The enterprise acts on objects according to these basic relationships. We record specific actions (transactions) on an object in the Activity (.05.) object class.

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