Avoid business terms in your physical datamodel (opens in new tab)

Why is it a bad idea to go directly from business terms to data entities in our IT-systems?First of all, you make your model extremely dependent upon your existing application, making transformations much harder.If you need integrations to other applications, or external parties, then you have a problem as their terms differ.Business terms lack normalization, which result in inconsistency in the stored data.Input and output in processes are often described as information entities. Not the act...