5 Working with Conceptual Models

Conceptual models are high-level, abstract representations of service domains. They define the relationships between your commercial products, the services that they represent, the resources that are required to implement the services, and the actions that must be performed in a run-time environment to fulfill a service order request.

Conceptual models define how commercial products and technical services are related, and they enable you to associate the products that you sell with the technical services and resources that are required to fulfill orders.

Conceptual models include entities that represent components of a service (such as customer facing services, resource facing services, products, resources, and so forth), but that contain no application-specific information.

See Design Studio Concepts for more information.

When working with conceptual models, see the following topics:

• About Conceptual Model Entities

• Implementing Conceptual Models

• Designing Conceptual Models

• Realizing Conceptual Model Entities into Application Entities

• Synchronizing Conceptual Model Entities with Application Entities

• Conceptual Model Editors