Semantic consistency use case

Standardize business entities

Create scoped, versioned contracts for customer, vendor, product, inventory, order, shipment, and customer-defined domain entities.

Select a business entity.

Customer

Active scenario

Customer

Provide governed customer identity, relationship, service, and engagement context across approved systems.

Result and contract

The stable contract: A versioned customer context schema with enterprise identifiers, selected attributes, relationships, provenance, and approved operations.; v1
What this enables: Reuse one governed customer context across channels.

Source systems

CRMERPSaaS applicationsDatabases

Consumers

Enterprise applicationsAI agents and copilotsAnalyticsWorkflows and automation

Product

Expose consistent product identity, attributes, hierarchy, pricing context, and availability references.

Result and contract

The stable contract: A versioned product schema with identifiers, hierarchy, selected attributes, commercial context, provenance, and related operations.; v1
What this enables: Give digital channels consistent product meaning.

Source systems

ERPSaaS applicationsDatabasesExisting APIs

Consumers

Enterprise applicationsMobile experiencesAnalyticsPartner ecosystems

Standardize the contract that delivers value, not every field in every system.

Canonical models establish shared meaning at useful domain boundaries while preserving source ownership, provenance, and material differences.