Business Attributes Profile

Business Attributes Profile (Executives Sign off Suggested)

The Business Attributes Profile (Please check page 99 Table 6-5) is an important conceptualization of the real business and forms a core part of the conceptual security architecture. It appears in the first cell (What) of the second row of the SABSA® Matrix shown in Table 3- 3 in Chapter 3 and Figure 7-4 in Chapter 7.

The Business Attribute Profile is the complete set of Business Attributes that you believe represents your business, mapped to business drivers and business risks, and with a measurement approach for producing metrics and specific performance targets defined for each one (See page 99 Table 6-5).

This profile is a powerful tool that allows any unique business to be translated into common terminology and normalized. The profile selects only those Business Attributes that apply to this specific business (creating new attributes if there are found to be gaps). The taxonomy provides a checklist of possible attributes. The Business Analysts can decide whether or not a given attribute should be included in this specific profile. The senior executives will usually need to sign off on the __overall Business Attributes Profile.