====== Definitions ======

===== Contract =====
The relationship between provider and consumer when an Offer is accepted by a consumer and an
instance of the Digital Product created.

===== Digital Product =====
A service, physical item, or digital item that provides an agreed and specific outcome for a consumer,
and that incorporates and requires software to realize that outcome.

===== Digital Product Backbone Data Object =====
A key data object in the IT4IT Reference Architecture that annotates an aspect of the Digital Product
model in its planning, development, consumable, or running state.

===== Functional Component =====
The smallest unit of technology that can stand on its own and be useful as a whole to a Digital
Practitioner (or IT organization)

===== Key Data Object =====
Data (records, information, and so on) that annotate or model an aspect of a Digital Product being
planned, developed, offered, or consumed.

===== Service Offer =====
Possible Service Contract terms as perceived by the potential consumer of a Digital Product Instance.

===== Service Offer Backbone Data Object =====
A key data object in the IT4IT Reference Architecture that controls and defines the consumption of a
Digital Product.

===== System =====
Technology components of a Digital Product Instance that will be managed by the provider.

===== System of Record =====
A synonym for a system that contains and/or controls authoritative source data.

===== Value Network =====
A construct that defines the relationships across the value-creating functions that deliver value.

===== Value Stream =====
The key value-creating activities for discrete areas within the Value Network where some unit of net
value is created or added to the Digital Product as it progresses through its lifecycle