The Product viewpoint depicts the value these products offer to the customers or other external parties involved and shows the composition of one or more products in terms of the constituting (business or application) services, and the associated contract(s) or other agreements. It may also be used to show the interfaces through which this product is offered. A Product viewpoint is typically used in product development to design a product by composing existing services or by identifying which new services have to be created for this product, given the value a customer expects from it. It may then serve as input for business process architects and others that need to design the processes and ICT realizing these products.

A Business Interface declares how a business role can connect with its environment

A Business Role is defined as a named specific behavior of a Business Actor participating in a particular contex

A Business Actor is defined as an organizational entity capable of (actively) performing behavior.

A Business process is defined as a unit of internal behavior or collection of causally-related units of internal behavior intended to produce a defined set of products and services.

A Business service is defined as the externally visible (“logical”) functionality, which is meaningful to the environment and is realized by business behavior (business process, business function, or business interaction).

An Application Service is defined as the externally visible (“logical”) functionality, which is meaningful to the environment and is realized by business behavior (Business Process, Business Function, or Business Interaction)

An Application Interface declares how a component can connect with its environment.

An Application Component is defined as a modular, deployable, and replaceable part of a system that encapsulates its contents and exposes its functionality through a set of interfaces.