(1) A set of attributes that represent a business entity (such as Employee), an action on the data (such as a create or update operation), and instructions for processing the data. Components of the business integration system use business objects to exchange information and trigger actions. See also data object, business item, Service Data Objects, business graph, private business object.
(2) A specification type of the autonomic computing architecture that defines an aggregation of data segments. This type of specification describes information commonly exchanged among applications.