What are Business Objects and what is Business Logic?

Question

When reading, I keep seeing references to what they call Business Objects. I\'ve looked up on Wikipedia and such but I keep not getting what a Business Ob

Answer 1

A definition of a business object is difficult to get on the search engine as it will tell you that Business Objects is a company acquired by SAP. But that is not what most people look for.

A business object is the the encapsulation of business logic model a business scenario.

For eg: In procurement domain : there is a whole list of activities that need to be performed. From Spend Analysis to Requesting of Information for the products to Generating the contract for the negotiated term. So in this particular scenario , a document like RFI (Request for information ) can be considered to be a instance of a RFI Business Object (It will have all the logic related to process like validation etc).