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Enterprise Ontology

An enterprise ontology is a formal, machine-readable model of the concepts, entities, and relationships that define how an organisation operates, giving people and software a single shared vocabulary for strategy, capabilities, processes, data, and the connections between them.

An enterprise ontology sits above individual systems. Where a database schema describes one application, an ontology describes the business itself: what a capability is, how it relates to an outcome, which process it depends on. It captures meaning, not just structure.

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The value is consistency. When strategy, operations, and technology teams draw on the same defined concepts, they stop talking past each other. Recommendations become traceable, because every term resolves to a known entity with known relationships. An LLM without a governed model of the business guesses; grounded in one, its answers can be traced.

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