The fourth item, Maximum Metabase System use, causes a savings in the initial development of specifications and in the maximum re-use of already developed specifications for use in evolution and maintenance.
The Metabase System models provide context for the business information system so that it is seen within an overarching enterprise framework related to the six interrogatives of: who, what, when, where, why, and how. These and others are the work products of Information Technology and are considered to be the intellectual property of IT.
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