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Overview of Common Data Model | Microsoft Docs |
Overview of Common Data Model. |
msftman |
v-iap |
article |
03/13/2020 |
Deonhe |
The term Common Data Model describes at least five related capabilities or ideas:
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A way to describe the location and shape of data records that are stored in files. |
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A collection of reference entities that have been published on GitHub to represent the most common shapes of data that customers may find in the business application ecosystem. | The collection includes:
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The metadata used to describe the logical concepts, compositions, and semantic meanings for, and relationships between, standard published entities or a customer's private standards or ad-hoc compositions. | The metadata includes:
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An object model library. | The object library:
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The ecosystem of applications and services. | The ecosystem makes use of some or all of the four capabilities to help app developers work cooperatively on standardized entity shapes or share metadata. |
- Common Data Model fundamentals
- Common Data Model logical definitions