Relationship Vocabulary

OpenEA Community 1.5.2 seeds 25 governed relationship types. A relationship is valid only for the source/target combinations listed below. Inverse labels are display semantics; OpenEA stores one relationship row rather than a duplicate inverse row.

Key	Forward label	Inverse label	Valid source → target
requires	requires	required by	Business Product → Business Capability
realizes	realizes	realized by	Business Process → Business Capability
owns	owns	owned by	Organization → Business Product Organization → Business Capability Organization → Application
performs	performs	performed by	Organization → Business Process
participates_in	participates in	has participant	Role → Business Process
accountable_for	accountable for	accountable role/organization	Role → Business Capability Role → Application Organization → Data Object
supports	supports	supported by	Application → Business Capability Application → Business Process Application Service → Business Process
provides	provides	provided by	Application → Application Service
depends_on	depends on	depended on by	Application → Application Technology → Technology Initiative / Project → Initiative / Project
integrates_with	integrates with	integrates with	Application → Application
creates	creates	created by	Application → Data Object
reads	reads	read by	Application → Data Object
updates	updates	updated by	Application → Data Object
system_of_record_for	system of record for	system of record	Application → Data Object
uses	uses	used by	Business Process → Data Object Application → Technology Application Service → Technology
standardizes	standardizes	standardized by	Organization → Technology
changes	changes	changed by	Initiative / Project → Application Initiative / Project → Business Process
introduces	introduces	introduced by	Initiative / Project → Application Initiative / Project → Technology
retires	retires	retired by	Initiative / Project → Application Initiative / Project → Technology
improves	improves	improved by	Initiative / Project → Business Capability
conforms_to	conforms to	conformed to by	Architecture Decision → Architecture Principle Application → Architecture Principle Technology → Architecture Principle
deviates_from	deviates from	deviated from by	Architecture Decision → Architecture Principle Application → Architecture Principle
affects	affects	affected by	Architecture Decision → Application Architecture Decision → Technology Architecture Decision → Business Capability Architecture Decision → Initiative / Project
selects	selects	selected by	Architecture Decision → Technology
supersedes	supersedes	superseded by	Architecture Decision → Architecture Decision

Relationship-specific properties

Most relationship types use the common relationship metadata only. integrates_with also defines governed properties:

• Integration type
• Protocol
• Direction
• Criticality
• Description
• Data exchanged

Common relationship metadata

• Description
• Criticality
• Confidence
• Valid From / Valid Until
• Source
• Created / Updated timestamps
• Archived state