abstract, formal representation of many kinds of real-world objects, e.g. business documents, orders, transportation mechanisms, e.g. trucks, containers, ship bays, and/or abstract objects, e.g. for the entities used in a billing system

NOTE 1 to entry The objects have a name, properties and relationships to other objects. An information model provides a means to describe the information in a domain of interest without constraining how that description is mapped to an actual implementation in software.