Business Object

Business objects describe the data of a well-defined and outlined business area. Business objects are defined free of business functionality redundancies and therefore serve as the central basis for modeling and defining services at SAP. Business objects represent a set of entities with common characteristics and common behaviors, which in turn represent well-defined business semantics. Business objects are generally accepted in the business world.

For example, the business object Purchase Order is a request from a purchaser to an external supplier to deliver a specified quantity of goods, or perform a specified service, at a specified price, within a specified time.