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Overall in the 1990s Business Reference Models were hardly an item. For example jJust one 1991 book about [[IT management]] mentioned that Kodak management had developed a business reference model 10 years earlier.<ref>Gerard H. Gaynor (1991). ''Achieving the Competitive Edge Through Integrated Technology Management''. p. 259.</ref>. And a 1996 manual of the [[SAP R/3]] enterprise resource planning software stipulated the existence on the business reference model of the R/3 System.<ref>Rüdiger Buck-Emden, Jurgen Galimow, SAP AG. (1996). ''SAP R/3 System: A Client/server Technology'' Addison-Wesley.</ref> In the new millennium Business Reference Models started emerging in a several fields from [[Network management system]]s.<ref>Joan Serrat, Alex Galis (2003). ''Deploying and Managing IP Over WDM Networks''. pp. 89-121.</ref>, [[E-business]]<ref name="MA00"> Daniel A. Menascé, Virgilio A. F. Almeida (2000). ''Scaling for E-business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning.'' Prentice Hall. ISBN 0130863289</ref>, and in the US Federal government. The US government published it's "Business Reference Model", Version 1.0 in February 2002.<ref>Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office (2002). ''The Business Reference Model, Version 1.0''.</ref>

== Types of Businessbusiness Referencereference Modelsmodels ==

=== For Electronic Businessesbusinesses ===

In 2000 Menascé and Almeida<ref name="MA00"/> presented one of the first Reference Models for Electronic Business. The presented a reference model mentmeant to provide a basis for defining conceptual activities in the electronic business and for identifying improvement opportunities. This reference model ranged from:

* on top a business view on the nature of the business and the processes that provide the services offered by the electronic business site, to

* on the bottumbottom, a technological view on the way customers technically interact with the site.

From top to bottumbottom it defined a series of four models from the [[business model]], the [[functional model]], the [[customer model]], to an [[resource model]].<ref name="MA00"/>

=== For Federal Governmentgovernment ===

[[Image:FEA BRM Hierachy.JPG|thumb|320px|Other view on the [[Federal Enterprise Architecture|FEA]] Business reference model.<ref>US DOI (2007) [http://www.doi.gov/ocio/architecture/mbt/step3.htm Analyze the Business and Define the Target Business Environment]. Sept 2007.</ref>]]

The US Federal Government has defined a [[Federal Enterprise Architecture]] structures of the five FEA reference models<ref name="WH05"/>:

* [[Performance Reference Model]] (PRM)

* [[''Business Reference Model]]'' (BRM)

* [[Service Component Reference Model]] (SRM)

* [[Technical Reference Model]] (TRM)