Business Components provide a natural way to depict
everyday business transactions such as customer profiles,
products, inventory, order taking, etc. For example, a rental
car company like Hertz may have a computer system based
on business components where each car in their inventory or
special Hertz #1 Gold Members are all represented by
business components that can interact with each other.
Creating entire systems of business components is a new area
within object-oriented computing. Petter Herzum and Oliver
Sims along with the Object Management Group (OMG) are
leading the research in this area.