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Business rules are statement of fact concerning the business area or business process under study that must survive changes to process or data. Business rules are a constraint, in the sense that a business rule lays down what must or must not be the case

Business rules define what must be the case rather than how it comes to be.

Technical requirements are technical constraints or capabilities around business requirements (e.g. "claim reports must be sent via xml"). Technical Requirements include User Interface, Security, Performance, Quality and Backward Compatibility. As this is a process standard technical requirements are out of the scope of this document.

A business requirement is a statement of need concerning the business area or business process under study. It is something that the system must do or a quality that the system must have. A requirement exists either because the type of product demands certain functions or qualities, or the client wants the requirement to be part of the delivered product.

To keep consistent with the three major activities the following abbreviations are used in the number column for the Business Requirements.