What is 'Data Model'?

·              It is a model that documents and organizes the business data for communication between the team members. Hence, is used as a plan to develop business applications.

·              Explicitly determines the structure of data or structured data.

·              Applications of data model are:

o   Database models (i.e. how data shall be stored, organized and manipulated in the database system).

o   Information’s systems

o   Enables exchange of data

·              Communication and precision (i.e. accuracy) are two benefits which come with data model.

·              A data model can be referred to as data structure in context of programming languages and many enterprises do so.