A Business Scope is used to identify the subset of the Business Core Vocabulary that supports a particular business issue, project area or business function.

Business Scopes are expressed as a category that includes a number of term references. Business Core Vocabulary terms are only ever referenced by a Business Scope and a Business Scope never owns any terms. A Business Scope can include terms from across different Business Core Vocabulary subcategories.

Users can create their own Business Scopes to support their project requirements. For example, several Business Scopes can be created in the course of a project, each capturing data items added in a particular phase of the project. Business Scopes can also be used to capture the required content of a report or the total coverage of a source system model as mapped into the Business Core Vocabulary.

Within the Business Scopes, an additional set of Alignment Scopes has been provided, which group together sets of Business Core Vocabulary and Business Performance Indicator terms of relevance to a particular Industry Alignment Vocabulary topic. These may also be used as a project scoping mechanism for a specific standard or regulation in the various areas of Industry Alignment Vocabularies previously listed.

The Knowledge Accelerators also include Business Scopes that are available for separate import and represent subsets of the full Knowledge Accelerator content.