Party domain model

Party is the central entity in the Party Domain.

A unique party is stored only once in the CONTACT table. Party is subtyped into Person, which is stored in the PERSON table, and Organization, which is stored in the ORG table.

Clients are not expected to further subtype Party. Person names and Organization names are managed separately for both Organization and Person. Most other entities are related to the Party supertype and therefore they apply to both Organizations and Persons. See the following diagram:
A diagram illustrating a standard Party supertype structure.
A party has a relationship to other entities such as Address, Party Identification, Hierarchy, Grouping, Privacy Preference, LOB, Interaction, Campaign, Party Values, and other Parties. A role-based approach is taken when connecting to Party with Contract. See the following diagram:
A diagram illustrating a standard connection between Party and Contract.