BACM11 — No relationship between ProductOffering and Customer

The ability to associate products with customers is important. In the current metamodel, this connection can only be made by joining a customer targeted by a value proposition with a product offering where the value proposition is of the product offering. Should the metamodel include a direct relationship between product offering and customer? Should this relationship be a shortcut?

The resolution is too complicated for this RTF

The proposal to replace the two binary shortcuts with a ternary (Customer, ProductOffering, ValueProposition) requires a substantial extension of the shortcut path syntax and a reworking of the transformation code that checks the path specification and generates the OCL. This RTF is closing in less than 60 days and there is not time to develop the algorithms and test them. Consequently, the issue is deferred.