Structure of business process flows. Business process flows consist of a series of stages, each containing a number of steps. Only one stage is the active stage. When the required steps in each stage are complete, the process can move on to the next stage and it becomes the active stage.
Datum is, from its Latin origin, a singular form of data, and may refer to a single item of data. 1 Singular data point.
The data set lists values for each of the variables, such as height and weight of an object, for each member of the data set. Each value is known as a datum. The data set may comprise data for one or more members, corresponding to the number of rows. The term data set may also be used more loosely, to refer to the data in a collection of closely related tables, corresponding to a particular experiment or event. An example of this type is the data sets collected by space agencies performing experiments with instruments aboard space probes.