The typical large organization has hundred of applications developed on incompatible data models. When one application defines customer as client, another as account, and a third as consumer, the ability to share information efficiently and integrate effectively is challenged. The Canonical Model addresses the issue of data consistency and business processes. By relating the common concepts in the Canonical Model to the vocabularies used by applications, igniteXML drives adoption by allowing developers to search the vocabulary in the model that matches the vocabulary used by applications. The result: a model that is easy to understand and use.