{IFS 231

Business Analysisand the fundamentals of data modelling

Business Analysis - IFS 231Lecturers: Caro Van Den Berg

Johan Breytenbach

Email: ifsuwc@gmail.com

Course information

Database Systems – Design, Implementation and ManagementPeter Rob et al.ISBN: 978 184480 7321

Lecturing NotesYou don’t have to buy this book!Textbook information

1.Cellphones off or on silent while in class

2.One speaker at a time during discussions

3.Respect each person in this class

4.Let’s behave and communicate like adults

5.We can all learn from each other – no stupid questions

6.You lead your own learning process

7.Concerted effort to publish marks at the earliest date

8.Team members held accountable for contributions

9.Everyone expected to come prepared for classes

10.All ‘latecomers’ enter from back of lecture theatre

Expectations

Course outlineTopic 1: What is Business Analysis? Topic 2: Business Cases and Functional SpecificationTopic 3: Business Analysis and Business ProcessesTopic 4: Input/Output Modelling for Information SystemsTopic 5: Business Process Modelling for Information SystemsTopic 6: Modelling Notations and MethodologiesTopic 6: Modelling Notations and Methodologies18 March – 22 MarchChapter 1: Database Concepts / Database systems / DBMSChapter 2: Data Models Chapter 3: The Relational Database ModelChapter 5: Entity-Relationship (ER) ModellingChapter 5: Entity-Relationship (ER) Modelling

Chapter 5: Entity-Relationship (ER) Modelling

Chapter 8: Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL)

An understanding of the basic components of a business process model including activities, data flows, data stores, material flows, material stores, and external entities.

The ability to develop business process models from written evidence and from interviews.

The capacity to critically appraise a business process model for completeness and accuracy (best possible solution?).

Course outcomes

An understanding of the basic components of data and entity relationship models including entities, associative entities, relationships and data specification.

The ability to develop data and entity models from written evidence and from interviews.

An understanding of normalization The capacity to critically appraise a

data or entity relationship model for completeness and accuracy.

Course outcomes

Business Analyst Systems Analyst Project Managers Software Developers Database administrators

Introduction - careers

IFS 231 – BA and SA Focus on the role of database design within BP (re-)engineering

Introduction

Q: Why is data modelling (database design) important?Q: Why must a business analyst know the fundamentals of data modelling?

Introduction

A) Business processes require information (data) and functionality (activities, data flows, data stores, material flows, material stores, and external entities. )…

Introduction

…Information (reports and queries) and functions (activities) are dependant [fully reliant] on the quality of the data model (database design)

Introduction

IFS 231• Business process• Business rules• Translate rules into data model components

• Design database model• Is this the best possible model?

Introduction