{ IFS 231 Business Analysis and the fundamentals of data modelling

Business Analysis - IFS 231 Lecturers: Caro Van Den Berg Johan Breytenbach Course information

Database Systems – Design, Implementation and Management Peter Rob et al. ISBN: Lecturing Notes You 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

Course outline Topic 1: What is Business Analysis? Topic 2: Business Cases and Functional Specification Topic 3: Business Analysis and Business Processes Topic 4: Input/Output Modelling for Information Systems Topic 5: Business Process Modelling for Information Systems Topic 6: Modelling Notations and Methodologies 18 March – 22 March Chapter 1: Database Concepts / Database systems / DBMS Chapter 2: Data Models Chapter 3: The Relational Database Model 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 Business Analyst Systems Analyst Systems Analyst Project Managers Project Managers Software Developers Software Developers Database administrators 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 process Business rules Business rules Translate rules into data model components Translate rules into data model components Design database model Design database model Is this the best possible model? Is this the best possible model? Introduction