Process Modelling

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Outlines

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1. Requirements Model (RQM)
2. Enterprise Architecture Model (EAM)
3. Business Process Model (BPM)
   1. Process Hierarchy Diagrams or Functional Decomposition Diagram
   2. Business Process Diagrams
      1. Top Level Diagrams - focuses on the roles played by business partners in relation to a system
      2. Choreography Diagrams - focuses on allocating responsibility for activities, choreographing objects, analyzing flows of data, and modeling the implementation of activities
      3. Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) - focuses on data exchange between processes
   3. Process Service Diagrams
   4. Simulations
4. Data Models
   1. Conceptual and Logical Diagrams: The data models in this chapter allow you to model the semantic and logical structure of your system.
   2. Physical Diagrams : A physical data diagram provides a graphical view of your database structure, and helps you analyze its tables (including their columns, indexes, and triggers), views, and procedures, and the references between them.
   3. Multidimensional Diagrams: A multidimensional data diagram provides a graphical view of your datamart or data warehouse database, and helps you identify its facts, cubes and dimensions.
5. Data Movement Model
6. Object-Oriented Model
7. XML Model