IFS 231 Business Analysis and the fundamentals of

IFS 231 { Business Analysis and the fundamentals of data modelling

Business Analysis - IFS 231 Lecturers: Caro Van Den Berg Johan Breytenbach Email: ifsuwc@gmail. com Course information

Database Systems – Design, Implementation and Management Peter Rob et al. ISBN: 978 184480 7321 Lecturing Notes You don’t have to buy this book! Textbook information

Expectations 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Cellphones off or on silent while in class One speaker at a time during discussions Respect each person in this class Let’s behave and communicate like adults We can all learn from each other – no stupid questions You lead your own learning process Concerted effort to publish marks at the earliest date Team members held accountable for contributions Everyone expected to come prepared for classes

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)

Course outcomes 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.

Introduction - careers Business Analyst Systems Analyst Project Managers Software Developers Database administrators

Introduction 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?