Please answer all questions from Arthur Langer\'s book - Guide to Software Devel
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Question
Please answer all questions from Arthur Langer's book - Guide to Software Development:
1. Explain the objectives of BPR.
2. How is BPR consistent with the object and client/server models.
3. What is a business area?
4. Explain the relationship between BPR and structured tools.
5. What is a CRUD diagram?
6. How should BPR be introduced to users and IT personnel?
7. What is the SDLC? Why is it called a waterfall approach?
8. Compare the SDLC with the OOLC.
9. What is the significance of the spiral approach and how does it support the development of reusable objects?
10. Describe the procedures to implement a pilot application. Why is this so important in BPR?
11. Describe the philosophy of reengineering an enterprise system.
12. What is the difference between a transaction database and a data warehouse?
Explanation / Answer
1) The main objective is to obtain quantum gains in the performance of the process. 2)Used to simplify the process and streamline.
3) To obtain dramatic improvement.
3.Business area: Business area is nothing but an Organizational unit that belongs to a specific business segment or area of. Financial Accounting is one of aspect assigned to business areas.
4.BPR has rapidly developed towards Information technology. Now a days all business organizations are looking through social sites and marketing through those sites and inreasing productivity.Re-engineering of business processes is only one aspect of the management.For this there is need too usage of many structured tools which makes target simple.
5. CRUD diagrams are simply used to describes which functions i.e Create, Read, Update and Delete should be done at each process.
7.SDLC is nothing but software development life cycle (SDLC). It is used in project management that describes the stages involved in an information system development project. As like in a waterfall model, each phase must be completed before the next phase. Hence it is also called as Water fall model.
12)The main difference is transaction Database is Relational Database with the normalised table, whereas DataWarehouse is with denormalised Table.
Transaction Database is OLTP but Datawarehouse ... is for OLAP.