From Data Modeling tools, reports can be easily generated for technical and business needs. The reports that have been generated from logical data model and physical data model are called as business reports and technical reports respectively. Most of the data modeling tools provide default reports like subject area reports, entity reports, attribute reports, table…
Data Modeling standardization has been in practice for many years and the following section highlight the needs and implementation of the data modeling standards. Standardization Needs | Modeling data: Several data modelers may work on the different subject areas of a data model and all data modelers should use the same naming convention, writing definitions…
Data Modeler Role: Data Modelers fall into two major categories of Logical or Physical Data Modelers depending upon the role they play in developing Logical or Physical data models. Based on organization needs, data modelers only do logical data modeling or physical data modeling or combination of both. Nowadays, organizations prefer to hire data modelers,…
Steps to create and maintain a new data model from business requirements: These are the general guidelines to create a standard data model and in real time, a data model may not be created in the same sequential manner as shown below. Based on the enterprise’s requirements, some of the steps may be excluded or…
Why to build or create a data model? To avoid redundancy of data in a OLTP database. In Data Warehousing, data from source systems can be transformed as per the rules and loaded into target tables. In Data Warehousing, you can do data profiling by cleaning the data from source systems and load that into…
What is a Data Model? A Data model is a conceptual representation of data structures (tables) required for a database and is very powerful in expressing and communicating the business requirements. Data Modeling Overview: A data model visually represents the nature of data, business rules governing the data, and how it will be organized in…
What is Procurement Business Process Outsourcing (Procurement BPO)? Procurement is either buying goods or acquisition of services or combination of both. In the following example: Company refers to: One who buys good or uses services from supplier. Supplier refers to: One who sells good or services. Vendor refers to: One who has necessary IT infrastructure…
What is Outsourcing/Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)? Most of the companies produce products or sell products or provide services to products. Companies, to get benefits, outsource to vendors/service providers. Example: A car manufacturer may outsource certain parts to produced by other vendors. A recruitment company may outsource sourcing resumes to vendors. A costumes manufacturing company may…
Business Activity Monitoring component is one of the features of BPM tool that provide monitoring, aggregation, analysis, measurement and presentation of business activity results to the executives or whoever needs to take better decisions. Most of the BPM tools provide necessary utilities to monitor the processes, but only some BPM tools project the high level…
An organization performs several business processes, route tasks of business processes to employees, systems, within an organization and across the organization (Business to Business transactions – B2B) to achieve it’s goals or objectives and most of the processes are handled manually in many cases. Manually maintained business processes very often result in errors, higher cost for…
