Modeling

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Creating and Using Production Ready Scripts for Automating Manual Processes in PowerDesigner
Audience Job Function: DBA, System Analyst, Other: Data Analyst, Data Modeler
Session Duration: 90 minutes
Learning Points You Will Take Away from this Class:
- Produce enterprise production scripts for use in PowerDesigner
- Customize parts of PowerDesigner or automate manual tasks to make their PowerDesigner users more productive
- Apply example scripts to thier own enviornment, and begin automating tasks right out of the box
This presentation will discuss how to produce enterprise production scripts for use in PowerDesigner. This presentation is for intermediate or entry-level PowerDesigner users who are interested in customizing parts of PowerDesigner or automating manual tasks to make their PowerDesigner users more productive. This presentation could be used in either the 60 or 90 minute session as there is approximately 45-60 minutes of material allowing time for questions and walk-through of examples if there are no questions. Attendees with will leave the session knowing how to successfully implement scripts in their environment and have several examples. Points that will be covered: 1. Background 2. Uses of scripts Automation of Tasks 3. Creating Scripts Extensible and Expandable Error Handling Generalization of Scripts 4. Consideration for effective use of scripts 5. Use of Dialog Boxes 6. Distributing knowledge of scripts 7. Examples provided for immediate productivity

Defining Service Contracts from Business Architecture: A Pre-Requisite for buy/build Decisions
Audience Job Function: Application Developer, DBA, System Analyst, Object Administrator, IS/IT Management, Corporate Management, Other: IT Architect
Session Duration: 90 minutes
Learning Points You Will Take Away from this Class:
- See the real meaning of terms like re-usability, trace-ability, transformation, and baseline brought to life
- Gain a greater understanding of the power of Enterprise Architecture to support organizational effectiveness and change management
- Learn valuable techniques for the customization and use of Case tools to support architecture that meets the needs of projects, while maintaining an enterprise context
A demonstration of business architecture done with the Ministry of Labour's Occupational Health & Safety Program, including a proof of concept for a modernized application to support Inspectors who perform inspections and investigate incidents related to health and safety in workplaces across Ontario. The presentation will " Illustrate traceability and alignment between business processes, rules, and data, roles and accountabilities as well as the dimensions of time and location, " Show how the business and data models were used to transform from business requirements to a deployed solution using a proof of concept, " Reinforce the importance and value of a re-usable enterprise baseline, i.e. a documented business architecture that can be re-used for future projects in this program area, which would reduce the work effort required to meet architecture guidelines and allow quicker development of solutions, and " Demonstrate the power of case tools to support the efficient and effective use of Enterprise Architecture.

Modeling Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture by Example
Audience Job Function: DBA, System Analyst, Consultant, IS/IT Management
Session Duration: 60 minutes
Learning Points You Will Take Away from this Class:
- How to use PowerDesigner to Model SOA
As services orientation presents an ideal vision of a world, more and more enterprises are adopting service paradigm to structure the enterprise in terms of Services. They try to use some existing modeling disciplines such as OOAD and BPM to craft Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture (SOEA) with quality. However these disciplines can only cover part of the requirements. Problems still exist, such as enabling existing applications, supporting various development process directions and better reusing services and processes. An all-sided, structural approach or analysis and design method is required. PowerDesigner provide a practical solution for this, which delivers a quality approach for modeling SOEA with most of the aforementioned issues well resolved. In this session, we will shortly introduce service oriented, SOEA, and the challenges they brings to analysis and design. Then we will address the practical solution provided by PowerDesigner about how it helps user to achieve quality enterprise architecture with series of well-designed operations, services and processes.

Platform Independent Modelling domain, from business process to implementation
Audience Job Function: Application Developer, System Analyst
Session Duration: 60 minutes
Learning Points You Will Take Away from this Class:
- See how PIM modells contributes to doing the right thing and with good quality
- See how different modelling aspects fit together and contributes to each other
- See how modelling support anatomy planning, agile implementation, testing and reuse
Platform Independent Modelling provides an opportunity not only to model services and allocate them to systems but also to introduce characteristics into the models allowing simulations and even traffic modelling ultimately indicating dimensioning of the resulting network for different configurations of the systems. As bonuses industrialised information (services), significantly increased quality of code and ability for model driven test was achieved. Consistency checking, simulation of the models logic and behaviour contributes to less faults and better performance. As an unexpected but welcomed bonus the approach allowed to give the agile teams their independence without jeopardising the consistency and sanity of large and complex systems. There is no key available when modelling today, only somewhere in the range from 'good' to 'poor'. This approach will make the analyst more confident that the result is on the 'good' side of the scale.

Process and Data Alignment - A Model Approach with PowerDesigner
Audience Job Function: DBA, System Analyst, Consultant, IS/IT Management
Session Duration: 60 minutes
Learning Points You Will Take Away from this Class:
- understand the differences between Process and Conceptual Data
- Align Process to Conceptual Data
- trace Conceptual Data to Physical Data, and Physical Data transformation for complete traceability
In this session we will explore the difference between the Process view of Data and the Conceptual Data Model, with comparisons to XML and Canonical Data Models. We will also explore how to align process data to Conceptual Data Models using PowerDesigner and to trace the concept of data models to physical model implementation representations. Finally, we will show how the physical models interrelate to provide complete heritage and traceability of all aspects of the information architecture from business process view through to warehouse, subscription or federation instances.

Succeeding with PowerDesigner in object oriented modeling of business processes and system processes
Audience Job Function: Application Developer, System Analyst, Consultant, IS/IT Management
Session Duration: 60 minutes
Learning Points You Will Take Away from this Class:
- Understand how PowerDesigner is used in a model-driven approach for modeling requirements, business processes and system processes
- Show how traceability is supported by linking these models
- Understand how the system analysts are supported to produce high quality models by adding quality checks via XEM
UML and PowerDesigner provide a variety of concepts, diagram types and notation elements. Thus any software engineering project is first confronted with deciding which elements comply best with the project's requirements. Furthermore one has to define how these elements should be organized to form a valid model which is easily traceable and supports each activity of the project's process model. The presentation will show how PowerDesigner fulfils these needs in a model-driven approach to graphically analyze and describe a system under development. The main focus is on requirement management and analysis. Both the basic methodical concept and the enhancements plus the implementation in PD are presented and demonstrated.