Purpose - This introductory workshop provides participants with hands-on
experience using Visible Advantage, our integrated enterprise information architecture and
component modeling tool set. The workshop includes an overview of the concepts and
techniques of Enterprise Engineering along with practical exercises that allow
participants to use every one of the powerful Visible Advantage tools. Participants will
become familiar with strategic planning, data modeling, process modeling, system design,
and system implementation capabilities of Visible Advantage.
Preparation - No previous experience using CASE or other application development
and modeling tools is required. Full life cycle software engineering skills are mandatory.
Participants - This workshop is open to anyone interested in using Visible
Advantage effectively.
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Activities
Participants will learn how Visible Advantage supports:
• Business and Systems Planning
• Enterprise Information Architecture Development
• Enterprise Client/Server Management
• Data Warehouse Development
• Quality Rapid Application Development
• Software Object Development and Management
• Commercial Product and Service Evaluation and Integration
• Business and System Requirements Traceability
Participants will use Visible Advantage to
automate:
• Strategic Business Planning
• Data Modeling
• Process Modeling
• System Design
• System Implementation in Various Environments
• Quality Assurance
• Reverse and Reengineering
Course Outline
Strategic Business Planning:
• Creating and capturing strategic and performance planning
elements
• Organizing planning elements for single and
multiple-level plans
Data Modeling:
• Building data models
• Linking data model elements with planning elements
• Performing and documenting multi-dimensional CRUD analysis
• Using cluster analysis for application
design and process improvement
Process Modeling:
• Modeling business events
• Modeling business data processes
• Generating and modeling data access processes
• Reviewing process hierarchy
• Reviewing data/process matrix
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Database Design:
• Forward Engineering -- creating designs
from the data model
• Reverse Engineering -- importing designs
from existing systems
System Implementation:
• Generating schema's for multiple RDBMS
and file managers
• Using interfaces with other tools
Quality Assurance:
• Performing contextual and technical
model analysis
• Using automated QA features of Visible
Advantage
Project Control and Model Management:
• Managing multiple projects
• Defining users, user groups, and access controls
• Creating and managing model views
• Using sessions for project management
• Creating, comparing and merging models
• Implementing security and version control
practices
Project Reporting:
• Visible Advantage Reports
• Visible Advantage Documents
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