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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

By : Bill Aronson
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Open Text Metastorm ProVision 6.2 Strategy Implementation

By: Bill Aronson

Overview of this book

Open Text ProVision® (formerly known as Metastorm ProVision®) is an Enterprise Architecture (EA) solution allowing for effective planning and decision making throughout the enterprise. It enables an organization to have a central repository of information about the business, reducing organizational risks and better optimizing business resources. Implemented well, it enables better and more actionable decisions exactly when you need them.This book combines theory and practice to provide a step- by- step guide to building a successful customer- centric model of your business. The approach is simple and down to earth, and along the way, with various real-world examples, you will learn how to make a business case, use a framework, and adopt a methodology with Open Text ProVision®. This book draws on the experience of ProVision® experts around the world. By combining theory with practice from the field you can avoid common mistakes and develop a successful customer centric strategy for implementing ProVision®. Each chapter builds on the previous one to give you the confidence to implement a central repository, dealing with both the technical and human issues that you might face.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Open Text Metastorm ProVision® 6.2 Strategy Implementation
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Project #4—building Business Class models


Project #4 develops a Business Class model of the information that is created, read, updated, and deleted in the critical processes identified in Project #2.

ProVision® enables you to understand data at rest and in motion. For data at rest, the most common object to use is the business class, with further detail being added using attributes.

ProVision® defines a business class as "a class that is used as a template to express a business concept".

If required, a specific business class can be subtyped using a Subtype model. ProVision® defines a subtype as "a class, package, or interface whose definition is a refinement of the more general class, package, or interface (its super type). For example, "preferred customer" is a refinement of the more general class "customer." Therefore, "customer" is the super type, and "preferred customer" is the subtype."

A package is a container, or as ProVision® defines it, "a general purpose mechanism for organizing...