Hi David,
<<1. What is the best CASE tool for Business Modeling?>> What aspects of the business are being modeling and why? Who will assume ownership over the business model - business or IT? <<2. What would be possible problems/risks with the choice of Rose by Rational as a tool for Business Modeling?>> I'm sure most agree that Rose by itself is not sufficient. For example, a glossary of terms specific to the business is one of the most important artifacts of any business analysis effort. ReqPro rather than Rose fits the bill when it comes to handling text-related aspects of the business analysis. Its ability to trace one thing to another is especially important. So from a Rational-only perspective Analyst Studio provides a more rounded solution than Rose does on its own for business modeling. However before discussion of business modeling tools can really proceed, the approach taken to modeling business must be carefully considered. Object-orientation is great, but business rules need to be modeled and managed separately. This paves the way for many of the rules to be executed by a rules engine (program code generated from the rule specifications). Here's an example of what I mean: http://www.corticon.com/html/so_platform.html In a nutshell, business analysts can use tools to help them enter well-formed rules into a repository. The automation here has to do with the formation of rule statements, ensuring consistency between rules, tracing and so on. This is the automation of rule specification activities in other words. Business naturally owns this model, since it is expressed in terms they already understand. IT owns the models that handle the implementation of the rules, be they object-models, relational database designs etc. Regards, -Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyalin, David S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Baynes, Steve'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Bennett Simon'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Richard Howlett'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Les Munday'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Eric D. Tarkington'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'eleadsolutions'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Romuald Restout'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Charles Edwards'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 9:28 AM Subject: RE: (ROSE) UML and Business Rules > > I am re-submitting another posting that did not show up on the forum. Thank > you. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lyalin, David S. > Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 10:10 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Cc: Lyalin, David S. > Subject: Business Modeling with Rational Rose > > > These are some points from the recent discussion with my clients regarding > CASE tools for Business Modeling. > > 1. What is the best CASE tool for Business Modeling? > The brief version of my answer - today it is Rose by Rational Corp. because: > a) Tool is established well in a modeling community and it has largest > market share. Good chance that the company will be around for a "reasonable" > time length. > b) Same tool can be used for software development and for business modeling > c) Rose is UML-oriented and, again, the same standard could be use > throughout the software development and business modeling > > 2. What would be possible problems/risks with the choice of Rose by Rational > as a tool for Business Modeling? > My impression is: > a) Rational has no defined strategy on the subject: it does not look like > Rational Corp. positioning its Rose modeling tool for Business Modeling. All > public statements from Rational regarding Business Modeling are very vague. > > b) Major efforts with Rose development are directed towards enhancing > design-related and code generation tasks at the expense of analysis-related > tasks. On practice it means that product lacks features that are important > for Business Modeling (as example, obvious deficiencies with the visual > aspects of diagrams). > > Still, it would be logical to use Rose for the Business Modeling today - for > reasons stated in section 1. The concern is that without defined strategy > and focused efforts from Rational, role of the Rose as a Business Modeling > tool could diminish dramatically. > > Your comments and opinions would be appreciated. > > David Lyalin > ************************************************************************ > * Rose Forum is a public venue for ideas and discussions. > * For technical support, visit http://www.rational.com/support > * > * Post or Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * Subscription Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * Archive of messages: > * http://www.rational.com/support/usergroups/rose/rose_forum.jsp > * Other Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * > * To unsubscribe from the list, please send email > * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * Subject: <BLANK> > * Body: unsubscribe rose_forum > ************************************************************************* > > ************************************************************************ * Rose Forum is a public venue for ideas and discussions. * For technical support, visit http://www.rational.com/support * * Post or Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subscription Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Archive of messages: * http://www.rational.com/support/usergroups/rose/rose_forum.jsp * Other Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To unsubscribe from the list, please send email * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subject: <BLANK> * Body: unsubscribe rose_forum *************************************************************************
