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Select SSADM completely and accurately describes all application deliverables so managers can significantly improve project plans and track real progress. Select SSADM also offers flexible facilities that encourage managers to customize the methodology to satisfy the demands of specific projects.

Select SSADM includes visual modeling tools and automatic documentation features, supporting the SSADM user-centered approach, so you can deliver applications that meet actual business needs. In addition, Select SSADM helps you formulate a clear understanding of business rules and documents the links between those business rules and your application, delivering flexible designs that can change with your business.

Select SSADM offers the power and flexibility you need to support application development projects using SSADM. Select SSADM completely supports the full range of structured techniques described in SSADM Practitioner Manual 4.2, including the following features and diagram types:

General Diagram, Structure and Text tools to support Business Activity Modeling, Business and Technical Systems Options and Work Practice Modeling.

Requirements Catalogue, Event Catalogue, Enquiry Catalogue and Data Catalogue

Data Flow Models, Logical Data Models, Update Process Models, Enquiry Process Models and Physical Data Models Menu Structures and I/O Structures

Function Definitions and Effect Correspondence Diagrams Entity Access Matrix and Enquiry Access Paths

Intelligent model transformation tools to support main SSADM techniques and perform key transformations automatically

Integrated modeling tools to hold analysis and design information in a common dictionary used to automatically link objects to all appropriate diagrams

Built-in consistency and completeness checks using SSADM rules to validate system models

Access to the open information repository through OLE automation, supporting custom applications and interfaces

Application Development Tools Blog
Do you know your business processes well enough to outsource them? 20 Mar 2009 \| 11:44 am If you read the Daily Telegraph you might have come across the Media Planet supplement “Sourcing” last Tuesday (March 17th); it had the strap line “Utilising sourcing as part of your business strategy”. Of course we are all pretty familiar with the now standard model of outsourcing, or off-shoring software development. There are numerous destinations for [...] Easing the ‘complexity’ of BPMN 2 Mar 2009 \| 3:30 am As a consultant with a business and systems modeling tool vendor, the conversations I have involving business analysts invariably seem to turn to the perceived complexity of the business process modeling notation (BPMN). It’s a topic which has had much coverage in the last year, following the publication of a research paper on BPMN usage by [...] Why? Identifying the purpose of business systems 27 Feb 2009 \| 8:09 am Those familiar with the Zachman framework will recognise the need for identifying the ‘Why?’, and certainly I’ve come across many projects where without a clear indicator of the business reasoning behind development of new systems, those systems have, not surprisingly, failed to fully meet the business needs. Identifying the business motivation behind a project is perhaps [...] One man’s goal is another man’s objective 25 Feb 2009 \| 7:37 am In my travels in recent weeks, talking to clients about the business motivation model, I’ve been struck by the number of folks who have welcomed the BMM simply because it provides a definition and context for business planning terms like goal and objective. While many have tried to communicate their business plan to a wider [...]

Application Development Tools Blog

Do you know your business processes well enough to outsource them? 20 Mar 2009 | 11:44 am
If you read the Daily Telegraph you might have come across the Media Planet supplement “Sourcing” last Tuesday (March 17th); it had the strap line “Utilising sourcing as part of your business strategy”. Of course we are all pretty familiar with the now standard model of outsourcing, or off-shoring software development. There are numerous destinations for [...]
Easing the ‘complexity’ of BPMN 2 Mar 2009 | 3:30 am
As a consultant with a business and systems modeling tool vendor, the conversations I have involving business analysts invariably seem to turn to the perceived complexity of the business process modeling notation (BPMN). It’s a topic which has had much coverage in the last year, following the publication of a research paper on BPMN usage by [...]
Why? Identifying the purpose of business systems 27 Feb 2009 | 8:09 am
Those familiar with the Zachman framework will recognise the need for identifying the ‘Why?’, and certainly I’ve come across many projects where without a clear indicator of the business reasoning behind development of new systems, those systems have, not surprisingly, failed to fully meet the business needs. Identifying the business motivation behind a project is perhaps [...]
One man’s goal is another man’s objective 25 Feb 2009 | 7:37 am
In my travels in recent weeks, talking to clients about the business motivation model, I’ve been struck by the number of folks who have welcomed the BMM simply because it provides a definition and context for business planning terms like goal and objective. While many have tried to communicate their business plan to a wider [...]

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