Chapter 11

Instructor's Guide

1. Business objects give access to corporate data. For the end-user, flexibility in manipulating these data is what counts. For management, business objects may provide a handle to define business processes that make optimal use of IT resources.
2. The SanFrancisco framework gives development companies the foundation for developing added-value products. It is meant to be a reusable framework of business process and business object components, that provides a generic solution for the realization of (IT support for) business processes.
3. See slide sf-layers.
4. Logistics-based modeling is concerned with quantitative aspects of business processes, such as throughput and workload. Discrete event simulation provides the tools to model such aspects.
5. The request for loans process, discussed in section Loans, is such an example.
6. See slide sim-classes.
7. As requirements we may mention support for interaction, support for multiple views, and powerful modeling or visualization primitives. See slide in3d-arch for an example architecture.
8. One of the issues to decide upon is whether a two-tier or three-tier architecture is chosen. Another issue is how to make the legacy information available, and how to incorporate additional business logic in (for example middle-tier) objects. For actual solutions, see section Legacy.