Conceptual Data Modelling: Start With Business Use Cases
A business analysis approach to data modelling
Successful business analysis requires understanding of business. One of the essential tools for understanding a business is a conceptual data model.
Even though conceptual models are relatively easy to understand and create, business analysts do not use them enough.
This article will discuss how to use the information in a use case diagrams to create a conceptual data model.
Definition
A conceptual data model is a structured business view of the data required to support business processes, record business events, and track related performance measures.
Conceptual models establish business knowledge and name key business entities and relationships between them.
They enforce consistent business terminology and identify the concepts that exist independent of any technology implementations.
Challenge
One of the challenges that business analysts and architects face in creating conceptual models is that business stakeholders do not want to spend time…
