Computer Science 1032A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Business Process Model And Notation, Business Process Management, Executive Information System

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1032A/B
• Professor: Diane Goldstein

Document Summary

Chapter 2 notes: business processes, information, and decision making. Business process: network of activities, resources, facilities, and information that interact to achieve business objective: activities: transforms resources and information of one type into resources and information of another type. Can be manual (people following procedures) or automated (hardware directed by software) Ex: quantity received (info) and shipping invoice (info) transform into payment to supplier (resource: resources: items of value. External to organization; does not have to be a part of the corporation or activities. Ex: workers, customers, and suppliers: facilities: structures used within the business process. Information: knowledge derived from data (recorded facts and figures) Activities use information to determine how to transform inputs received to outputs for production. Business process modeling notation (bpmn: developed by omg as a standard set of terms and graphical notations for documenting business processes. Data: recorded facts or figures that are not meaningful on their own.