Princeton ACM / IEEE Computer Society Meeting

PRINCETON ACM / IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAPTERS
NOVEMBER 1996 JOINT MEETING
The Nuts and Bolts of Business Object Modeling

Brian Berenbach

Object Technology has increased in popularity recently, partially because of its use in the business community for process re-engineering. It has also gained favor with software architects as a paradigm for designing multi-tiered client server architectures. This seminar will review the latest techniques in business object modeling using real- world examples from re-engineering and design projects, including Jacobson Use cases, Scenario diagrams and Object models. It will survey all the necessary steps (sometimes left out of methodology texts) to go from the analysis of business processes to operational software. The seminar will provide insight into the following areas:

what are the relationships between Use cases and an object model
how is a business model morphed into a software architecture
how can requirements, Use case, scenario, object communication and state diagrams be tied together in a single coherent repository
what are the various steps in the modeling effort
how does an analyst interact with subject matter experts to drive a modeling effort to a successful conclusion
what are the criteria that should be used when selecting CASE and other analysis tools

The talk should be of interest to anyone involved in business process improvement, re-engineering, software architecture or programming.

Brian Berenbach has been involved with Object Technology for over 17 years. He has designed commercially successful object oriented software for the chemical and power industries, including the products CETRANTM and PROGRESTM. He has consulted as an OO architect and mentor to companies such as Bell Atlantic, AT&T, ADP, Metromedia, and American International Underwriters. Brian has also published articles on Object Technology, has conducted several IEEE and ACM seminars, and was a speaker at the 1995 Object Expo. He is currently a senior specialist in Object Technology with TRECOM Business Systems.

Date: Thursday November 14, 1996, 8:00 pm
Location: Auditorium, David Sarnoff Research Center, 201 Washington Road (Rt 571 1/4 mile south of US 1), Princeton, NJ

Additional Information: recorded info (609) 924-8704, Dennis Mancl (908) 582-7086, or John DeGood (609) 734-2028

A pre-meeting dinner with the speaker is held at 6 p.m. at the Rusty Scupper on Alexander Road in Princeton. If you would like to attend, please call the information number to record your reservation on the answering machine.

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