An piece by David Marco in DM Review this month caught my eye - Metadata Management & Enterprise Architecture: SOAs and Metadata Management, Part 2. Here's a graphic he uses, reproduced from DM Review:
Now I have to take issue with this. Here's what I would propose instead:
The difference is that business rules both control data and make decisions and decisions support (and are supported by) processes. Decisions are a first class object and deserve to be treated as such. Hopefully David will post a comment and respond.
BTW I posted about three other DM Review articles today. Check out The Opportunity for Analytics, Business Event Monitoring and Metadata and Business Rules
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Hi,
Shouldn't there be a many-to-many relationship in between decisions and data, too? Some decisions are taken making use of information, or am I wrong?
Regards,
Marc
Marc
You are correct and I agree - the diagram is meant to imply exactly that - a many to many between decisions and data. Looking at it again today I can see why you might not have thought that it did.
JT