BORM: Agile Modelling for Business Intelligence

Abstract

The business intelligence system gradually became of vital importance for many organizations nowadays. But unfortunately, the traditional static modelling may not be able to deal with it. One solution is to use an agile modelling that is characterized with better flexibility and adaptability. The introduced BORM (Business and Object Relation Modelling) method is just an object-oriented and process-based analysis and design methodology, which has proved to be effective in the development and simulation of large and complex business systems such as business intelligence represents. This chapter describes BORM method and presents it on an application example created in Craft. CASE analysis and modelling tool. At the beginning the authors introduce fundamental principles of BORM method and explain the most important concepts of the method. Finally the authors make clear the method in more detail by means of simple and descriptive, but nontrivial, example from real practice.