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Lecture On System Analysis
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Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs) are the link between initial business
analysis, E-R diagrams and relational database models
Tuesday, November 26, MIS 90-728 Lecture Notes 9
1999
Practical Significance of DFDs
• Many older information systems (legacy systems):
– Are mainframe-based (inaccessible to most non-IT users);
– Use non-relational (hierarchical) databases, and
– Require second-generation programming languages (e.g. COBOL)
to perform data input, queries, reporting.
Thus, many IT professionals focus on data flows and
physical implementation, not data relationships or RDBM
design principles.
• Many business processes are so complex that E-R design
alone will not give analysts insight into their businesses
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