Amarco - existential questions...

Each time we analyze a system of any kind (whether or not it’s a Computer Information System), there are three main questions that are asked (or should be):

What is its purpose? What are the end user functions of the system?

How it is built? What are the constitutive elements of the system?

How does it work? How the internal elements interact to fulfill the user services?

Amarco helps answer theses questions.

Answering to theses questions you find solutions to some of today's preoccupations:

• Clear communication and reduction of ambiguities between the project management and the project development teams
• Design a functional architecture that expresses clearly what functions you need and how they map on component systems. Set-up and management of an enterprise repository of information systems.
• Delimit a clean border of the domain that is analyzed, identify what are the limits of the domain under study and which are the entities that are outside, its users.
• Control the consequences of the introduction of an ERP system, eliminates the confusion between services and processes
• Express in clear language, discuss and understand, then formalize the system's requirements
• Organize the analysis of the information system in such a way that it pinpoints the business information entities that are portable across various technological platforms
• Create an intuitive model of the enterprise from various viewpoints that keeps under control its complexity and helps see the global picture as well as the components that made its structure.

The results of the application of this method are the clear communication of the requirements, as well as the setup of an architecture that integrates and reuses the Enterprise Information Objects. They are much more powerful and stable as the software objects! These objects constitute a repository for the know-how of the enterprise, actually independent of the available technological platforms! On other words, they store the knowledge of the enterprise, so they may be called also knowledge objects. In this way, we obtain a coherent framework to audit an existing system, to define a new one. The communication between the project’s participants is clear, without ambiguities.

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