Business Process and Data Flow Diagrams(DFD)

Posted: Oct/06/2009 By: pankaj Points:15 Category: DataWarehousing - Others Views:197 Vote Up (0) Vote Down (0)

In Business Process, DFD is a top-down approach, that focuses on the flow of data between various Business Processes and helps to capture & document the movements within a business or organization. Business process DFDs were created for the purpose of developing application softwares and they describe about the data sources, destinations, flows, data storage and transformations. DFD contains five basic constructs namely: activities(processes), data flows(arrows), data stores, external references and physical resources.

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