Information Engineering Methodology

This chapter discusses the history and evolution of Information Engineering, with emphasis on the business-driven IE variant. It describes the methods used at each phase in the systems development life cycle: strategic business planning; strategic, tactical and operational data modelling ; process modelling; systems design; and systems implementation. It describes the application and use of IE for Forward Engineering, Reverse Engineering and Business Re-Engineering, and illustrates business-driven IE principles with a Business Re-Engineering example. The chapter concludes with a summary of Internet and Intranet technologies; discussing development of Client/Server systems and Data Warehouses, and their deployment via the Internet and corporate Intranets.