Chapter + Section Summary

Summary of The Syngenta story

Syngenta ia world leading agribusiness committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology

The comany's business strategy focuses on three major market areas-agri, consumer-led, and new. Another way of leveling these areas is efficiency, growth, and innovation

Summary of Saturday's class (chapters 21 and 22)

• Modeling processes translate the enterprise specifications to fulfill requirements.
• To deal with a huge project, look for common ground across different functions
• An object is an instance of a class, example: (class: person, object: librarian)
• Metadata is data about data
• An Example of technical metadata: Cust_id( alphanumeric, length, location, database,…)
• An example of a business metadata: Cust_id= customer id number
• Activities are actions, processes are a series of activities
• you can schedule an activity but not a process
• Processes are triggered by events, example: course registration is triggered by student registration request form

Summary of the section Implementation and deployment

• E-governance is emerging as a strategic tool for governance and international relations.
• The design and development of federated ERP is subject to a lot of problems and a lot of work and studies and work is being done to solve them.
• The scope of enterprise architecture is AS-Is, TO-BE, and Governance.
• Effective EA is both a technical and a social activity because both analytical and personal skills are important.
• Modeling processes translate the enterprise specifications to fulfill requirements