A process followed by Nursing that consists of counting a CS inventory location after medication is removed from it. An example would be a locked cabinet drawer in which morphine tablets are stored. Each time a tablet is removed, the nurse should do a “Back-Count” on the drawer by entering the remaining number of tablets into the system.
A complete copy of a project that is captured to act as a “snapshot” of the project’s plans and status at a particular point in time. This frozen perspective is used to measure change from the original snapshot or picture of that original element.
The main success scenario from trigger to completion.
Bar Code Medication Administration
BEA Systems, Inc.
Twice a Day
A testing technique that takes an external perspective of the system and does not explicitly use knowledge of the internal structure of the system. Testing without knowledge of the internal workings of the item being tested.
Business Object
Allows the local pharmacy to obtain inventory without placing a Vendor purchase order. This order does not involve billing, but will support “horse trading” for specific items with the lending institution. See glossary term Lend Order (Inventory).
Business Process Re-engineering
Baseline System Architecture Document
An object model describing the realization of business Use Cases.
Used to hide the underlying implementation details of the business service, such as lookup and access details of the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) architecture. The software intermediary used to decouple business components from the code that uses them.
A façade used to encapsulate calls to your business model.
A set of techniques a company uses to design its business according to specific goals.
The logic relating to processing, workflow, business rules, data, etc.
The code that resides in this layer executes the work that needs to be done; it is responsible for carrying out the individual steps of a process. This layer is typically designed using business entities. The business entities implement the business rules. They do not store the business data; instead, they may hold references to data entities that store the data.
A visual representation of business processes and entities. Comprises two models (physical or logical representation of a system or its subsystems): (1) a business Use Case model to describe the business actors and the business processes, and (2) a business object model to describe business entities used by the business Use Cases.
An object that represents tangible entities within an application that a user can create, access, and manipulate while performing a Use Case. Business Objects are typically stateful, persistent, and long-lived. Business Objects contain business data and model the business behavior.
A group of activities that takes input, transforms it, and provides an output to an internal/external customer (see glossary term Process). An example of a business process for a hospital would be “order fulfillment,” involving the input of several cross-functional activities resulting in a prescription in the hands of the Patient customer.
A model that outlines the workflow of an organization. It uses text, diagrams, and/or graphical shapes to model the various steps of a process. Models can be detailed in nature (representing very specific tasks) or they can be high-level (representing interaction between major business units).
The fundamental analysis and redesign of business processes and management systems, job definitions, organizational structures and beliefs, and behaviors to achieve dramatic performance improvements to meet contemporary requirements. Information Technology (IT) is a key enabler in this process.
The basic business vocabulary and criteria that control or guide business behavior; indicate what is required and not required in running the business. A statement expressing a policy or condition that governs business actions and establishes data integrity guidelines.
The software object that a client asks to do asynchronous processing; a service in the business tier that can process a client’s software request.