4.2.2. MERISE
method
MERISE is a French acronym, «Méthode de
Recherche Informatique pour les Systèmes d'Entreprise». It is
a method of analysis, design and IT project management. MERISE has been widely
used in the 1970s and 1980s to the massive computerization of organizations
4.2.2.1. Advantages
MERISE method has as undeniable advantage of allowing a clear
definition of the overall information system and to define correctly the
perimeter.
The strength of the MERISE method is to structure the needs of
decision makers in a simple and understandable way. MERISE improves
communication between different actors in the development process. This method,
thanks to its models, oversees the project and thereby protects the speakers of
a possible development irrelevant.
Follow this intellectual journey may also help the company to
better know, understand each other better and thus communicate better.
4.2.2.2. Limits
MERISE method is ill-suited to distributed environments where
multiple external applications to a domain come interact with the application
to model. Moreover, it is not able to model the semantic identifiable
information (documents).
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