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The Creative Business Analyst Part 3 - Making Better Decisions

This final paper of the series it looks at decision making techniques - how to select the best idea from the many come up with - and how to justify recommendation to client, manager and peers. Unfortunately the word solution means different things to different people - to a designer...

Tags: Business Analyst, IRM Training, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2009-10-27

The Creative Business Analyst Part 2 - Generating Solution Ideas

A lot of people think that coming up with solutions to business problems is the hardest part about being a business analyst - particularly when working with a client who knows more about the business than people ever will. Don't believe it, after all they've already made considerable progress in...

Tags: Solution, Business Analyst, IRM Training, Productivity

White papers 2009-05-18

The Business Analyst in Model-Driven Architecture: Separating Design From Architecture

From a software development viewpoint, Model-Driven Architecture MDA encourages efficient use of system models. It also encourages reusing best practices as families of systems are produced. One of the main aims of MDA is to separate design from architecture, which places the business analyst in a unique and potentially powerful...

Tags: Business Analyst, Model-driven Architecture, Model Driven Architecture, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-09-09

Who should lead SOA? Enterprise architects or business analysts?

The debate for the heart of the enterprise intensifies -- EA vs. EA, EA vs. BA by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Business Analyst, Electronic Arts Inc., SOA, Ron Schmelzer, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Why You Shouldn't Ignore Business Analysts: Business Analysts Can Be Valuable Allies for You, if You Let Them

In this paper, one learns what business analysts do and why they can be valuable allies. Often misunderstood, business analysts can make one's life easier and help ensure the success of the project. Does it ever feel like no one really appreciates what one does as an architect? It doesn't...

Tags: Business Analyst

White papers 2008-08-12

The Evolving Role of the Business Analyst: The Business Rules Analyst Emerges as a New Star in the Business World

Traditionally, the business analyst has been responsible for analyzing the business needs of companies by identifying business problems and proposing solutions. With the advent of Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, the business analyst has to think about issues such as IT services and how to define business logic as rules for easier...

Tags: Business Analyst, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Roi/Tco, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2008-06-03

BizTalk Server 2004 Orchestration Designer for Business Analysts 1 (Windows)

This is the self extracting executable to be used for installing the Business Analyst Orchestration Designer for BizTalk Server 2004. This tool is intended for Business Analysts to create basic orchestration flows in the familiar Microsoft Visio environment. Using this tool, Business Analysts can create high level orchestrations that can...

Tags: Business Analyst, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2007-08-23

BizTalk Server 2006 Orchestration Designer for Business Analysts 1 (Windows)

This is the self extracting executable to be used for installing the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Orchestration Designer for Business Analysts. This tool is intended for Business Analysts to create basic orchestration flows in the Microsoft Visio environment. Using this tool, Business Analysts can create high level orchestrations that can...

Tags: Business Analyst, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Windows, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2007-08-23

The New Business Analyst: A Strategic Role in the Enterprise

Business analysts are primarily responsible for writing and managing requirements specifications and communicating them with other stakeholders, but this role often falls under other job descriptions as well - including project leads, programmers, chief technical/information officers, IT management and architects. This is true in the enterprise as well as in...

Tags: Job, Business Analyst, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2006-11-01

Business Analyst 6.2 (Windows)

Business Analyst is a flowcharting tool with a difference. It allows users to visually describe business processes, and then attach resource usage, costs, time delays to each part. Business Analyst will then run a time based simulation, and show results, such as resource usage, cost breakdown, time delays and overall...

Tags: Business Analyst, Workstream Automation, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operational Planning, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations

Software downloads 2006-06-22

Eight Things Your Business Analysts Need to Know: A Practical Approach to Recognizing and Improving Competencies

Each year, organizations across the globe face astronomical project failure rates, often wasting millions of dollars per failed project. This paper examines the roots of project failure and centers in on the elusive, often undefined role of the business analyst. In response to research showing that many organizations have not...

Tags: Business Analyst, Project Failure, Competency

White papers 2006-02-15

Aspose.Report 1.1 (Windows)

Aspose.Report is a .Net Report Component which allows developers to break down a report design process into different section so that business analysts, developers or DBA can work on different parts, for instance, a developer could use SQL editor to compose dynamic SQL script and retrieve data (The good understanding...

Tags: Developer, Business Analyst, SQL, Microsoft Windows, Aspose, Aspose.Report, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2005-05-19

What Is a Business Analyst?

The term Business Analyst is synonymous with a career in the IT industry but the most successful and valuable analysts are those who understand the "Business" rather than those who understand IT. So what exactly is a Business Analyst? What is the Business Analyst's role? What is the best background...

Tags: Business Analyst, IRM Training, Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career, Management

White papers 2005-01-24

TEKsystems Case Study: One of the Largest Healthcare Benefits Companies

The client, a leading healthcare benefits company, was preparing to change its patient identification numbers as mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 HIPAA. HIPAA was enacted in part to address the need for a Unique Individual Identifier UID as part of an administrative simplification process...

Tags: Business Analyst, Health Care, TEKsystems, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Regulations, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software

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Additional Resources

Anti-SAP? Pfft!!

My Enterprise Advocates colleague Vinnie Mirchandani takes the high ground in a discussion about the forthcoming SAP Influencer Summit conference juxtaposed to the Sapience event. As is often the case, Vinnie addresses the issue square on. Here's a taster: I am presenting mostly on how to manage systems integration,...

Tags: SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-12-03

Don't do anything until we know all the facts

CRU director stands down pending investigation"Britain's University of East Anglia says the director of its prestigious Climatic Research Unit is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change."http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j_dt9Bjj5yVV7k1PAyDnVHKvKtgAD9CAM0VG0Following the revelations in The Times yesterday:"SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia UEA have...

Tags: global warming

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download

Microsoft still firmly planted in the LAST century.NTLinux Kernel speaks?Hmmm, I'd fear for the future of Linux if this is what comes out of it. You'd think the "many eyes" would have caught such silly logic in the kernel years ago...and looking ready to dominate this oneas well.Google is...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, public beta, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Office suites, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

The role of data governance in the enterprise

According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...

Tags: Data Quality, Data Governance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, data management, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News

News items 2009-11-12

Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity

Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...

Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, IT Operations, information technology, customer service

Discussion threads 2009-11-11