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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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Analyst: Big on Motorola, Android; no love for RIM, Palm

To Stay in Business,eventually they will turn to Android.The SAME WAY did HTC and MOTOROLA.and IT will not Take Long!RE: Analyst: Big on Motorola, Android; no love for RIM, PalmRIM forever!droid is cool, but read the comments on the original article.this guy is probably waaaay off.IT Analysts are kind of...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Handhelds, droid, IT-Analysts, Motorola Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Palm Inc., phone, Pre, v60

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

SAP Q3: sales down, profit up

SAP's Q3 results demonstrate continuing softening in the enterprise software sales market. Revenues were down year on year by 31% to €525 million ($787 mill) from €763 million ($1.144 bn) in the same period 2008. Software and software related service revenues declined 3% or €57 million...

Tags: SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-28

CDPS Analyst Interview with John Webster of Illuminata

Instead of focusing on recovery after disasters, midmarket businesses need solutions that enable business continuity before and during them. Listen to the recording, "CDPS Analyst Interview with John Webster of Illuminata," to see how the IBM® Comprehensive Data Protection Express solution addresses the needs of midmarket companies that don't have...

Tags: Analyst, Illuminata Inc., IBM Corp., Backups, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management

Download resources 2009-10-26

Data center design 101

I don't have to design data centers, but I do have to play a knowledgeable wonk on the Web from time to time. With that in mind, I attended two data center presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium to see what I could learn. My knowledge about...

Tags: Data Center, Tiers, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Work Smarter with Telephony Integration and Unified Communications and Collaboration Solutions from IBM

In a rapidly changing world economy, organizations need to become more efficient, more innovative, and more responsive to their customers -- all the while reducing telephony and collaboration costs. Keeping up with change and information overload for companies is becoming much more difficult, but is critical to staying competitive. Listen...

Tags: Collaboration, Telephony, Unified Communications, IBM Corp., Integration, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

Webcasts 2009-10-23

Gartner leaves SOA off 'top ten' list - again

I've been in several study groupsAnd SOA was omitted from final report, in part because participants weren't sure how to define it. Not that cloud computing is a 100% substitute, but it's something we can understand, and whose beefits are proven.ah yes . . .Ah yes, the sound of...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Gartner Inc., SOA

Discussion threads 2009-10-21