I am wondering what type of software tools do you use (or used) in your day to day role as analyst (anything from Notepad to Rational Rose)?

Here are some that I use:

• SOFTWARE: MS World, PURPOSE: Functional Specifications, Requirements Documents, Vision Document, Business Case.
• SOFTWARE: MS Excel, PURPOSE: Capacity planning, Traceability, Data Analysis.
• SOFTWARE: MS Visio, PURPOSE: Process Models, Use Case Models, Domain Models (Class Diagram), Sequence Diagrams.
• SOFTWARE: ErWin, PURPOSE: Entity Relationship Diagrams.
• SOFTWARE: MS PowerPoint, PURPOSE: Present of problem statements, Present possible solutions, etc.
• SOFTWARE: Visual Studio Web Edition, PURPOSE: UI Mockups, Prototypes

- Adrian

I stick to the basics with software as well (Powrpoint, mainly) but also use the following tools to great effect;

• Whiteboards
• A3 sketchpads
• Butcher's paper
• Post-it notes

Not so useful for distributed teams of course, but quite effective for me.

Forgot, my current client uses DOORS for Requirements Management and Traceability, I have been given an overview but have not used it yet....