This thread is to get a current summary of what tools Business Analyst's are using.

Here are some guesses to help stimulate thinking:

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project(?)

Prototyping: Ms Access GUI, WYSISYG html editor(s), Microsoft Expression Blend, Arise

Requirements Management with good integration: Enterprise Architect, Ibm's Rational Rose

Database Design/Support: Toad 2.5?

Collaboration tools (especially useful when you can't hold a meeting in one location): Groupwise?, Exchange?, Microsoft Live, ?

Tom

RM Tools my team is using:

• Post it notes
• Whiteboards (non printing)
• Phone cameras
• Paper and pen (and textas)
• 3*5 inch cards
• Powerpoint
• Excel
• Sharepoint
• Emails
• Team Foundation Server
• Visio
• Optimal Trace and other Microfocus test tools
• Word
• iPlotz
• Compedium

• Cambridge quad paper pad and HB pencil for interviews and noodling.
  
• Wikidpad to collect and organize everything.
  
• Word with embedded Visio for documentation.
  
• R and Excel for crunching numbers. I recently added XLSim to handle uncertainty.
  
• Rational Suite or Visual Paradigm for really formal work where the client requires tools that cost thousands of dollars per seat to be credible.
  
• Slidy for slide presentations.
  
• DeskPdf for safe distribution.