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» FEATURED: Data Modelling & Object Oriented Development

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Data Modelling & Object Oriented Development

At some stage in their working life, every business analyst will have some involvement with data modelling. They may need to model how data is (or will be) used or - if they only deal with requirements investigation - then someone else in the team will need to verify that the data to support new functions will be available.

» Business Process Management Across the Extended Enterprise: Challenges, Examples and Benefits of Web-Based Software

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Business Process Management Across the Extended Enterprise: Challenges, Examples and Benefits of Web-Based Software

There are considerable benefits from extending business process management capabilities outside the boundaries of the company, and clearly measurable value is much easier to quantify when stakeholders are outside the traditional walls of the business.

» FEATURED: An Introduction to Activity Diagrams

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An activity diagram is a type of flowchart that is part of the UML (Unified Modeling Language) standard. Its purpose is to enable analysts to present a concrete, easy-to-follow visual of the workflow of a business use case.

» FEATURED: Designing Mobile Apps: Using Old School Tools for New School Technology

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Designing Mobile Apps: Using Old School Tools for New School Technology

Mobile application development is hot. Smart phones and tablets sales are exploding, and technical teams are exploring ideas for new applications. With new development work, sometimes roles like Business Analysis get left behind as programmers rush to code a new mobile app. Even when we’re in a rapidly changing industry, taking a bit of time to wor...

» FEATURED: Documenting SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

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Documenting SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

For projects that may well be delivered by Service Oriented Architecture (possibly using Service Oriented Analysis), I would suggest that you may need to consider different or additional ways of documenting your requirements and specifications. The reason for this is that the way you shape your requirements needs to encompass both the holistic natu...

» FEATURED: What is Enterprise Analysis: does it differ from Enterprise Architecture?

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What is Enterprise Analysis: does it differ from Enterprise Architecture?

Enterprise Analysis is a knowledge area which describes the Business analysis activities that take place for an enterprise to identify business opportunities, build a Business Architecture, determine the optimum project investment path for that enterprise and finally, implement new business and technical solutions. The question you may ask: Does th...

» FEATURED: Service Oriented Analysis

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Although you can do ‘standard’ requirements gathering for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects, there is now an evolving a set of analysis techniques, methods and approaches that purport to be better suited to information gathering and design specification. I will call these generically Service Oriented Analysis.

» FEATURED: Top Tips for Successful SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Pilots

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Top Tips for Successful SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Pilots

We are often asked what you need to do to run a successful SOA Pilot. Based on our experience of dozens of pilots, I propose that the following characteristics are essential to success.

» FEATURED: Guerrilla Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

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Guerrilla Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

It is unfortunate, but not surprising, that the elegant and relatively simple view of SOA has become bloated with a bewildering array of methodologies and products, leading to confusion and bafflement by many of its proponents and potential converts.

» FEATURED: SOA: Re-use with Registries and Repositories

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So far in this column on SOA for Analysts, I have talked about the use and re-use of services as building blocks to put together new or better business applications. Now you are getting familiar with this concept, I need to peel away a layer of the SOA onion and expose you to a few tears by revealing this as a half-truth.

» FEATURED: The Business Analyst of Tomorrow (and Now Today) It is a Software Development Revolution

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We are witnessing a marked increase in both the importance of and focus on the work of the business analyst that is directly proportional to the depth with which cloud computing services are utilized. What's more, we are experiencing a shift in the tools and skills that our analysts and those of our customers are required to utilize.

» FEATURED: SOA as a Service

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Anyone perusing the computing rags (or their online equivalents) will no doubt have noticed that this year's big thing for applications development is a combination of Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). I'll talk about Clouds in a future blog, as I want to concentrate on the SaaS phenomenon today.

» FEATURED: Process-Driven SOA

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Much of the current buzz about SOA has been focussed on the technology (inevitably Web Services) or the importance of reusability. However the real value of SOA is in the improvement to processes and ways of working that reflect the alignment of an organisation with its customers and suppliers. The approach we favour is one that begins by ali...

» FEATURED: The SOA Experience for Analysts

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Most analysts are introduced to SOA in one of three ways; two of which are potentially painful and one of which is actually useful. I’ll let you decide which you would prefer.

» FEATURED: Can SOA Give You A Good Service?

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Like any other religion, sorry architecture, SOA has its own language and meanings for the terms it uses. Unfortunately, some of these words can be very confusing, none more than the term "service". So here is a bluffer's guide to understanding and conversing in SOA-speak.

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