For Successful System Implementation
Business Analysis/Designing phase

Once the user organization is ready to promote the project with a well prepared Project Plan, the next step is Business Analysis and Designing, which often requires to be outsourced to third-party consultants/system integrators.

Business Analysis

Business Analysis is a process designed to gather information that will assess the current and/or future operational process of an organization.

Business Analysis should be conducted based on the concept of the frameworks that the application is to be placed upon.

The Business Analysis is a crucial step as the aggregate extract of the analysis becomes the System Requirements for the design of the new system that leads to Kaizen.

The System Requirements are the needs and dependencies of the required information, which determine the basic design of the new system.

Business Analysis/Designing phase

Business Analysis/Designing phase might be similar to an architect gathering a client’s needs and ideas for a new house and creating blueprints.

The resulting house will be built according to the specifications of the blue prints.

Sometimes user organizations jump ahead of the Business Analysis/Designing phase, and move to immediately implement a system. This is equivalent to building a house without blueprints.

Designing Flexibility

Flexible and expandable architecture, such as PEXA® Conceptual Pattern Framework*, is vital for smooth system implementation.

  • The user organization seldom knows exactly what they want and cannot articulate all the requirements at the beginning.
  • Even if they could state all the requirements, there usually are many details that can be found only when the implementation phase progresses.
  • In designing the architecture, expected future requirements should be contemplated as well as the current requirements.
  • After the implementation, various external factors may require the modification of the specification.
  • The users will not completely satisfied with the new system, and requirements may be altered, expanded and removed frequently, during the course of development and after the implementation.