Business Analysis Tools
Organize, Share and Define Your Requirements
Need a place to organize, share, and help define your business analysis requirements? These business analysis tools range from modeling and analytical tools to repositories for sharing and tracing requirements. Utilizing one of these analysis tools can enhance your team collaboration, stakeholder presentations, and management of requirements for larger or more complex projects.
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Axure RP 7 creates prototypes of websites and apps without coding. Provides the capability to produce wireframes, prototypes, and is a documentation tool. The Pro version has additional collaboration features. Used by professionals including business analysts, information architects, usability experts, product managers, and IT consultants around the world from Fortune 1000 companies to independent agencies, Axure RP has become an essential tool for successful application design.
Balsamiq Wireframes (formerly Balsamiq Mockups) is the industry-leading rapid wireframing software that combines the comfort and simplicity of paper sketching with the power of a digital tool, so your work is easier to share, modify, and get honest feedback on. Wireframes look like sketches, so stakeholders won’t get distracted by little details, and can focus on what’s important instead. Balsamiq is available for Desktop, as a hosted web service, or integrated with Google Drive, Confluence and Jira.
Blueprint offers industry leading requirements definition solutions under the umbrella of Requirements Center™. Blueprint™ solutions accelerate the application lifecycle by pre-populating accurate project blueprints ( ie: Development Models, Use Cases, Flowcharts, Test Scenarios and all Documentation) necessary to ensure that the development team produces software applications that reflect 100% of what the business needs. Blueprint™ provides bi-directional traceability between all artifacts to ensure the fidelity of the end product.
Enterprise Architect provides full life cycle modeling for Business and IT systems, Software and Systems Engineering, and Real-time and embedded development. With built-in requirements management capabilities, Enterprise Architect helps you trace high-level specifications to analysis, design, implementation, test and maintenance models using UML, SysML, BPMN and other open standards. Enterprise Architect is a multi-user, graphical tool designed to help your teams build robust and maintainable systems.
JIRA Software is built for every member of your software team to plan, track, and release great software. Create user stories and issues, plan sprints, and distribute tasks across your software team. Prioritize and discuss your team’s work in full context with complete visibility. Ship with confidence and sanity knowing the information you have is always current.
Livescribe smartpens bring your words and ideas into your digital world. Watch your notes appear instantly on your iOS and Android mobile devices. Paired with the Livescribe+ mobile app, notes become more useful when they are organized, tagged, searchable and converted to text.
MeetingSense is a cloud-based meeting management software that leverages your team’s existing tools and familiar workflows to help capture, share, and then easily manage the contextual information exchanged in every meeting. This business productivity software helps your team conduct the most effective and productive meetings possible to drive maximum business success. Efficiently capture all critical aspects of any meeting, including things like, your: notes, action items, group decisions, attendance, files and more… all in a single, intuitive interface.
MID modeling company offers modeling business processes, software and databases, as well as tool solutions and consultancy services. MID serves customers worldwide.
Innovator is a comprehensive tool, from Enterprise Architecture to business analysis, right through to database modeling.
Process Street provides workflow and automation management software for teams of all sizes. The checklist software creates actionable and detailed ways to make sure the best work gets done every time. Process Street aims to make work fun, fast, and faultless for teams everywhere. The platform comes with a huge library of premade process templates and a Zapier integration to connect with all the apps you already use.
By producing rich visualizations in a single click, RAVEN for MS Office transforms your natural language descriptions into diagrams that others can understand and validate, increasing business value and reducing projected costs. And it works within the Microsoft tools you already use on a daily basis – Word, Excel and Visio – displaying narratives and diagrams side-by-side for greater context and understanding.
Smartdraw is a graphic diagramming tool that includes stencils for ANSI flowcharts, organizational charts, swim lane diagrams and data flow diagrams.
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TaskMap® is the simplest way to document, communicate, and manage business process information. Built as an add-in to Microsoft Visio, TaskMap employs only six shapes, which not only makes maps easy to create, but more importantly, makes them easy to read. In addition, TaskMap shapes contain both predefined and user-defined data attributes. The end result is not just an attractive picture of a process, but one that provides reports, data visualizations, and a rich set of imports and exports to other Microsoft products like Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
TopTeam™ Analyst provides a “complete solution” for Requirements gathering and management. It includes use case authoring and modeling, requirements capture and management, a repository for requirement artifacts, traceability, issue tracking and a full suite of collaboration tools. This tool provides a rich requirements editor and provides an integrated drawing tool for any free format diagram.
VersionOne® revolutionizes how teams at all levels, Enterprise, Portfolio, Program and Team,work together in complete harmony to develop and deliver software faster. Built from the top down to support enterprise agile at scale. Everyone will get the context they need – to connect the dots and remain focused on accelerating software delivery.
Visio makes it easy and intuitive to create flowcharts, diagrams, org charts, floor plans, engineering designs, and more, using modern shapes and templates with the familiar Office experience. You can connect your flowcharts and diagrams to real-time data, visualize that data in your diagrams, and when the data changes, the visualizations update automatically. In addition to the traditional desktop version, Visio Online helps your team work together on diagrams using any web browser on any device.
Visure Solutions is a trusted specialized requirements ALM partner for companies of all sizes across safety-critical and business-critical industries. Visure offers specialized, innovative and user-friendly Requirement ALM platform to implement efficient requirements lifecycle management (including full traceability, tight integration with MS Word/Excel, risk management, test management, bug tracking, requirements testing, requirements quality analysis, Requirement versioning and baselining, powerful reporting & standard compliance templates for ISO 26262, IEC 62304, IEC 61508, CENELEC 50128, DO-178B/C, FMEA, SPICE, CMMI, etc.) aimed at guaranteeing the highest quality of designing safe compliant products consistent with product’s requirements.
Wrike is a work management and collaboration platform used by high-performance agile and waterfall teams. In Agile, assign stories into sprints, manage the backlog, and use burndown charts to monitor progress. For Waterfall projects, set milestones and dependencies between tasks and use the interactive Gantt chart to visualize the plan.