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You'll want to read through our Requirements Analysis and Specification briefing study or our Acme Fashion Supplies case study if you are:

• studying for a computing degree
• a business studies student
• starting out as a business analyst / systems analyst

Real-life Analysis Documents

So, you're a systems analyst being asked to do some business analysis for the first time.. or maybe you're a student or a junior business analyst looking for something to really get your teeth into. Or maybe you're a seasoned professional looking for synergies with a new assignment, or simply to brush up on your skills by taking apart someone else's work.

Well you've come to the right place...

These Business Analysis Studies / Examples documents are an essential subset of the project and analysis documents created during real live projects. Details, names, places and volumes are fictional, of course, to protect the identity of those involved.

All analysis documents are in Word 2000 format. If you want to buy in other formats, email customer services and we'll see what we can do.

Presently there are only two sets of real-life analysis documents available, that of the sale of Central Quincum Operations by Utility Gas Co to Simons Metering Services and A Fault Management System for the Integration Testing phase of a large and complex programme for Acme Energy Supplies.

License agreement - lay and legal
Read the full version here. In summary, you are only buying a license to use for personal use on one machine at a time. The copyright remains with Crocus Information Ltd and you are not allowed to make derived works. Of course, in the case of templates their purpose is to create new documents from them - which you are allowed to do - but the template itself remains sacrosanct.

Background

With the deregulation of the energy market, certain centralised infrastructure functions that were conducted by monopoly-holders had to be sold off to prevent conflicts of interest.

Before the sale of Central Quincum Operations could be completed, certain systems and databases needed to be modified and cleansed. This was to allow the large numbers of suppliers that were entering the market to interface to those systems electronically and therefore to compete on a level playing field.

The systems were not designed with competition in mind and correcting that was the aim of this project - without this, a sale of CQO could not be completed. A full blown analysis was conducted to define the work to be carried out. This involved systems, technical interfaces, electronic data interchange interfaces, business process analysis and design, and data analysis, design and cleansing.

Central Quincum Operations - £9.99 + vat

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Description
Documented using a very pragmatic subset of SSADM these are real-life documents that delivered a successful project. The saving made to the client in unlevied charges was around £200,000, achieved within 3 months of implementation.

Buy now and start learning...
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Buy these documents (£9.99 + VAT) and get:

• Project Terms of Reference
• 3 sets of related Statements of Requirements
• 2 Background analysis documents
• 2 Word Document templates, one for Terms of Reference and one for Statements of Requirement (£5 value - ok £4.98!)

You'll see how the detailed requirements came out and see a standard method of presentation. The templates will give you a professional document structure into which you can fit your analysis results. If you can cover off all the sections you shouldn't have left anything out in your investigation.

How to buy
Simply read and agree to the license agreement (of course, in the case of templates their purpose is to create new documents from them - which you are allowed to do - but the template itself remains sacrosanct).

Then hit the PayPal button. Once you have successfully completed the payment transaction you will be given a link to a password protected zip file to download - the password will be emailed to you separately to allow you to unzip.

You are not authorised to click on the PayPal button unless you have read and agreed to the license agreement. Clicking the PayPal button indicates you have done so.

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Background

To enter the deregulated energy market and become a major supplier, Acme Energy Supplies had to develop a complete set of systems from front office to back. Supply, Billing, integration with existing systems, integration with other suppliers (for when someone changes supplier).

The overall business system had to cater for both electricity and gas, and for metered and unmetered dometic customers.

Each major business system development was undertaken by a different Workstream, all delivering to a coordinated set of plans. The Workstreams sometimes were carrying out bespoke developments, and sometimes were managing external suppliers doing the actual development.

As Workstreams started to deliver into Systems and Business Integration testing it became evident that fault management of each Workstream (managed internally by each up until then) had to be co-ordinated centrally.

There were two options, continue as before and formally define how the independant fault management systems would be coordinated between the Workstreams; or alternatively manage all faults on one centralised database.

Fault Management for System Integration phase, Acme Energy Supplies - £7.49 + vat

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Description
Analysed and recorded using a subset of SSADM these real-life documents were used to implement a Fault Tracking and Management system (using PVCS Tracker). The environment included multiple Workstreams comprising a very large (tens of millions of pounds) business change programme.

The main document (see table of contents) contains a problems requirements list, a required system dataflow diagram, process descriptions, user / role definitions, datastore and dataflow descriptions. The secondary option is similar and explores an alternative business system option (the business opted for the first).

Buy now and start learning...
see a screen snapshot of the statement of requirements
Buy these documents (£7.49 + VAT) and get:

• Statement of Requirements (including process design)
• Alternate scenario
• 2 Word Document templates, one for Terms of Reference and one for Statements of Requirement (£5 value)

You'll see a high-level perspective of how PVCS Tracker can be used to cordinate and manage fault tracking and resolution on a very large scale and complex programme of work.

You'll also see a standard method of presentation as modified to suit the specifics of a particular piece of work. In this case, as well as a dataflow diagram and detailed process descriptions, you'll see user roles and dataflows defined.

The standard templates included are a useful addition to your analysis toolkit, something that we all build up over time. They will give you a professional document structure into which you can fit your analysis results. If you can cover off all the sections you shouldn't have left anything out in your investigation.

How to buy
Simply read and agree to the license agreement (of course, in the case of templates their purpose is to create new documents from them - which you are allowed to do - but the template itself remains sacrosanct).

Then hit the PayPal button. Once you have successfully completed the payment transaction you will be given a link to a password protected zip file to download - the password will be emailed to you separately to allow you to unzip.

You are not authorised to click on the PayPal button unless you have read and agreed to the license agreement. Clicking the PayPal button indicates you have done so.

See more
view product readme file or see the table of contents and a screen snapshot from one of the completed Statements of Requirements documents

Business Analysis Document Templates - £2.49 + vat each

Description
Templates for various analysis phases of a business project. Each comes with a structure and the headings already in place. And of course, you can re-use these for each new project.

To help make them easy to use, each section / heading is accompanied by a description of what should go there. These are skeletons of the equivalent documents in the Central Quincum Operations study.

With these templates not only will you have a document in which you can present your analysis findings, you'll also have an outline plan of what to do. That is, the analysis work to provide content for each section.

Of course, your skill as an analyst at uncovering that detail will determine the final quality (fitness for purpose) of the document.

How to buy
Simply read and agree to the license agreement (of course, in the case of templates their purpose is to create new documents from them - which you are allowed to do - but the template itself remains sacrosanct).

Then hit the PayPal button. Once you have successfully completed the payment transaction you will be given a link to a password protected zip file to download - the password will be emailed to you separately to allow you to unzip.

Why do you need a document that defines the Terms of Reference for the work?

Simple. It sets out clearly between you and the business exactly what you will and won't be doing and the types and quantities of resource needed.. no business manager worth their salt likes surprises or misunderstandings.

By producing the TOR and gaining business sign-off, you will have minimised the risk of misunderstandings and cleared one of the most difficult hurdles - clarity of the business's perspective and expectations.

See the core content of the Terms Of Reference for the Acme Fashion Supplies case study