Analyst Study Reveals 91% of Business Analysts Use Ineffective Tools
to Define Requirements
Business Analyst Role Explored in Detail by voke in Latest Market
Snapshot; Finds Market for Business Analyst Solutions One of the Fastest
Growing in the Application Lifecycle
SAN FRANCISCO (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) August 14, 2008 --
voke, inc., a modern analyst firm for the Web 2.0 world, announced today
the publication of the voke Market SnapshotTM
Report: The Role of the Business Analyst. This independent survey of the
business analyst focuses on:
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the role and interaction with others in the lifecycle
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the communication processes and channels used to gather and define
requirements
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the market readiness of solutions expressly for the business analyst
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a market forecast for solutions designed for the business analyst
The report found that business analysts are playing a greater role than
ever in the success of IT projects. 74% of business analysts have been
in the role greater than three years, indicating that the role is
maturing and having a greater impact on the alignment of the line of
business and the IT organization. The report concludes that
organizations with business analysts are more likely to satisfy their
customers in a more timely fashion, which translates to a competitive
business advantage.
“Software drives the business and business
analysts are the key conduit in delivering satisfaction to the line of
business by effectively defining requirements to the IT organization,”
said Theresa Lanowitz, founder of voke. “The
business analyst is critical to the overall success an organization will
experience with its applications.”
The report highlights the need for improved use of solutions to help the
business analyst closely align requirements with the business needs. 91%
of the study’s participants say the solutions
they use to define requirements are static and do not meet the dynamic
nature needed for today’s business analyst.
The report also identifies a lack of integration between existing
requirements definition solutions and the creation of test cases. A
total of 76% of survey participants manually create test cases from
their requirements.
“It is critical to the alignment of the line
of business and IT, as well as customer satisfaction to eliminate time
consuming and error prone tasks such as the manual creation of test
cases from requirements,” said Lisa Dronzek,
COO of voke. “Dynamic creation of test cases
from requirements frees up the time of the test engineer to focus on
more strategic quality efforts. Incorporating modern and dynamic
solutions for the business analyst will complement and enhance existing
investments in testing solutions.”
As a result, the report forecasts that the market for business analyst
solutions will be one of the fastest growing segments within the
application lifecycle market over the next few years, soon to be a
billion dollar segment annually.
“The business analyst has been dramatically
underserved for far too long,” said David
Nyland, CEO of Blueprint Systems, a leading provider of requirements
solutions to meet the business analyst need. “As
their role grows in importance, we have seen a significant increase in
demand for solutions that help them closely align requirements with the
business need. Our customers are seeing dramatic improvements in their
development process by leveraging requirements solutions to enable the
business analyst to succeed.”
A detailed market forecast is included in the report.
The full voke Market Snapshot Report: The Role of the Business Analyst
is available to subscribers at www.vokestream.com.
To learn more about this topic, register for the webinar Business
Analysts Empowered: Optimize Global IT Project Teams Through a
Requirements Lifecycle to be held on Thursday, August 21 2:00 PM
Eastern / 11:00 AM Pacific. To register, visit www.requirements.net.
About voke
Founded in 2006, voke, inc. represents a new model in thought leadership
based on fluid collaboration, discussion, and real-time interactions to
deliver strategic advice in technology markets. By communicating,
collaborating, and understanding the impact technology has on the world
around us, voke delivers market analysis, trend observation, and
insight. Companies of all sizes, financial firms, and venture capital
organizations turn to voke to harness strategic marketing, independent
and impartial market observations and analysis to move markets beyond
the status quo. For more information about voke, visit www.vokeinc.com.
Targeted memberships in the vokeStream community are available for the
enterprise, technology vendors, press, service providers, financial
analysts and venture capital teams. Visit www.vokestream.com
to request a membership.
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