Bprime BA

A business analysis tool for analysts involved with enterprise software projects

Bprime™ BA helps you build better systems faster. Everyone in the project benefits:

Role Benefit From Using Bprime
Customers Requirements and business process information is made easily and immediately visible in context during requirements gathering—which means that customers can spot problems and opportunities for innovation very early. The end result is a system that better meets the customer's business goals.
Business Analysts A high level of engagement with customers leads to fast, accurate requirements gathering, meaning less rework and happier customers. Bprime makes it easy to work from templates of off-the-shelf solutions to help customers see what is supported and the scope of work required to customize it.
Developers Design, implementation, and feature prioritization is easier because the business context of requirements is available. Bprime helps teams ensure that requirements are not overlooked and that they are implemented in the way that the customer intended.

Bprime BA is built on top of the Bprime engine, which provides key services such as basic modeling, presentation, persistence, model transformation, and collaboration. Bprime BA adds features such as:

  • Business process diagrams: Business process diagrams are readily understood by non-technical audiences and are particularly useful for helping customers feel comfortable about contributing to the design of their business processes. Bprime's tracability feature makes business process diagrams even more useful by closely linking requirements, business vision, and other related documents with the business processes that will use the system under development.
  • Export to Microsoft® Word RTF: Export all captured requirements, diagrams, and other design elements to a Word document. This is particularly useful in requirements elicitation workshops because it provides a simple way to give participants a summary of progress, which they can review. Our experience has been that participants feel more involved in the process and actively review and provide feedback to these reports.
  • Import/Export: Import existing information from other tools, or export Bprime information to other tools. Ensemble has extensive experience with modeling and software development tool integration, and we have drawn on this experience to design Bprime for customization and integration.
  • Use case editor: Improve elicitation and requirements gathering by simultaneously working with use case diagrams and text.