Bprime

Effectively capture and communicate software requirements that match business processes.

Overview

Ensemble Bprime™ is a business analysis tool. It provides highly effective ways of eliciting, analyzing, modeling, documenting, and sharing requirements and design information.

Bprime tightly integrates all design documents, models, requirements, and more, providing an unprecedented degree of accessibility to all the relevant information. Bprime makes it easy to engage your customers in the requirements gathering and design process by making the usage context clear and immediately obvious. This level of engagement quickly exposes gaps in understanding and leads to the customer being better able to articulate their needs. The result is less risk of building the wrong thing and less time wasted on rework.

Benefits

• Capture and communicate requirements effectively.
• Improve the quality and speed of requirements gathering.
• Ensure software requirements match business processes.
• Combine requirements documents with business process and design models to visualize relationships.
• Follow your chosen methodology, not one imposed by a tool.

Key Features

• Bprime is especially suitable for determining the fit/gap with packaged enterprise applications such as CRM or ERP by presenting easily understood models of out-of-the-box functionality, along with the means for documenting the customization requirements in context.
• Bprime is highly customizable; Ensemble can make it work exactly the way you want to, or you can develop your own plug-ins.
• Bprime integrates easily with your existing tools for requirements management, design, defect tracking, etc.
• Bprime generates high quality documentation directly from the captured information—there is very little overhead in publishing project deliverables. Document formats and content are easily customized.
• Bprime is extremely lightweight in comparison to tools (suites) with similar capabilities.

Application and System Compatibility

As a Java application, Bprime is platform-independent—you can use it anywhere you can install JRE 1.4.2 or later.

There are currently two editions of Bprime:

• Bprime BA: A business analysis tool for analysts involved with enterprise software projects.
• Bprime for Siebel: Enables Siebel CRM systems to be implemented quickly and correctly.