Business Analysis

  • Business Analysis differs from Business Architecture.
  • Business Analysis typically views business from a functional and process perspective.
  • Business Analysis analyses business functions and processes with a view to automating them i.e. encoding them in software programs to automate portions of the business.
  • Business Architecture operates at higher levels of business understanding focusing on the fundamental context for the business and the concepts that the business and defining both "current" and "future" views to facilitate change including what could and should be automated. In this way business architecture feeds the business analysis processes.