Tuesday 22 September 2015

Requirements Elicitation for Business Intelligence

A detailed insight of business requirements is never available at an analyst’s fingertips. Much of business or technical requirements are obtained from end users as well as through surveys. The purpose of requirements elicitation is to systematically categorize the business requirements, business risks, and assumptions associated with any given project.

Requirement Elicitation

One of the fundamental things an organization may require after installing an enterprise software application is essential a Business Intelligence (BI) Software. BI tools play a significant role in the organization as they provide an insight into the various data outlines, relations between organizational data sets, and can provide input to tactical decision-making, as well as it is essential to comprehend all the strategic requirements of the business.
The business will be in a much better state to understand what software tool is required when what exactly needs to be accomplished is determined. For instance, analyzing what users do (tasks) and the decisions they make would help to gauge the requirements. These requirements can then be used as a foundation for determining the level of complexity the application would be required to handle. Once requirements are gathered and it is determined what level of BI software configuration is required, user can then start evaluating solutions based on their capability to deliver the requirements.

Elicitation Techniques
After obtaining the stakeholders, an analyst needs to determine the best techniques for eliciting requirements:

Brainstorming – The brainstorming procedure and the subsequent follow-up analysis will help ensure that the best possible solution is obtained for any business objective.

Document analysis – This kind of elicitation is essentially beneficial when the objective is to update the prevailing system or when the understanding of prevailing system will enrich a new system.  However, document analysis alone is not enough to systematically extract all of the requirements for any given project.

Focus Group – Focus groups is a good way for time-pressed analysts to get a lot of information at an instant.

Interface Analysis – An interface analysis carefully examines and analyses the way that a user interacts with an application, or the way one application interacts with another.

Interviews – Personal interviews are amongst the most popular kinds of requirement elicitation technique. They give an analyst the opportunity to discuss the stakeholder’s opinions and get his or her viewpoint regarding the business needs and the feasibility of potential solutions

Prototyping (story-boarding, navigation flow, paper prototyping, screen flows) – Prototyping is particularly valuable to relate to a graphic illustration of the end product.

While you may get away by not considering the non-functional requirements with other applications, it is essential when dealing with BI. BI applications should be selected only after contemplation of their compatibility with your existing architecture/infrastructure and a host of other relevant factors. Collecting requirements for reporting/business intelligence may seem overpowering but can be streamlined by asking the right questions.


It is essential to determine the following questions to elicit accurate requirements:
  1. What business decisions are essential in order to achieve the organizational goals (short-term and long-term)?
  2. Which key business processes does the business need to improve?
  3. What critical business decisions need to be made to facilitate business operations?
  4. What information is obligatory to accomplish key job functions effectively? 
BI tools help to deliver a platform for users to interpret pre-defined KPIs for strategic decision-making. It significant to comprehend what business decisions the BI tools need to support so that the required data can be made available.

About the author:
Gurpreet Kaur Gaga is a consultant in Systems Plus Pvt. Ltd. Within Systems Plus, she actively contributes to the areas of Technology and Information Security. She can be contacted at: gurpreetkaur.gaga@spluspl.com

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