When one starts the planning process for a project, one of the main things (or the main one) of your planning makeup is risk itself. In other words – what could possibly and eventually go wrong? To many of you it may sound as а negative mindset but it is in fact a preventative one. Issues are an integral part of every process, but if you have a strategy in mind to tackle them, risk will be minimized and managed. Read more
In our previous articles we went through the skills, required for a business analyst and also how his responsibilities differ from those of an agile business analyst. Having these in mind, there has been a notable increase in confusion when it comes to business analysis and technical business analysis too. These terms have widely been used as synonymous, but there are a number of prominent differences between them. Read more
We already went through the main skills that a business analyst should be equipped with. They can roughly be categorized in three categories: fundamental, technical and BA (Business Analyst) skills.
There is this term and profession emerging – and agile business analyst. What exactly does it mean and in what way is it different from a business analyst’s profession? Read more
Data management is quite similar to managing one’s health. If you do not pay attention to your health, eventually you will get sick and if you continue neglecting it, then you will suffer from poor health. And this is quite hard to manage unless you are ready to make drastic changes in your lifestyle. Same applies to data – if you do not take care of your organization’s data, in the course of time minor problems will become so serious that a major surgery will be needed. That is to say: re-engineering of your organization’s entire data infrastructure. Read more
Over the last 20 years data has evolved a lot. And every organization is rethinking its data architecture. According to Gartner: “data architecture and technologies are rapidly shifting to become highly distributed”. A reason for this is the amount of data organizations nowadays have to manage. Read more
More and more businesses are now moving their data and critical IT infrastructure to the cloud. We can undoubtedly say that the cloud revolution is upon us. And it is a logical tendency – companies prefer to rent applications and storage because it’s cheaper than buying infrastructure and building it out from scratch. Read more
We already made you familiar with the main benefits of implementing an ERP software. Few of the numerous advantages are: better productivity and efficiency, lower costs, improved task management, better planning and realistic forecasting, etc.
ERP systems link and define a wide range of business processes and enable the flow of data between them. It has become an integral part of business though in the very beginning it was considered to be a mere business management software program. And it is not only smoothing the business but boosting its overall growth. Read more
You all must have heard people using the term cloud – it is where applications and documents are saved, or a centralized storage space. It allows running workloads remotely over the internet. Users share resources and services over the network and this leads to maximizing efficiency. Read more
There are many organizations that manage their data quite well. Аnd on the other hand – others that either do not pay so much attention on data management, or they know it needs improvement, but are not motivated enough to take actions in this direction. Read more
As described in American National Standards Institute/ Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers an architecture is “the fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution.” It is not a new concept, in fact. Enterprise Аrchitecture has been around since the 1960s. Read more