| Doreen Evans Associates offers consulting services that focus on business area analysis, on enterprise architectures, and on requirements for automated solutions. Our areas of expertise include: |
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Business Analysis Competency
Business Analysis Competency can help you realize project success by establishing an organization that will result in business requirements that are correct, complete, unambiguous and easily understood. Whether your business analysts are located in one place, or distributed throughout the company, BAC can provide guidance in best practices. Sometimes called a Center or Requirements Excellence or a Business Analysis Center of Excellence, BAC provides a means to govern and share business analysis capabilities across your organization, centralize and standardize deliverables and project activities, and provide quality control. BAC also serves as a resource for templates, samples, tools, and guidelines for how to do the work. To read how BAC improved an organization (in this case referred to as a “ Center of Requirements Excellence ”), please read a whitepaper drafted by one of our clients |
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Requirements Elicitation & Documentation
DEA has been in the requirements business since we started our company in 1992. We use a model-driven approach because we feel that models are the best way to elicit requirements from subject matter experts, and to communicate among team members. We use a requirements tracking and management system, RequirementsLINK™, that allows us to post requirements deliverables to the web for sharing, review, and approval. |
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Business Process Improvement
We can help you whether you are in the midst of a merger, need to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley reporting requirements, are developing a new product, or simply need to understand a business process more thoroughly in order to better carry out the work of your organization. We focus on how the processing gets done, on identifying areas of opportunity, and on documenting the business rules that govern how processing decisions are made. |
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Enterprise Architecture Strategies
Whether your architecture needs are focused on data, on information technology, or on the business, DEA can help you design, document and implement an enterprise architecture. We use an architectural approach to all the work we do, so building an architecture for your business, data, or system assets is second nature. We can help you design what you need and then use our LINK suite of tools to implement the solution. |
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Operational Risk Management
As regulators continue to tighten their grip, the business community has no choice but to get serious about analyzing, documenting and improving business processes and controls. Continued exposure of corporate scandals, extensive investigation of business and accounting practices, along with increasing compliance requirements (Sarbanes-Oxley, NASD 3013, and Basel II), have forced organizations to focus their attention internally on their business processes.
To meet the need, DEA has developed an operational risk management approach and methodology that enables an organization to evaluate operational risks within the context of its business processes using a consistent framework and state of the art tools. |
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Tools for Analysis
DEA has developed a methodology (LINKProcess™) to guide the way we do projects and a suite of web-based collaboration tools. RequirementsLINK™ is built to
manage assets during the life of a project; EnterpriseLINK™ supports sharing
enterprise assets. |
