BUSINESS RULE ANALYSIS

Introduction
The Business Rule Analysis is part of the Maintenance Services. It provides detailed insight in the business knowledge embedded in a software application.

The Business Rule Analysis serves the application stakeholder who needs to fully understand the business rules implemented in the application, e.g. to be able to maintain or migrate the application or to clean existing data collections.
Keywords: business rules, business knowledge, program understanding, automated source code analysis, data cleansing, application migration.

The audience is ICT management and maintenance/migration teams.

Purpose of the service
The main purpose of the Business Rule Analysis is to extract business knowledge from the application. It builds on the Baseline Assessment which establishes a knowledge base for all application characteristics, and services to identify all business knowledge in the application.

The Business Rule Analysis is needed in the case migration of an application is contemplated and provides a means to validate existing data collections (data cleansing) and to be used as input for functional specifications for new applications or ERP.

Required input	Process overview	Output
- Customer’s logical data model - Application source code - Application   design/maintenance   documentation	- Interview stakeholders to define scope of analysis - Intake of source code and documentation - Inventory of source code and documentation - Baseline Assessment - Technical Assessment - Business Rule Analysis   Data Scanning   Synonym Analysis   Logic Analysis - (Business Data Validation) - Publish Business Rule Report - Publish Business Rule Website	- Application overview, indicating   Languages used   Inventory of software components   Inventory of documentation   Size estimates - Technical Assessment   Analyzability - Business Rules   Business Rule Website   Business Rule Report

Characteristics	Advantages
- Identification of business rules - Full traceability to source code - Highly Automated - Processing time, 4-8 weeks	- Full insight in business knowledge embedded in application - Complete - Formalized - Cost effective - Based on automated, repeatable process

For more information about Business Rule Analysis please contact us and/or read the whitepaper in the downloads section.