Business Process Analysis: Improving Efficiency in System Development

This essay delves into the significance of Business Process Analysis (BPA) in the realm of Information Technology, particularly its impact on system development. BPA is defined as the examination of business operations, categorized into processes or interrelated tasks, observed throughout their lifecycle. The essay highlights how BPA utilizes methodologies and tools to enhance system monitoring, efficiency, and productivity. It further explores the integration of information systems and people within business processes, emphasizing the use of flow charts, diagramming, and benchmarking to analyze and improve scalability and performance. The discussion extends to the role of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in modeling and implementing business processes, focusing on the dynamics of information systems. Ultimately, the essay concludes that BPA is crucial for developing high-quality IT systems, emphasizing considerations like technology, ethics, and issue resolution to ensure smoother operations and increased efficiency.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................2
2. Discussion....................................................................................................................................2
2.1 Brief Description of Business Process Analysis....................................................................2
2.2 Impact of BPA in Systems Development..............................................................................3
3. Conclusion...................................................................................................................................4
4. References....................................................................................................................................6

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1. Introduction
The Business Process Analysis (BPA) could be defined as the analysis of several kind of
operations of the business that could be classified in the forms of several kinds of processes or a
series of interrelated tasks. In these kinds of tasks, the process of observation would normally be
revolve around certain ways along which the process would concern along a life cycle
(Rosemann & vom Brocke, 2015). Since there is a series of interrelated tasks and activities
within the whole processes that would aim towards a particular objective, hence the business
process analysis make the proper use of various methodologies and tools in order to view the
processes in several ways. This process of business analysis would be highly necessary for
keeping monitor over the systems, increase the level of efficiency, productivity and many other
things (Scarborough, 2016).
2. Discussion
2.1 Brief Description of Business Process Analysis
In the Information Technology sector, there are various kinds of processes that require
the use of various kinds of important tools in relation with the business process analysis. The
processes of business integrate various kinds of information systems and people. These vital
products based on software and the offered services help the leaders of businesses for the major
purpose of analyzing the different ways in which the processes of business could be processed
(Oliveira, T., Thomas & Espadanal, 2014). The different ways in which business leaders design
the flow of tasks within the business are through making of flow charts, diagramming,
benchmarking, advanced methods of visual interfaces and other kinds of analytic tools that are
able to measure the level of scalability and performance. These kind of tools include the use of
several features that would be connected to an interface would be extremely helpful for

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processing the internal systems (Rosemann & vom Brocke, 2015). This would be helpful for
showing the ways in which the various processes of business could be performed. With the aid of
these form of resources, the makers of decision could be able to make much more appropriated
forms of decisions and various forms of informed choices about the maintenance of the processes
of business that would be helpful in making of future operations (Vukšić, Bach & Popovič,
2013).
2.2 Impact of BPA in Systems Development
The main objective of BPA is based on service oriented architecture (SOA). The main
idea of BPA is to model, implement and thus keep a high level of monitor over the processes of
business. Most of the business process entail several kinds of functions or services into their
operations. SOA could be defined as a technological approach for implementing the processes of
business (Beuren, Ferreira & Miguel, 2013). In the process of modeling of the behavior of the
system, the BPA is used for modeling of the dynamics of information system rather than
focusing on the dynamics of the real world. The different kinds of the system based in the real
world that are based on concepts and the models of interaction, which constitute a major part of
the real world follow the nature of the objects and the associated relationships. The BPA and
SOA are the most discussed topics in the prospect of business initiatives. The impact of business
processes within the development of systems is that they promise the companies for providing
help in the creation of new value based on the existing investments (Vukšić, Bach & Popovič,
2013). The use of business processes within the systems development would be very much
useful for reinventing the existing systems based on development and thus be able to bring in
new efficiency within the processes of work in the sector.

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The systems development life cycle constitutes a part, which is popularly known as
System Design or Development. It is in this phase where the designer of the entire system would
take the notes of the discussed requirement specifications in a proper place and would then
translate them into a specific based technical requirements. In this phase, the design for the user
interface, inputs for the data and the corresponding outputs, database and the reporting of the
documentation would be performed. This would majorly help the programmer for creating the
actual system (Jacobs, Chase & Lummus, 2014).
The business processes could be defined as a series of actions that could be carried out
for developing high end systems and impact the process of development (Laudon & Laudon,
2016). These processes within the business could aid the development of systems as they would
be able to cut the processes or phases in which the system configurations would be developed.
They could divide the interrelated organizational substructure and form a micro-substructure that
would contain the related tasks. The business processes thus covers a wide range of activities
within the development of systems within a particular department of the development of systems.
The use of business process analysis would also include the use of various kinds of methods,
tools and techniques that would be able to support the entire process of design, enactment of the
final designed systems and analysis over the processes of operation within the business (Chen et
al., 2014).
3. Conclusion
Hence from the above discussion, it could be concluded that the use of business process
analysis within the development of high quality systems in the department of IT is a major
prospect. An organisation should consider the high need for developing high quality of systems
within the processes of business. Various consideration such as the kinds of technologies used,

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the ethics of business processes and the discovered issues should be taken into consideration for
the development of the systems. The impact of business processes plays a major role in the
development of high quality of systems. Hence there should be a proper analysis of the various
business process, which would be helpful for developing the systems. This would be extremely
helpful for bringing efficiency in the work processes and ensure a smoother running of the
systems within the IT systems.

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