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June 4, 2010 Download PDF Guang Dong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine SHANGHAI, CHINA (RPR) 06/04/10 — IBM and Guang Dong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Analyze Digital Medical Records to Understand Treatment Efficacy New Research Collaboration with South China’s Largest Hospital Aims to Improve Treatment of Kidney Disease --At the Smarter Cities Forum in Shanghai today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a collaboration with South China's largest hospital...Read Full Story

First off, if you didn’t get a chance to attend the webcast, I understand it will be available via the IIBA website in about 4 business days. Secondly, Kevin and Julian did a nice job with the presentation today and answered a lot of questions. I am glad I attended. Maybe it’s my inner geek coming to the surface, but I was really pretty excited by some of the ideas IIBA is working on and about the new and improved body of knowledge. I have to admit that I had let my membership lapse over the...Read Full Story

Which is the best Web Analytic Tool among Google Analytics and Omniture? This question has been asked by many in a lot of forums and here is the answer to your query. We are listing the major differences between Google Analytics and Omniture Search Center. Omniture is actually built for extreme performance with advanced tracking features while Google Analytics does the same but with limitations. So if you want the benefits of advanced analytics tracking, Omniture will be helpful and if all...Read Full Story

I wanted to expand a little bit more on your notion of users. In Part 2, I mentioned that there are group of users from which you can get great requirements about product. But as a Business Analyst, I don't want you to believe you are hanging at the high levels, so let's dig a bit deeper on this subject. Many of us Business Analyst fail to recognize the users of the products or services offered by an organization. We are more interested in our high level stakeholder that we don't spend much...Read Full Story

I wanted to expand a little bit more on your notion of users. In Part 2, I mentioned that there are group of users from which you can get great requirements about product. But as a Business Analyst, I don't want you to believe you are hanging at the high levels, so let's dig a bit deeper on this subject. Many of us Business Analyst fail to recognize the users of the products or services offered by an organization. We are more interested in our high level stakeholder that we don't spend much...Read Full Story

Most of us, Business Analysts, are more familiar with gathering system requirements because they are more interesting to our organizations and customers than the user requirements. But user requirements are absolutely of equal importance if not more important that the system requirements. You may ask me why is that?In this series of blogs, I am going to take you through understanding the importance of user requirements and how to gather them.If the goal of your organization is to develop...Read Full Story

Most of us, Business Analysts, are more familiar with gathering system requirements because they are more interesting to our organizations and customers than the user requirements. But user requirements are absolutely of equal importance if not more important that the system requirements. You may ask me why is that?In this series of blogs, I am going to take you through understanding the importance of user requirements and how to gather them.If the goal of your organization is to develop...Read Full Story

Have you ever been in an elicitation meeting and the users refers to some functionality in your product and you have absolutely no idea what they are talking about? Well, this has happened to me a few times. I was thrown in with the high level description of the product but had never seen the real product because the organization had only the "in-development" products. And, as a débutante in business analysis, I really didn't know what I was doing most of the time. But I have learned my...Read Full Story

Have you ever been in an elicitation meeting and the users refers to some functionality in your product and you have absolutely no idea what they are talking about? Well, this has happened to me a few times. I was thrown in with the high level description of the product but had never seen the real product because the organization had only the "in-development" products. And, as a débutante in business analysis, I really didn't know what I was doing most of the time. But I have learned my...Read Full Story

Call it Use Case, Scenarios, User Stories...etc depending on the methodology used by your organization, you have to create some kind of scenarios. When getting to know your product, you should have some high level scenarios developed with the help of other department. Don't forget, that this is an iterative process. You may develop some high level scenarios and then refine them as you are learning more. Scenarios are stories about the personas you just created. These stories describes how...Read Full Story