Enterprise analysis focuses on understanding business needs and strategic goals to identify initiatives that help meet those goals. It involves identifying business needs, clarifying definitions of needs, and defining feasible solutions. Key tasks are defining business needs by understanding organizational goals and problems, assessing capabilities gaps, determining solution approaches, and defining the business case and solution scope. The benefits include better alignment with strategic goals, improved planning, decision-making, risk mitigation, and integration of resources.

1. Enterprise Analysis

2. Enterprise analysis is defined as focusing “on
understanding the needs of the business as a
whole, its strategic direction, and identifying
initiatives that will allow a business to meet
those strategic goals, it helps in understanding
the positives and negatives of a particular
concept with respect to reference". Enterprise
Analysis describes how business analysts identify
a business need, refine and clarify the definition
of that need, and define a solution scope that
can feasibly be implemented by the business.

3. Enterprise Analysis Inputs:
1.Assumptions and constrains
2.Business goals and objectives
3.Enterprise Architecture
4.Organisational process assists
5.Requirement
6.Solution Performance and Assessments
7.Stakeholder Concern

4. Tasks:
Define business need : Understanding the goal of an
organization to identify requirements.
 Why is this project initiated?
 What are the current problems?
 With this project how many problems could be solved?
 What are the resources required?
 How much organizational changes is required to adopt
this technology?
 Time frame to recover ROI(Return On Investment)?
 How to identify stakeholders?
1.Assess capabilities gaps
2.Determine solution approach
3.Define solution scope
4.Define business Case

5. Organization Goal Techniques
 Bench marking
 Brainstorming
 Business Rule Analysis
 Focus Group
 Functional Decomposition
 Root Cause Analysis

6. Outputs:
Business Case
Business Need
Required Capabilities
Solution Approach
Solution Scope

7. Benefits:
 Better business alignment with strategic
goals
 Improved planning
 Improved decision making
 Risk mitigation
 Improved integration of resources -
people, processes, and tools.