IIBA Toronto

Software As A Service (SaaS)
& Business Analysis

Building Clarity and Cohesion

Presenters

Brigitte M

tba

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Come join us for an evening of business analysis community and networking as you learn and review parts of the IIBA BABOK 

This 1 1/2 hour session delivers

1.5 CDU credit hours for IIBA Re-certification

Wednesday, December 9,  8:00 pm

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Overview

The Promise

• Speed to deployment
• More and more features
• Remote work

The Reality

• Shadow IT
• Impact of excessive and duplicate SaaS applications
• SaaS Waste of features and functions not required
• The business analysis practitioner turns on and off switches
• A high churn rate of SaaS applications in your organization
• Long-term active engagement of SaaS application vendor and SaaS technology services partner
• SaaS applications increasingly become more sophisticated and complex

The Business Analysis Practitioner

• Switching the business analysis focus to the earlier phases in a SaaS lifecycle
• Understand the business objectives, technology value proposition and architecture requirements
• Increase product success and sustainability, stakeholder satisfaction and actual desired user adoption.
• Matching one of the main value propositions SaaS promotes of speed to deployment, with the reality of that stands in the way of a successful life cycle.
• Address the questions every organization should take the time to answer and key activities to perform.
• Work with resources to support the delivery of a SaaS project to scope, plan, manage and deliver the initiative.
• Engage using a proactive and collaborative approach with the SaaS application vendor, SaaS technology services partner, business stakeholders, end users and IT assets.

Stages for Adopting a SaaS Application

• Discovery / Business Need
• Aligning to Strategy and Existing SaaS Strategy
• Requirements Gathering
• Planning
• Initial Setup / Migration Testing
• Configure / Integrate / Migrate
• Post Migration Testing
• Training and Adoption
• Active and Lessons Learned

Participate online with others in the business analysis community.