Business Analysis

OCS’s Business Analysts are ready to help your business achieve its goals. With our broad range of experience across multiple industries, such as music publishing, automotive, insurance, and many more, we will connect your business stakeholders and software solutions teams, pragmatically applying modern business analysis techniques, across the full project development lifecycle. We are able to offer Business Analysts part-time or full-time, in order to assist with the peaks and troughs of your project’s lifecycle.

Our Business Analysts provide both the technical and personal skills required to offer the biggest benefits to your business, including:

Team Working
Communication
Problem Solving
Relationship Building
Critical Thinking
Commercial Awareness
Industry specific knowledge

Business Analysis/Analyst Services

Understand and document business objectives and requirements
Prioritise requirements using techniques such as MoSCoW (Must have, Should have, Could have, Won’t have)
Review, analysis and definition of business process models and workflows
Business Systems, Data and Functional Analysis
Identify and analyse solutions to meet business objectives
Recommendation of process architectures and designs
Package evaluation and selection
Assistance in the design, development and deployment process
Adherence to your company’s software delivery methodology, whether Waterfall, Agile, or a combination of both
Acceptance test, strategy, planning and implementation
Workshop facilitation

Key Benefits of choosing OCS

Our Business Analysts are deployed in a flexible way that suits your business:

As part of a larger OCS-run project, or directly into your team
Available for long- or short-term projects, part time or full time
We have nearly 40 years’ experience of IT and business, translating ideas into practical solutions
We bring specialised knowledge of many business domains, including Retail, Manufacturing, Entertainment, Automotive, Financial and Insurance

Examples of Business Analysis assignments

GDPR Implementation

OCS deployed a Business Analyst to assist Suzuki’s Data Protection Officer by conducting interviews and workshops with senior managers across the entire UK operation to identify the use and storage or personal data. This was processed by an external legal specialist which identified areas for concern. The Business Analyst then worked with the client’s DPO to design and implement new processes to ensure compliance.

Business Process Mapping

A Business Analyst has been requested for various process mapping exercises, including:

Documenting disparate processes across multiple independent departments, used to manage the supply and refresh of internal company cars. This lead to a recommendation to implement a workflow management tool to handle the entire process centrally.
Building a centralised repository of Suzuki’s systems (applications, infrastructure, and interfaces) for the IT department.

Label Copy and Scheduling

A team of four Business Analysts has been integrated seamlessly into the client’s existing team. The team provides requirements analysis, specification, documentation, testing and support throughout the Software Delivery Lifecycle, for several bespoke applications used to manage the data, planning and release scheduling for a huge music and video catalogue.

Access Rights Auditing

OCS provided a Business Analyst to temporarily expand the client’s existing BA capability that was fully utilised on another project. The OCS Business Analyst was embedded within the development team and was tasked with writing user stories using a structured plain-text syntax, Gherkin. This was achieved by analysing the existing system that managed user access rights auditing and reporting, including extracting the existing SQL scripts for the developers to replicate in the replacement system. The Business Analyst then tested new development, ensuring it was fit for purpose.

For further information regarding OCS' Business Analysis services please email info@ocs-consulting.com or call 020 8731 4335.