New Webinar Covers Business Analyst Empowerment, Hosted by voke, ...

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TORONTO -- (Marketwire) -- 08/20/08 -- Tomorrow, August 21st, vokewill unveil in detail the results of the voke Market Snapshot(TM)report on the Role of the Business Analyst in a webinar with Blueprint and HP. In this exclusive webinar, tobe held at 11am PT/ 2pm ET on August 21st, participants will learnabout the emerging role of the Business Analyst, and how to succeedand deliver value to the organization in this role.
Today more than ever, software projects must complete on time, onbudget, and need to work seamlessly with existing applications.Global 2000 IT organizations are under tremendous pressure tomaximize the impact of distributed resources in an effort to alignIT and the business.
In this webinar, analyst Theresa Lanowitz of voke will explain howthe Business Analyst is fast becoming the critical stakeholder to ensuring business andIT alignment by becoming the champion over project requirements.Lanowitz will discuss the recently unveiled voke Business Analystresearch effort that includes:
"In a world where software is growing in importance toorganizations of every kind, business analysts are of increasingimportance to any enterprise, as they are the key conduit indelivering satisfaction by effectively defining and managingrequirements to IT," said Theresa Lanowitz, founder of voke. "Todaymore than ever, the business analyst is critical to the success ofthe IT organization, and the business as a whole."
The webinar will also explore how empowering business analysts witha "requirements lifecycle" -- visual requirements definitioncombined with risk-based requirements management -- can ensurefinal application functionality maps directly to business needs.
"Business Analyst empowerment is a strategic imperative of Fortune500 business organizations," said Matthew Morgan, Chief MarketingOfficer at Blueprint. "The voke study articulates thatorganizations must optimize their requirements definition andmanagement processes in order to make global IT projectssuccessful. Distributed teams are here to stay, and a lifecycleapproach to better business/IT collaboration delivers innovation,value, and efficiency."
The webinar will conclude with a live demonstration of the " requirements lifecycle " and discuss the ROI from a case study from a Fortune 500financial organization that leveraged this approach to cutrequirements definition time by 15%, cut test case creation time by80%, reduce project waste/rework by 70%, and provided new levels oforganizational agility for risk management.
To register for the webinar, please visit: http://www.requirementsnetwork.com/node/830 .
About Blueprint
Named a "Cool Vendor" in Application Development by leading analystfirm Gartner, Blueprint aligns business and IT teams by deliveringthe industry's leading requirements suite designed specifically forthe business analyst. Blueprint solutions empower analyst teams toeliminate requirements misunderstanding by capturing, validating,and delivering precise business requirements to local ordistributed IT application project teams. Blueprint's product linefunctions as a collaborative system for the requirements lifecycle,including requirements elicitation, elaboration, validation, andacceptance. Blueprint is a global provider, with presence in theUnited States, Canada, and in Europe. For more information onBlueprint, visit http://www.blueprintsys.com .