Support for business and technical analysis

AyMINE analysis supports project activities and records necessary for effective design and development of new products, software and hardware systems. The module facilitates work for teams that analyse requirements and design solution. Regardless is the product is an automotive item or a new business service, at the beginning should be well-defined requirements and are collected and analysed.

Requirement analysis

Module provides

• Collection of internal requirements and documentation of customer input requirements (including regulatory obligations)
• Analysis of requirements and their breakdown into sub-requirements
• Requirements traceability
• Management of special features (e.g. isolation of requirements with safety or reliability implications)
• Synchronization with the Enterprise Architect modelling tool (the Sparx system tool). Support for requirements synchronization, synchronization to ArchiMate and SysML models.

Requirements analysis is linked to products and services from Asset Management and Project Management. This makes it a natural part of projects and creates documentation for new products and services.

Types of requirements

Requirements analysis can be used according to the type of the project. The system supports:

• User input requirements
• External and internal obligations that the requirements must meet.
• Business and project requirements
• System requirements
• Software, hardware and mechanical requirements in general
• Testing and quality requirements in general

Service analysis

The module also supports record keeping with regard to the requirements of the ISO 20000 standard. Its implementation is further supported by a methodology. Within the framework of service analysis and accounting, the module supports:

• Business records – Basic records without details
• Evidence for ISO 2000 – Service records for service management needs according to the ISO 20000 standard require more detailed documentation, including the linkage of services to suppliers and other services.
• System analysis of services – Analysis for the purpose of designing system support for services, particularly by information technology. At this level, the analysis goes to the level of describing data entities, functionalities and system interfaces.
  AyMINE uses a layered breakdown (business – application – technical layer). Documentation for each level of detail is distinguished but all levels are interlinked using the traceability relations.

AyMINE supports service management according to ISO 20000 not only in the area of records, but in all necessary processes.

Analysis as a service

The analysis in AyMINE is designed to serve not only for the actual recording of services, but also as a requirements analysis tool. AyMINE thus fully supports the use within implementation projects.

Modelling support in Enterprise Architect

Analytical information about products and services can be modelled in Enterprise Architect using:

• SysML system modelling language. SysML is designed for system modelling and is an important part of the ISO 26262 or Automotive SPICE methodology of work.
• ArchiMate language for modelling business services, processes. ArchiMate is used for enterprise architecture models and its support is mainly used for business models and information systems design.
  AyMINE supports data synchronization so that models are linked to product documentation in both SysML and AyMINE. Therefore, there is no need to rewrite or manually import anything into Enterprise Architect.

More information about imports can be found at EA and AyMINE connector documentation.