Analysis can be described as “working out what has to be done”. All software products automate a process. Software created by London Software House is normally constructed to automate a business process.

Every business process must have one or many inputs, one or many outputs and a set of governing business procedures.

The analysis stage is primarily concerned in formalising the requirements of the client by:

• Conducting a feasibility study
• Creating the specification of requirements
• Analysing the existing system:
• Capturing the current physical process
• Analysing the current physical process, creating a current logical process
• Removing inefficiencies and redundancies from the existing system
• Formalising the new requirements of the system
• Gathering and merging the new requirements with existing process.

A specification of requirements is then created. This captures what the client needs from the new system. This may include new features, enhancing legacy features, removing features or changing the underlying technology.