Gadrian: A better world of business analysis and knowledge management'

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Gadrian Overview

• Gadrian A better world of business analysis and
  knowledge management.
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• Today there is a need for tools that rapidly move
  and focus thinking in a business to action. Here
  are some reasons for this
• Awareness that better analysis efforts up front
  yield larger downstream benefits
• Analysis results and value get lost in the
  implementation
• Complicated system environments (legacy,
  packages, databases etc.) require more careful
  analysis
• Failures and partial successes in current
  application implementations cause high costs
• Tools are needed to supplement analysis skills
• Gadrian in a nutshell Gadrian is a desktop
  portal response to this need. It is focused on
  resolving analysis issues, building analysis
  value and accelerating the analysis process.
  Gadrian supports modeling features typical of the
  analysis discipline such as cross impact
  matrices, simple flows, topic structures and
  others.
• Gadrian is the result of a frustration with
  current tools used by analysts and consultants
  for analysis such as spreadsheets and word
  processors with the more recent addition of Lotus
  Notes and web search tools.
• Businesses constantly create, revise and replace
  their business models with alternate views so
  they can come at a problem from different points
  of view. Until Gadrian, there was no easy way to
  manage business models and coordinate the
  analysis results.
• Gadrian also does knowledge positioning to help a
  worker function much more efficiently, a feature
  useful in such efforts as application
  integration. Gadrian shapes the implementation
  envelope of a solution and as a result reduces
  downstream costs.

A company can also embed its own methodology in
Gadrian for repeatable performance results such
as in CRM, ERP, EAI or data business intelligence
projects. 
Gadrian improves work at the desktop.   The value
of Gadrian and especially its descriptive model
types and knowledge linking, is in its ability to
provide an integrative metaphor at the desktop
the blends managing the knowledge of interest of
both the worker and the enterprise.   The key to
successful business analysis is descriptive
modeling. A descriptive model is a group of
language phrases with relationships between the
phrases such as a sequence of steps describing
work or a topical outline. The importance and
awareness of models has increased recently due to
the large use of spreadsheet and process analysis
tools. The benefit of this awareness phenomena
is that better and more useful analysis and
knowledge management software such as Gadrian is
evolving for the desktop as well as the
enterprise.
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• Gadrian provides people with a tool to leverage
  their mind. 
• For professional services firms it is a business
  analyzer and problem solver
• Compare and contrast enterprise business,
  application package and technology architectures
• Perform impact analysis of alternative strategies
• Identify opportunities and solve problems
• Uncover new facts during your problem analysis

Gadrian is the ideal software tool to use to
integrate several business analysis techniques
based on descriptive modeling

• For the individual worker in a business it helps
  you organize your work and position knowledge to
  do it better Gadrian acts as a personal desktop
  portal
• Integrate the application of diverse tools for a
  user
• Process automation for legacy systems
• Provision workflow nodes across the enterprise
• Service/Process application integration at the
  users desktop

Gadrian is the desktop complement to enterprise
knowledge management.   A business has many items
of knowledge, workers need to locate and connect
to that knowledge, much of it is at the workers'
desktop. Today, analysis and knowledge
management are part of every workers job.
Gadrian is one of the few software tools
specifically designed to assist people in the
basics of analysis and in positioning knowledge
to increase their productivity.

• For medium to large organizations Gadrian is used
  to distribute best practices and methods to
  people in a business for repeatable results
  acting as a best practice enabler
• Virtual teams work and are supported from a
  common viewpoint
• Customize application integration to your
  specific needs
• Standardize CRM, ERP and SCM implementations
• Organize knowledge transfer and/or collaborative
  work

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Analytics, Inc. 401 South LaSalle Street Chicago,
Illinois 60605 Phone [phone] Fax
312-786-4767 www.eanalytics.com