Introduction to Process Automation › Phase I: Requirements Analysis

Phase I: Requirements Analysis

This phase focuses on what information to gather and which issues to address before you design a CA Process Automation management package or process. Your specific sites and management solutions could require additional tasks.

Include the following tasks in a typical requirements analysis:

• Identify processes to automate.
• Identify where the processes run.
• Identify steps in the processes and describe the outcomes of each step.
• Identify the interdependencies.
• Identify the external dependencies.
• Identify the runtime constraints.

Good candidates for process automation meet one or more of the following initiation requirements:

• You can identify multiple, often interdependent, tasks.
• You can identify overlapping resource requirements.
• The process can run over the network or on different platforms.
• You can apply date and time constraints to schedule the process.
• Other processes, applications, or users can trigger the process.
• System or database administrators, operators, or other users can run the process on demand.