When it comes to making the right IT decision systems analysis places a crucial role. Systems analysis is as the name states the analysis of systems. Whether you are planning to purchase a solution where no IT system exists or upgrading a current IT system a systems analysis should be conducted. Systems analysts may follow have many different steps they undertake in an analysis, but they generally follow a small set of steps. The first is to (1) identify the problem, then (2) identify alternative solutions, (3) fact finding, (4) analysis, and (5) evaluation. (Continue Reading)