Aquima Business View offers full scale impact analysis of changes in law and regulation.

 

Everest, supplier of consultancy and software solution, introduces Aquima Business View, a new component in her software suite Aquima. Aquima Business View enables knowledge intensive organisations to quickly come up with impact analysis with ease. When there are changes in law and legislation, Aquima Business View will show exactly which components in the IT landscape are influenced and what the impact would be. The software extends on this by  indication exactly where and how the changes need to be implemented. Through this detailed impact analysis realistic estimates can be made concerning the time and costs that a change in legislation brings along. Administrators can make changes to the system, without intervention from the IT department. With Aquima Business View Everest is the first software developer that combines impact analysis with the integration of mutations.

Procedures concerning the implementation of changes in law and legislation that are not handled in a structural manner, are time consuming and very often do not deliver the desired results. It is usually the moment when changes are implemented that it becomes clear that functionalities in the requirements have not described clearly or extensively enough during the design phase, and no attention has been paid to the location or structure of certain information. As such, it is not clear for administrators how business requirements are implemented in the underlying technique by the IT department. As a consequence. all system components need to be checked for a possible impact brought forward be the effect of the change in legislation. Once again, the business is dependent on IT.

Mark Mastop, Manager Product Development & Innovation at Everest: "Knowledge intensive organisations continuously need to deal with changes in the amount of information that their organisations are dependent on. That is why requirements and applications need to be updated and changed. Moreover, many processes are cross functional, which makes the impact of changes even bigger. With Aquima Business View this becomes manageable. Due to the combination of integration and interaction in one system, a link is created between law and legislation analysis and the implementation hereof.

Availability
The Aquima software suite with Aquima Business View is now available for both the J2EE and the .NET platform and is based on open XML technology. Also, integration possibilities are standard available with various additional products such as Microsoft SharePoint Portal & Biztalk and IBM Websphere Portal & Process, as is the integration with various Open Source solutions.