RESUME ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

Definition of Analysis

Analysis is conducting an investigation and study of a subject and describing the

subject so that the smallest component particles are found, while the analyst is the
person who performs the analysis.
The Importance of Starting System Analysis:

a. Problem-solving: the old system doesn't work as needed. For this reason,
analysis is needed to improve the system so that it can function as
needed.
b. New needs: there are new needs in the organization or environment so that
modifications or additional information systems are needed to support the
organization.
c. Implementing a new idea or technology.
d. Improve overall system performance.

Sources of Learnable Facts For Systems Analysis:

a. Existing system
b. Other internal sources: people, documents, and people-organizational or function

relationships exist

c. External sources: interfaces with other systems, seminars, vendors, journals, textbooks and

other information or knowledge that is outside the system

Analysis Framework:

a. Analysis of the decision-making level (organizational management): analyze the

organization, its functions and the required information and the resulting
information.
b. Analysis of information flow: identify what information is needed, who
needs it, where it comes from.
c. Analysis of inputs and outputs.
Analysis result report

The analysis report must contain:

a. Description of reasons and scope (limits) of analysis

b. Description of the existing system and its operation.

c. Description of objectives (objectives) and system constraints

d. Description of unresolved issues and potential problems

e. A description of the assumptions taken by the systems analyst during the analysis

process

f. Recommendations for new systems and their requirements for initial design
Projection of expected resource requirements and costs included in the design
of the new system or modifying it

Eligibility aspect categories:

a. Technical feasibility: hardware and software feasibility.

b. Economic feasibility: whether there are advantages or disadvantages, the organization's usual

operational efficiency.

c. Feasibility of operation: relates to operating procedures and people running

the organization
d. Schedule feasibility: can use scheduling models such as PERT and GANTT
CHART. Is the development schedule feasible or not.
Definition of Design

According to John Bruch & Gary Grudnitski, system design can be defined as
the drawing, planning and sketching or arrangement of several separate
elements into a unified whole and functioning.

Knowledge Elements Related to the Design Process:

a. Organizational resources: based on 5 elements of the organization, namely: man, machines,

material, money and methods.

b. Information requirements from users: information obtained from users during the

system analysis phase.

c. System requirements: results of system analysis.

d. Data processing methods, whether: manual, electromechanical, punched card, or

computer base.

e. Data operations. There are several basic data operations, such as: capture, classify, arrange,

summarize, calculate, store, retrieve, reproduce and disseminate.

f. Design tools, such as: dfd, dcd, dd, decision table etc.

Basic Steps In The Design Process:

a. Defining system goals (defining system goals), not only based on user
information, but also in the form of a study of the abstraction and
characteristics of the overall system information needs.
b. Build a conceptual model (develop a conceptual model), in the form of an
overall system description that describes the functional unit as a system
unit.
c. Applying organizational constraints (applying organizational constraints).
Applying system constraints to obtain the most optimal system. Organizational
elements are a constraint, while the functions that must be optimized are:
performance, reliability, cost, installation schedule, maintenability, flexibility,
potential growth, life expectancy. The model for the optimal system can be
described as a model containing: system requirements and
 organizational resources as inputs; the weight factor consists of the above optimal

functions; and the total value that must be optimized from the weight factor.

d. Defines data processing activities (defining data processing activities).

e. This definition can be done with the input-process-output approach.

Basic Principles of Design

Basic Design Principles Include:

a. Monolithic system design. Emphasis on system integration. Which resources can

be integrated to obtain an effective system, especially in terms of cost.
b. Modular system design. Emphasis is placed on breaking down functions that have

low independence into separate modules (functional subsystems) making it easier

for us to concentrate on designing per module. An information system can be

broken down into 7 functional subsystems: data collection, data processing, file

updates, data storage, data retrieval, information reports and data processing

controls.

Thus Analysis and Design can be concluded as the definition of functional

requirements to prepare the implementation design in the form of drawing,
planning and sketching or arrangement of several separate elements into a
unified whole and functioning.