With software development costs ever on the rise, many companies are viewing outsourcing of their software development as a means to accomplish their goals without the encumbrance of maintaining an on-board staff of programmers. With this movement has come the need for professional business analyst, someone who understands the business environment, its stake holders, and who can articulate those needs to the development professionals. The movement has expanded recently to companies who are geographically dispersed inhibiting close interactions between application users and software development professionals.

The courseware in this category covers the spectrum of Analysts skills from beginner to advanced professional providing students with a wide variety of communications, data collection, assessment, and reporting skills that are critical to defining and designing applications that will satisfy the real business requirements.